Bug#1001661: Info received (Bug#1001661: Info received ((no subject)))

2022-04-04 Thread nick black
wait...even the most recent of these logs shows that it is testing notcurses 3.0.4, which indeed had this timing problem on input, which was fixed in notcurses 3.0.5: Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main notcurses 3.0.4+dfsg.1-1 (dsc) [3,148 B]

Bug#1001661: Info received ((no subject))

2022-04-04 Thread nick black
i'm tracking this upstream at https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/2645

Bug#1001661: notcurses: flaky autopkgtests on armhf

2022-04-04 Thread nick black
i'm pretty sure raspberry pi is armhf, so i ought be able to dig that one RPi4 i've got up and explore this. if we can reproduce the problem interactively, it ought fall pretty quickly.

Bug#1001661: (no subject)

2022-04-03 Thread nick black
note that armhf is a 32-bit arm7 machine, unlike arm64 which is arm8. might be time to revisit some assumptions unconsciously made involving processor width.

Bug#1005778: pypandoc: diff for NMU version 1.7.2+ds0-1.1

2022-02-28 Thread nick black
> However, I don't think that adding lmodern to the package Depends is the > right solution, as that would lead to parts of tex (admittely, a small > part, but still) having to be installed on the system, which is not > required by pandoc itself. > The right solution, I believe, is to add lmodern

Bug#1005778: pypandoc: diff for NMU version 1.7.2+ds0-1.1

2022-02-28 Thread nick black
. +Closes: #1005778 + + -- Nick Black Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:12:41 -0500 + pypandoc (1.7.2+ds0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. diff -Nru pypandoc-1.7.2+ds0/debian/control pypandoc-1.7.2+ds0/debian/control --- pypandoc-1.7.2+ds0/debian/control 2021-12-29 05:19:10.0 -0500

Bug#997845: Info received (Bug#997845: growlight: autopkgtest regression: log repeats until it times out)

2022-01-10 Thread nick black
notcurses 3.0.4+dfsg.1-1 ought be migrating to testing soon, and if there is any love in this world, it will resolve the continued failures. the most recent i see is from today, still using notcurses 3.0.3. i added several similar unit tests to the notcurses suite, and managed to reproduce the

Bug#997845: bug 997845

2022-01-04 Thread nick black
exciting results! i wrapped up a similar invocation and threw it into my notcurses drone CI, and there i fail exactly as i do within the debian CI (i.e. we never terminate, though we don't soak the CPU). https://drone.dsscaw.com:4443/dankamongmen/notcurses/10240/1/2 i ought now be able to

Bug#997845: bug 997845

2022-01-04 Thread nick black
alright, i might have found the root cause. when we declare EOF, we're not necessarily setting the input poll fd high. as a result, if the EOF comes at the end of an input burst, and we rely on such notifications, we miss it. https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/2521 has more details.

Bug#997845: Info received (Bug#997845: growlight: autopkgtest regression: log repeats until it times out)

2022-01-03 Thread nick black
wait, i just might have reproduced a failure. it doesn't look like our failure in autopkgtests, but this is an assert() blowing up, and i'm not certain we build with those. if not, maybe we're hitting a case that locks up. let's hope so! this would once again presumably be a notcurses fix. the

Bug#997845: Info received (Bug#997845: growlight: autopkgtest regression: log repeats until it times out)

2022-01-03 Thread nick black
further investigation: i uploaded -4 with a change to simply redirect input from /dev/null, rather than echoing 'blockdev -v' into the process. the result was pretty much the exact same: we don't see the input show up, and we get a time out. of course, attempting to reproduce this locally leads to

Bug#1003009: notcurses FTBFS: notcurses-ffi exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere

2022-01-02 Thread nick black
this is addressed in more detail at https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/2519. i expect to have this fixed within the hour. sorry for the annoyance.

Bug#1003009: notcurses FTBFS: notcurses-ffi exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere

2022-01-02 Thread nick black
reopen 1003009 i added -DBUILD_FFI_LIBRARY=off with the intention of no longer building these three shared objects. looking at it now, however, this CMake variable doesn't actually seem to guard their building and installation, and thus it will not have the desired effect. i'm fixing this

Bug#1003009: notcurses FTBFS: notcurses-ffi exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere

2022-01-02 Thread nick black
thanks, this ought be fixed in an hour or two.

Bug#997845: growlight: autopkgtest regression: log repeats until it times out

2021-12-26 Thread nick black
i can happily report that notcurses 3.0.2+dfsg.1-3 is passing autopkgtests, after resolving the issue at https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/2505 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1001122: Processed: Re: Bug#1001122: src:growlight: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

2021-12-21 Thread nick black
well, as i noted above, this use case certainly isn't the standard way growlight will be used (although it's a valid one, and one worth fixing -- this was a valuable exercise, and i appreciate autopkgtests spotting this regression!). so it's not very important to users...but at the same time, it

Bug#1001122: Processed: Re: Bug#1001122: src:growlight: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

2021-12-21 Thread nick black
if i don't need the versioned dep, there is -- so far as i can tell -- no reason to upload a new growlight at all, unless i need do so to retrigger the autopkgtests and allow a transition to testing. (sorry for my ignorance--i'm still applying for DD) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1001122: Processed: Re: Bug#1001122: src:growlight: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

2021-12-21 Thread nick black
> I don't think you need the versioned depends really. Or did I miss > something? well, if you have an older version of notcurses, you're going to run into this growlight problem, so "solving" this problem for Debian would seem to me to require the versioned dep? i'm sure you're much more

Bug#997845: Bug#1001122: src:growlight: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

2021-12-19 Thread nick black
Control: reopen -1 oh no! =[ well, at least this can be my primary focus now that notcurses iii is out. i believe i've already provided https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/issues/153, but that's the tracking issue upstream. attempts to reproduce this locally have thus far been less than

Bug#997845: Your mail

2021-12-15 Thread nick black
i can happily report that the FTPmasters accepted notcurses 3.0.0 into experimental today, and thus the transition bringing it into unstable ought begin. once that hits, i'll be landing on this with both feet. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#997845: Your mail

2021-12-14 Thread nick black
ought i upload a -4 with a changelog entry marking the bug closed? i didn't mark it closed in the changelog because i explicitly wanted the bug left open. sorry for any confusion -- i'm certainly not trying to work around this issue in the long term by reducing testing =]. i just know that it's

Bug#997845: Your mail

2021-12-14 Thread nick black
you are correct in all of your assumptions =]. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1001122: src:growlight: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

2021-12-06 Thread nick black
i went ahead and uploaded growlight 1.2.38 to experimental last evening. it doesn't build now, of course, due to a dep on missing libnotcurses3. i've asked my Application Manager (i'm currently applying for DD status) to sponsor an upload of the latter to experimental+NEW, so that i can begin the

Bug#1001122: src:growlight: fails to migrate to testing for too long: autopkgtest regression

2021-12-04 Thread nick black
Thanks. I actually just cut growlight 1.2.38 literally forty minutes ago, and have prepared it for upload. Unfortunately, it's dependent on the new libnotcurses3, which needs to get through NEW. I'm not yet a DD, so I'm hoping my Application Manager will be willing to sponsor an upload of

Bug#997845: (no subject)

2021-10-25 Thread nick black
i'm not sure whether the "forwarded" tag applies in this case, but i've created an upstream bug (i am the upstream author) at https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/issues/153. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#997845: (no subject)

2021-10-25 Thread nick black
Package: growlight Version: 1.2.37-2 Tags: upstream Yep, I'm looking into it. For whatever reason, it's not exiting despite input having ended. I've tried reproducing this failure locally, but have not yet been able. I hope to fix it for 1.2.38. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-16 Thread nick black
hurrah, it would appear that 1.2.31 is running successfully on the autopkgtest servers (all show as passed save ppc64el, which shows as passed here: https://ci.debian.net/packages/g/growlight/testing/ppc64el/).

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-16 Thread Nick Black
ok, the good news is that with 1.2.30, we're no longer seeing the segfault. the bad news is that we error out due to an inability to load up notcurses without a TERM variable. the proper fix for this is to avoid using notcurses in any case where we're not connected to a tty. i can get this done

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-15 Thread Nick Black
alright, with 1.2.30 (1.2.29 was never released), we pass the autopkgtests, huzzah.

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-15 Thread Nick Black
not so fast! while this does indeed fix the segfault when run without TERM, i still get an autopkgtest failure, this one tracked down to stdout being redirected =[. so i'm gonna address that as well. how embarrassing.

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-15 Thread Nick Black
Here's the upstream bug: https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/issues/139 Here's the (obvious, trivial) fix: https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight/commit/297f487a8be84441ff75a22b5fa63305931cae70 A real brown-bagger =[. I'm going to cut 1.2.29 and upload it to unstable. If I ought prepare

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-15 Thread Nick Black
Alright, I've got it locked down to the absence of a TERM environment variable in the autopkgtest environment. If I run the same command outside of autopkgtest, after running `unset TERM`, i get the exact same failure. So, this failure is IMHO definitely worth fixing, and I intend to do so now,

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-15 Thread Nick Black
I can now reproduce this locally, and expect to have a fix this evening. I've looked over the rules for the Soft Freeze, and understand that it'll be acceptable to cut a new upstream release (I'm the upstream author) with this fix only (there have been no other changes since this release), upload

Bug#982786: growlight: autopkgtest regression

2021-02-14 Thread Nick Black
Thanks for the heads-up; glad I've got those autopkgtests. Looking into this now with the hope of fixing it ASAP.

Bug#975432: growlight: autopkgtest failures

2020-12-08 Thread Nick Black
it looks like 1.2.24-1 has fixed at least the amd64 autopkgtests. i'm waiting on the other architectures, but it looks like we'll be able to close this. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#975432: 975...@bugs.debian.org

2020-12-07 Thread Nick Black
of issues. I expect 1.2.24 to fix this, but won't be sure until it runs. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#975432: growlight: autopkgtest failures

2020-11-28 Thread Nick Black
With 1.2.22-1, we've got e.g.: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-4) ... (Reading database ... 14094 files and directories currently installed.) Removing autopkgtest-satdep (0) ... autopkgtest [06:16:57]: test blockdev-nonroot: echo "blockdev -v" | growlight-readline --notroot autopkgtest

Bug#975082: [PATCH] patch for snd-20.9 for notcurses 2.0.7

2020-11-24 Thread Nick Black
), ncplane_options_symbol, __func__, 1))->x)); @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ { ncplane_options nopts = { .y = yoff, -#if NOTCURSES_2_0_5 +#if NOTCURSES_2 .x = xoff, #else .horiz = { [schwarzgerat](0) $ -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you n

Bug#975432: growlight: autopkgtest failures

2020-11-22 Thread Nick Black
Thanks for the report. I was aware of the autopkgtest failures, but didn't realize that a failure there prevented migration. This failure seems a property of the autopkgtest environment, and has thus proved difficult to debug without a release. The upcoming 1.2.21 release has added diagnostics to

Bug#974918: libnotcurses2,libnotcurses++2: missing Breaks+Replaces: libnotcurses1/libnotcurses++1 (>= 2)

2020-11-17 Thread Nick Black
> That would have been sufficient for the file conflict, but I assumed > that the forgotten soname bump makes lib*1 (>= 2) not neccessarily > broken, but at least undesired versions. makes sense. thanks for the explanation, and thanks once again for the bug report and your well-known vigilance!

Bug#974918: libnotcurses2,libnotcurses++2: missing Breaks+Replaces: libnotcurses1/libnotcurses++1 (>= 2)

2020-11-16 Thread Nick Black
I've just uploaded 2.0.4+dfsg.1-3, which I believe fixes this issue. It ought be available within a few hours. I believe that the version constraints could have been tightened to (>= 2.0.4), but I didn't see this as adding particularly much value. Thanks as always for filing these bugs, Andreas!

Bug#974918: libnotcurses2,libnotcurses++2: missing Breaks+Replaces: libnotcurses1/libnotcurses++1 (>= 2)

2020-11-16 Thread Nick Black
Confirmed, fixing now. I'll upload 2.0.4+dfsg.1-3 with this fix present shortly (probably this evening). Thanks once again for the heads-up, and sorry for the mistake!

Bug#966500: python3-notcurses: missing Breaks+Replaces: notcurses-bin (<< 1.6)

2020-07-29 Thread Nick Black
pending thanks ok, I believe i have solved this. the problem arose when i moved notcurses-pydemo from notcurses-bin to python3-notcurses sometime since 1.5.1. so: * i've added the necessary Breaks+Replace to debian/control, and have built this as 1.6.9+dfsg.1-3. it ought remedy the

Bug#966500: python3-notcurses: missing Breaks+Replaces: notcurses-bin (<< 1.6)

2020-07-29 Thread Nick Black
#thanks Thank you for filing my first Debian bug! How exciting, and at the same time embarrassing. I should have caught this before uploading. A fix is obvious, and I ought be able to accomplish it within the Debian packaging proper, rather than requiring a new release (I'm the upstream author).

Bug#945047: Needs dependency for Crypt/Digest/SHA256.pm

2019-11-18 Thread Nick Black
Package: extrepo Version: 0.2 Followup-For: Bug #945047 Just confirming that libcryptx-perl does indeed fix the issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#839767: ncmpcpp fails to start due to undefined symbol in binary

2016-10-08 Thread Nick Black
Package: ncmpcpp Version: 0.7.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #839767 I rebuilt the source package against current libtag, and it works once more. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Bug#801430: aptitude: segfault maybe casued by package dependency loop aptitudeDepCache::internal_mark_delete loop here

2015-10-20 Thread Nick Black
I can confirm that 0.7.4 fixes the issue I reported. Good work. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#801430: aptitude: segfault maybe casued by package dependency loop aptitudeDepCache::internal_mark_delete loop here

2015-10-12 Thread Nick Black
if you want me to pull something and test it, i ought be able to within a day or so. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#801430: aptitude: segfault maybe casued by package dependency loop aptitudeDepCache::internal_mark_delete loop here

2015-10-12 Thread Nick Black
. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#801430: aptitude: segfault maybe casued by package dependency loop aptitudeDepCache::internal_mark_delete loop here

2015-10-12 Thread Nick Black
. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#787638: php5-curl: php segfaults immediately with php5-curl installed

2015-06-03 Thread Nick Black
Package: php5-curl Version: 5.6.9+dfsg-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, This morning, I upgraded my unstable i386-on-x86_64 installation. This pulled in new gnutls 3.3.15-5, and also gcc-5-base 5.1.1-9 and python3.4 (i doubt these last two are relevant).

Bug#787638: Acknowledgement (php5-curl: php segfaults immediately with php5-curl installed)

2015-06-03 Thread Nick Black
looks like this got resolved with the 7.42.1-2+b1 libcurl3-gnutls update that just rolled down. i can verify this update fixed things for me. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#687378:

2012-09-23 Thread Nick Black
Here's another example of crosslinked entries: ╭[virtual]─[-]─╮ │╭╮│ ││Bind devices to the new aggregate. To be eligible, a device must either be ││

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
More info on this: I've tracked it back to at least ID_PATH/ID_PATH_TAG using udevadm. By the time those two variables are assigned, different devices are already colliding. I think I'll be able to work out the problem just tracking down source with this info. -- nick black -- http

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
/ata1/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sdi both going to ID_PATH=pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-0_0_0_0 looks like including the ata/host/target information would be necessary and sufficient to resolve this issue. -- nick black -- http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix/hpc consulting if you want to make

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
was released five months ago. Is there a particular reason why Debian's shipping 175? I will rebuild udeb-175 with the attached diff and see if that solves the problem. -- nick black -- http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix/hpc consulting if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
This issue is also being tracked on Sprezzabugs, the SprezzOS bug tracker: https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=358 -- nick black -- http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix/hpc consulting if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent a universe

Bug#687378: udev: /dev/disk/by-path is missing entries and has incorrect entries

2012-09-12 Thread nick black
Package: udev Version: 175-7 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, I have experienced problems with udev's creation of links in /dev/disk/by-path on multiple machines (real and virtual) including missing links and incorrect links (ie, two

Bug#671695: fuseiso9660: copies from fuseiso9660 mount aren't reliable

2012-05-05 Thread nick black
Package: fuseiso9660 Version: 0.2b-1.1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, I am using fuseiso9660 for the creation of my modified debian-installer ISO. simple-cdd creates a standard debian unstable netboot installer ISO, which I then mount

Bug#643304: stat output

2011-10-04 Thread nick black
Jakub Wilk left as an exercise for the reader: Did you create the symlink manually, perhaps following the advice from http://bugs.debian.org/634684#10? this was precisely the issue. thanks! -- nick black nbl...@nvidia.com A main cause of the Roman

Bug#643304: python-awn-extras: can't install: unable to open '/usr/share/pyshared/awn/extras/__init__.py.dpkg-new'

2011-09-27 Thread nick black
Package: python-awn-extras Version: 0.4.0-3.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I attempted to upgrade to AWN 4.0.4 in sid. All my other packages are up to date. python-awn-extras fails to install with the following message: Retrieving bug reports... Done

Bug#533362: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#533362: ia32-libs uninstallable against libc6 2.9-15

2009-06-17 Thread Nick Black
Goswin von Brederlow left as an exercise for the reader: Nick Black d...@qemfd.net writes: Package: ia32-libs Version: 2.7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Thanks for the explanation, Goswin. Feel free to close this at your discretion (you might want to leave

Bug#533362: ia32-libs uninstallable against libc6 2.9-15

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Black
Package: ia32-libs Version: 2.7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Howdy! Yesterday, I upgraded to libc6 et al 2.9-14. Upon doing so, ia32-libs becomes uninstallable, until libc6 is backed down to 2.9-13. Today's 2.9-15 libc6 release does not solve the problem. As a