Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

2024-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
Debian specific patches; I'll try to keep backporting useful ones to 2.6 since that's what the debian branch is running from.) Feel free to package the package as native or non-native as you see fit. [I'd prefer to keep the delta between release_2.6 and your packaging as small as

Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

2024-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:34:08AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Control: severity -1 normal > > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2024, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > In case the package should be kept in unstable, please evaluate ea

Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

2024-09-02 Thread Don Armstrong
support debbugs through a stable release. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law

Bug#1070695: server-control.html: ambiguous text bug bugs assigned to 2 packages

2024-05-07 Thread Don Armstrong
is marked as fixed in only one of these packages. The reality is even more complex than this paragraph, because found/fixed/absent is dependent on the DAG of package versions, not the time of upload. I should crib some text from one of my blog posts a few years ago about this and add it to the

Re: Where is the source code for debbugs running on bugs.debian.org ?

2023-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
lt branch of debbugs.git/ The version in the debian/ directory is what is actually running, and that should normally be exactly the same as the debian branch of the git repo. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion

Re: What is appropriate to put in Version: for debbugs upstream bugs

2023-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
ion do I put? It doesn't really matter in this case, but 2.6.0 is most appropriate thing to put there. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com With one simple pill we cured unhappiness and art -- a softer world #437 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437

Bug#1052624: debbugs: forwarded messages break DMARC, DKIM, SPF

2023-09-27 Thread Don Armstrong
7;s impacting enough Debian contributors to matter, I don't mind accepting a patch. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p25

Re: Trying to reach BTS admins

2023-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
cussion off of the mailing list. [It was a blacklist (false?) positive that was causing the mail to be classified as spam.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com With one simple pill we cured unhappiness and art -- a softer world #437 http://www.asofterworld.co

Bug#1036574: Unable to change submitter to addresses with non-7 bit characters

2023-05-22 Thread Don Armstrong
Mail::RFC822::Address::valid($param{submitter}) should read not Mail::RFC822::Address::valid(encode_rfc1522($param{submitter})) Thanks for the report. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault somewhere in

Bug#1034564: debbugs: "There is no record of Bug" after getting confirmation e-mail

2023-04-18 Thread Don Armstrong
ontends. It's known, it's short, and it only happens on new bugs. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I finally developed a computer with feelings. It just doesn't have feelings for me. -- a softer world #633 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=633

Bug#568230: bugs.debian.org: "forwarded" tags should gracefully ignore line breaks

2022-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Sep 2022, fab...@greffrath.com wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:09:22 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > The reason is that my mail client breaks lines if they are longer > > > than 70 characters. > >

Bug#1009181: File suffix for message mbox links should be .eml

2022-04-09 Thread Don Armstrong
no objection to changing the default extension; I personally wasn't aware of the eml extension when I wrote that part of the code. We should also not do From escaping when we're just returning a single message. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The terrori

Bug#712979: debbugs: get_bug_log can incorrectly return an e-mail body with xsi:type="xsd:long"

2022-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 02 Jan 2022, Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 01.01.22 22:05, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I'm currently working on it, but my available time is so minimal, > > that additional help would be welcome. > > Awesome news! Is there some repository to check out? I'

Bug#712979: debbugs: get_bug_log can incorrectly return an e-mail body with xsi:type="xsd:long"

2022-01-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 01 Jan 2022, Nis Martensen wrote: > On 31.12.2021 Don Armstrong wrote in #1002595: > > [Really, it's past time for us to support a REST interface and > > abandon the SOAP interface.] > Just wondering: Don, how much effort would you estimate is this? Do you > have

Bug#1002595: debbugs: get_bug_log can incorrectly return an e-mail body with xsi:type="xsd:long"

2021-12-31 Thread Don Armstrong
gs is doing it is clearly not correct, but fixing it isn't high on my priority list. [Really, it's past time for us to support a REST interface and abandon the SOAP interface.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Grimble left his mother in the fo

Re: Two of my messages to #997919 eaten by spamfilter?

2021-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
reply separately as ow...@bugs.debian.org. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com With one simple pill we cured unhappiness and art -- a softer world #437 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437

Bug#685264: merge bugs 685264, 705155 and 746206?

2021-08-29 Thread Don Armstrong
ed > 746206: Control: pseudoheaders do not work for -done bugs; finish() called > too early Yep. Merging them. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I've had so much good luck recently I was getting sated with it. It's like sugar, good luck. At firs

Bug#977726: debbugs: Decode non-ascii "Done:" field in HTML output

2020-12-20 Thread Don Armstrong
bug > contains non-ASCII characters. This is the case of my name, as we can > see in Bug#976382 [1]: This is because my fix for #950132 in dak was wrong, and used the mime-encoded Maintainer field instead of the unencoded maintainer field. The attached patch addresses this issu

Bug#922715: debbugs: b.d.o/release-critical/britney/testing-nr wrongly reports RC bugs when reported against two packages

2019-02-19 Thread Don Armstrong
't expect that I'll get around to adding the AND/OR feature to versions any time soon, so in the meantime I'd just file a separate bug if you want to be sure that a package doesn't transition if one of the set already has. -- Don Armstrong https://www.don

Re: Migrating debbugs' SOAP interface to JSON

2018-12-17 Thread Don Armstrong
#x27; field, which has that information. The 'archived' and 'unarchived' fields tell you whether a bug is archived, and when a bug has been unarchived previously. [The documentation in Debbugs::Status has more of this detail.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com 6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2. -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_

Re: Migrating debbugs' SOAP interface to JSON

2018-12-06 Thread Don Armstrong
specification for that API using openAPI (swagger) which I (or someone else) could then work to write the perl backend to the BTS to spit out that API. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterm

Bug#910360: debbugs: get_bug_log SOAP operation truncates message

2018-10-13 Thread Don Armstrong
ps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712979;mbox=yes>? True; though I think I'd like to avoid having the URLs be an API. > And it has the disadvantage that the whole MIME parsing is left to the > different SOAP clients. Right; I think this is the main argument against this opt

Bug#910360: debbugs: get_bug_log SOAP operation truncates message

2018-10-13 Thread Don Armstrong
content_type => 'text/plain', content_name => 'if defined', # or whatever the right mime headers are; I forget },] and then another SOAP interface which does something like: get_bug_attachment($bug_num,$msg_num,$attachment_id) Another option could be for the SOAP call just to return the entire message without doing any MIME parsing; maybe that would be better? -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com unbeingdead isn't beingalive -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_

Bug#910360: debbugs: get_bug_log SOAP operation truncates message

2018-10-09 Thread Don Armstrong
or something like that), and a second SOAP API which provided a mechanism to retrieve those attachments. [As I think SOAP is a technical dead end, I also think that a REST API should probably do the same thing... but I'm really short on time.] -- Don Armstrong https://

Bug#910360: debbugs: get_bug_log SOAP operation truncates message

2018-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
That's right; it's currently only returning the body and header of the mail messages, not the attachments. There probably should be an option to return all of them, but this particular interface isn't really the right way to do it. -- Don Armstrong https:/

Bug#900719: usertag checklimit doesn't error out of read_bug fails properly

2018-06-03 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: debbugs Severity: normal Setting a usertag on an unavailable bug fails internally without an informative error message. See service l 415. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick

Bug#894779: debbugs: usertags don't work with Control: pseudoheaders

2018-04-04 Thread Don Armstrong
, there have been enough requests for this feature, that I'm going to change it. I just have to think of the right way to do it. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com 6: I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down. I get up or I don't get up. I ge

Accepted debbugs 2.6.0 (source all) into unstable

2018-03-26 Thread Don Armstrong
: Don Armstrong Description: debbugs- bug tracking system based on the active Debian BTS debbugs-local - Run and maintains a local mirror of the Debian BTS debbugs-web - web scripts for the active Debian BTS libdebbugs-perl - modules used by the active Debian BTS Closes: 49228 208130 412815

Bug#892060: Modifying archived bugs via blocks should fail before starting to block, rather than in the middle

2018-03-04 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: debbugs Severity: normal While putting blocking into #885135, #885310 was archived, so all subsequent bugs were not properly blocked. This should either fail early, and block no bugs, or skip the archived bugs, and block the rest of the bugs. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#881903: Please use angles in From: addr-spec

2017-11-19 Thread Don Armstrong
put in. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkability of oneself not being there." -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391

Bug#869738: Kill off db2html and html-control

2017-07-26 Thread Don Armstrong
e allowed, like ~, #, $ etc.? Yeah; not sure. I think we can do the best job possible, and then let people suggest patches for it. I'll work up an initial stab with the suggested rewrite rules in the suggested apache configuration, and then we can modify it as necessary. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#869738: Kill off db2html and html-control

2017-07-25 Thread Don Armstrong
;severity=$2 [L,R] in the example apache configuration file. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A

Bug#865809: Very large e-mail messages with no attachments cause bugreport.cgi to fail

2017-06-24 Thread Don Armstrong
x27;s displaying the entire log. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295

Bug#860108: Handle removal of architectures from releases while building versions.idx

2017-04-11 Thread Don Armstrong
'1.5.7-1' ] } The removal of an entire arch, like powerpc from testing leaves package versions behind. Catch this more elegantly while building versions.idx. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Where I sleep at night, is this important co

Bug#705155: debbugs: "control:" commands sent to *-close addresses get ignored

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
trivial to implement, I would have added it right then too.] I just haven't had a chance to do the legwork to implement it properly. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails.

Bug#844059: debbugs: control server should reject fixed versions that do not exist and result in a no-op

2016-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
e same path as the fixed version. For example, if a bug is fixed by a security update in stable, that doesn't mean it is fixed in unstable. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must no

Bug#685264: debbugs: obey “Control” field in pseudoheader of messages to ‘nnn-d...@bugs.debian.org’

2016-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Ben Finney wrote: > On 18-Aug-2012, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Control: only works for nnn@b.d.o and submit@b.d.o currently. Other > > things may be supported in the future, but most of those other > > messages have side effects. > > Could you expand

Bug#836613: debbugs: specifying 0 (“current message”) causes ‘summary’ to attempt to parse message header

2016-09-04 Thread Don Armstrong
aw now is definitely a bug. Thanks for reporting it! -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/917/

Re: [PATCH] Add viewport in HTML

2016-08-03 Thread Don Armstrong
the BTS will probably need more changes beyond this for a > "perfect mobile experience". However, this should make default > text-size much more reasonable. Thanks for the patch! This has now been applied. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Every

Bug#815198: NEW script: /usr/lib/debbug/mbox

2016-03-04 Thread Don Armstrong
Thanks for these patches! I'll try to get them incorporated shortly. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy somethin

Re: jira integration

2015-11-16 Thread Don Armstrong
dated. > > Is this possible to be done in Debian bug tracking system? Yes. > Do you have an already built Plug-in for this functionality? Nope. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used to op

Re: FYI: git.donarmstrong.com/debbugs.git reports 403.

2015-08-16 Thread Don Armstrong
m there. (It does show me that what I > have is already mostly up-to-date.) Thanks for the report; you should be able to pull again. [If you cannot, let me know.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com nothing except the impossible shall occur -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_

Bug#792855: apt-listbugs seems to strip the trailing zero from the version?

2015-07-19 Thread Don Armstrong
e later version 0.22.1 : the final result is that it > considers dgit/0.30 as buggy. Heh. Yeah, this definitely seems to be the bug. YA example of why me being lazy in the soap interface description has resulted in some issues like this. I'll see what i can do to fix this up. -- Don Armst

Bug#791703: Feature Request: ack email should contain a link to the bug

2015-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
eah, that probably should be done. Almost every other mail has it, but that one doesn't. [In the future, for issues with the bts including feature reports, you can file bugs against the bugs.debian.org package.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com No matter how

Bug#788493: [PATCH] point at config.debian's new location

2015-06-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, David Loyall wrote: > Commit 5e1b59b490108e408e4ed574a2b910564a1dfb14 broke the build. The > attached patch fixes it by altering the Makefile to point at the new > location for two files. Thanks for the patch; I've applied it now. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#775053: debbugs: postinst uses /usr/share/doc content (Policy 12.3): /usr/share/doc/debbugs/examples/config

2015-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
o figure that out myself; I think it probably should ship with Jessie, because I'd want to fix any security bugs that people found, but I'm not sure how useful it is in general. Thanks for the patch; I'll get this uploaded this weekend. -- Don Armstrong http://

Bug#763434: Example: Bug #721310

2014-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
g that you were looking for instead of the per-package search page. But that said, eventually I will have the bug content searching working again. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I have no use for "before and after" pictures. I can't remember start

Bug#763434: Example: Bug #721310

2014-10-13 Thread Don Armstrong
ich you expected to see but which were not returned. It's very difficult for me to know precisely what is going wrong if I don't have concrete examples. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could ha

Bug#763434: Example: Bug #721310

2014-10-02 Thread Don Armstrong
ts limiting the bugs returned by a previous search by subject. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as have no voices." -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett

Bug#763434: debbugs: retitled reports are found neither by old nor by new title/subject

2014-09-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > it is not a big issue, but maybe it is worth fixing it. You'll have to provide more information; I'm not sure what you mean. When a bug report is retitled, the title definitely changes... -- Don Armstrong

Bug#762967: XSS in bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/version.cgi

2014-09-27 Thread Don Armstrong
shouldn't even be in use at all. I've already removed them from bugs.debian.org, and I'll probably eliminate them from git shortly. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the use

Bug#762502: Reply links containing non-ascii data are broken

2014-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: debbugs Severity: normal See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723649#15 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762310#10 for example; the mail header encoding is not reverted. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "It&

Bug#761995: If there's a copy in db-h/yy/nnnnyy.log and an additional one in archive/, assume it's not archived

2014-09-17 Thread Don Armstrong
/749950.log 00:15:07 -rw-rw-r-- 1 debbugs debbugs 3841 May 30 22:27 spool/db-h/50/749950.report 00:15:07 -rw-rw-r-- 1 debbugs debbugs 179 Sep 17 05:21 spool/db-h/50/749950.status 00:15:07 -rw-rw-r-- 1 debbugs debbugs 308 Sep 17 05:21 spool/db-h/50/749950.summary -- Don Armstrong

Bug#752193: Severity of bug from Submitter's PoV in BTS

2014-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
pointed out that the way launchpad handles these is good; I'm amenable to implementing something similar in the BTS, but I'd like to follow someone else's example which works well if at all possible. 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=71879 -- Don Armstrong

Bug#694979: debbugs: get_bugs() should allow specifying binary versions of packages

2014-06-12 Thread Don Armstrong
r the bug was still found in a particular source version. I believe the only correct way to implement this is to have a new SOAP call which actually asked for bugs which affected a list of packages which had particular severity; it would be totally distinct from the current get_bugs interface. -- Don A

Bug#747239: fixed_versions format in the BTS and forcemerge

2014-05-06 Thread Don Armstrong
ld never have been just 204-9, but should have been coerced into systemd/204-9; this is probably a bug in -done handling which is exposed when you just give a Version pseudoheader without a Source pseudoheader... and should be fixed. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com W

Bug#746206: Control: psuedoheaders do not work for -done bugs; finish() called too early

2014-04-27 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: debbugs Severity: normal finish() is called for -done bugs before @control_bits is processed. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Tell me something interesting about yourself. Lie if you have to. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20

Bug#742084: debbugs should look for a bug in the non-archived location first

2014-03-18 Thread Don Armstrong
tually synced almost immediately, but the sync program doesn't handle deletions immediately... 17:54:05 I should probably fix the code that does that to find the non-archived bug first -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Dropping non-free would set us back at

Bug#734470: libdebbugs-perl: SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server returns Content-Type Multipart/Related

2014-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
ething is > multipart > # perhaps a /content-type:.*multipart\//gi is a better regex? > my ($is_multipart) = > ! ( $response =~ /^content-type:.* boundary="([^\"]*)"/im ); > > $self->response( > HTTP::Response->new( -- Don A

Bug#728034: Bugreport.pm: doesn't uri_encode email addresses before querying libravatar.cgi

2013-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
x27;ve fixed this issue, and will roll it out to the BTS soonish. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept. -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-debbugs-requ...@lists.

Re: draft calls for help: dak, debbugs, d-i

2013-10-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Ping on that (at least for dak and debbugs)? I've tweaked the debbugs bit some. Thanks for this. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing

Bug#720586: debbugs: SOAP: Please return also the usertag

2013-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > It would be nice if get_status in the soap interface could also return > the usertags. > > It currently returns the tag but not the usertags... It will return the usertags if you pass the results of get_usertags to it. -- D

Bug#590269: create a web-based submission for use with reportbug and possibly everything

2013-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
mail address... so it's possible that I will implement the CGI with some sort of cache coupled with a response. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league

Bug#644242: debbugs pkg: debbugs-upgradestatus does not work

2013-07-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 03:35:59PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > That would probably be worthwhile. Would you rather I put out a release, > > or is running from git reasonable enough? > > To be honest I would very much welcome

Bug#703119: Isn't this fixed already?

2013-07-03 Thread Don Armstrong
sing libravatar.org, but this will be fixed to use the complete libravatar federated avatar system. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't e

Bug#644242: debbugs pkg: debbugs-upgradestatus does not work

2013-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
is running from git reasonable enough? http://git.donarmstrong.com/debbugs.git is my git repository. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to s

Bug#712979: debbugs: please add REST api

2013-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
s). If i can also add an > exclude/include argument as in the page then even better. :) > ​I think that should be ok for now. Would a format=json or similar argument to the existing bugreport.cgi and pkgreport.cgi pages be enough? [Or at least, the existing argument parsing.]

Bug#708170: clone doesn't properly handle blocked-by [only uses blocks]

2013-05-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 29 May 2013, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2013, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > Apparently the blocked-by relation between #692286 and #708166 was > > > inverted. > > > > Yeah; this is a bug in the cloning; I'll get

Bug#708537: debbugs: bugs filed against 'package:arch' go to package 'unknown'

2013-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 handle package:arch and package_version Package: pseudoheaders more intelligently. On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 16 mai 13, 10:01:26, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > &g

Bug#708537: debbugs: bugs filed against 'package:arch' go to package 'unknown'

2013-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > See #694115 for an occurrence. This has never been supported at all. This is a bug in reportbug for sending the message this way. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or

Bug#708075: debbugs: requesting a "triggered-by" mechanism

2013-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
707797 libffi/3.0.13-4 instead. It's also worth thinking about using "found-with" and "fixed-with" or something similar instead. I'll have to think about this more before and get some more input I start actually implementing this. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#707019: Make blocks and blocked by in bugreport.cgi prettier

2013-05-06 Thread Don Armstrong
is more helpfpul for that pinotree 15:28:23 hm doesn't pts shows only the open ones currently? 15:28:58 you probably should also be able to select bugs in pkgreport by blocks... 15:29:01 oh well 15:31:56 Reload #661958 if you thought the previous view was bad ... ;) Don Armstrong --

Bug#705155: debbugs: "control:" commands sent to *-close addresses get ignored

2013-04-10 Thread Don Armstrong
:" syntax, but it was ignored: > http://bugs.debian.org/534466 Right, this is as documented: http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/control_at_submit/ Don Armstrong -- DIE! -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.ed

Re: Failed test 'POD test for bin/debbugs-rebuild-index.db'

2013-03-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: > commit dda4ac413007e12639f709e8e1a41c3583e78e36 > Author: Don Armstrong > Date: Wed Mar 20 07:31:12 2013 -0700 > > add rebuild index support > """ > > """ Yeah, it's this last one. I&

Re: Patch series to raise Standards to 3.9.4

2013-03-20 Thread Don Armstrong
o keep an eye on your branch and incorporate it. Feel free also to wire up KGB for it [let me know if you want that; I run KGB-3 on #debian-debbugs and a few other places.] Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumst

Re: Patch series to raise Standards to 3.9.4

2013-03-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > I have done some work on getting the debbugs package lintian clean(er). > > > > Only open issue left: > > W: debbugs: binary-without-manpage usr/sbin/debbugs-upgradestatus >

Re: Patch series to raise Standards to 3.9.4

2013-03-18 Thread Don Armstrong
y > to your master branch on git.donarmstrong.com. Hrm; they don't seem to apply cleanly to the tree @09cf3 or @d1fb1. [patch 5 and 9 both fail; also, there's no reason to capitalize the start of the short description line.] Don Armstrong -- UF: What's your favorite coffee bl

Re: Fwd: Processed (with 1 errors): retitle 527162 to ITP: gitorious -- Git based tool for collaborating on distributed open source projects ...

2013-02-15 Thread Don Armstrong
you: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=7;bug=700630 ] Don Armstrong -- Three little words. (In order of importance.) █ █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘ █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘ █ -- hugh macleod "Three Words" http://www.donarmstrong.

Bug#693862: unarchive doesn't output a useful error if the bug isn't archived

2012-11-20 Thread Don Armstrong
quot;B" == Debian Bug Tracking System writes: > B> Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > >> unarchive 681024 > >> thanks > B> Stopping processing here. > > B> Please contact me if you need assistance. > B> -- > B>

Bug#693294: Send nnn@ mail to both the old maintainer and new maintainer when a bug is reassigned using control pseudoheaders

2012-11-15 Thread Don Armstrong
which it can certainly do 00:40:32 (since it'll know the recipients before and after the control commands have taken effect.) Don Armstrong -- J.W. Grant: "Bastard!" Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man

Re: Interaction between clone and Control pseudo-header

2012-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
idn't see any documentation for the "Control:" pseudo-header > beyond that it exists and (in some unexplained manner) allows > control@ commands in normal messages [1]. You literally just stick normal control commands in the mail. However, I've expanded the example more complete

Re: UDD chokes on debbugs data

2012-09-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > [ Adding debian-debbugs@ to Cc. Full thread at > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2012/09/msg00027.html ] > > Yes, I'm aware of this problem, and have been in the process of f

Re: UDD chokes on debbugs data

2012-09-20 Thread Don Armstrong
insrc and srcbin index, and the code that rebuilds that isn't particularly fast.] It has just finished the first run, and I'm in the process of adding the entries which have been added since the run started. Don Armstrong -- If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyw

Bug#688109: debbugs does not process mails sent to control@ in Cc:

2012-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
Debian uses exim, and I've used sendmail and exim previously.] > I will send a patch for the MTA Readme in a minute. Awesome, thanks. Don Armstrong -- Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep. -- Count Orloc

Bug#688109: debbugs does not process mails sent to control@ in Cc:

2012-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
ually parse the mail to figure out where it was sent, anyway; you can Bcc: it messages if you want.] Don Armstrong -- NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again. -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327 http://www.donarm

Re: Cherry-pick debbug commits from my branch(?)

2012-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Mike Gabriel wrote: > What will be best practice here? One Debian BTS issue per Git > commit? Or you check my commits and cherry pick? Please just send patches to this mailing list using git format-patch. Don Armstrong -- Sentenced to two years hard labor (for

Bug#686940: Patch against pkgindex.cgi, fixes internal webserver error

2012-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
a while ago in ed6a5cd2. I haven't released a new experimental version which resolves this issue, however. Don Armstrong -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman http://www.donarmstrong.com http:

Bug#686928: Makefile rule to fix failing templates installation

2012-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
bugs-source/ or github or http://git.donarmstrong.com/debbugs.git; feel free to submit patches to it. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface "pending" attribute

2012-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Justin B Rye wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > get_bug_status > [...] > > Okay, so technically *all* of these elements (including the tags and > subject and so on) are part of the bug's "status", and the "pending >

Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface "pending" attribute

2012-09-06 Thread Don Armstrong
of the original bug report Other key/value pairs are returned but are not currently documented here. Hope that clarifies. Don Armstrong -- A kiss was mysterious and powerful, fragile and invincible. Like any spark, a kiss might fizzle into nothing or consume an entire forest. [...] A kiss

Bug#684113: debbugs: "marked as done" messages are a pain to read

2012-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
il could keep the "From" of the -done mail. Probably, yeah. Don Armstrong -- Clean living is less fun and you wind up feeling stupid when you still die. -- a softer world #489 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.e

BTS commands forcemerge and merge merging fields

2012-04-03 Thread Don Armstrong
r merge, as for most of these bugs, having more affects rather than fewer is a good thing, as it reduces needless duplicates. If this is a problem or you have any objections, let me know. Don Armstrong 1: Thanks to Julien, Cyril, and Rene on IRC. -- But if, after all, we are on the wrong track,

Re: UDD bugs stale?

2012-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
e need for the env variable? I could, but that seems kind of messy. One easy solution would be to just have /etc/debbugs/config link to that file... or, alternatively, I could make the UID not matching a warning... not sure which would be easier to do. Don Armstrong -- Cheop's Law: Nothin

Re: UDD bugs stale?

2012-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
checked previously... and honestly, I didn't expect anyone to be using it to run a configuration file stored in an arbitrary location. [I primarily intended it to be used during testing.] Don Armstrong -- Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert Heinlein _Time E

Re: UDD bugs stale?

2012-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
ecommend we fix this? One way would just be to cp /org/bugs/debian.org/etc/config foo; DEBBUGS_CONFIG_FILE="foo"; blah blah blah; another would be to convince me that what I did out of an abundance of caution wasn't particularly useful (which could be true.) Don Armstrong -- Wh

Re: Lean more about the BTS

2012-01-25 Thread Don Armstrong
ning on the BTS. Don Armstrong -- The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. -- Ado

Re: Size of bts-spool-db/ and bts-spool-archive/

2012-01-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012, Julien VAUBOURG wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:42:39 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Tue, 03 Jan 2012, Julien VAUBOURG wrote: > >>I would like to mirror the BTS db. In order to choose a disk space, > >>could you tell me the size required by bts-

Re: Size of bts-spool-db/ and bts-spool-archive/

2012-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
now won't be correct later. Don Armstrong -- Clean living is less fun and you wind up feeling stupid when you still die. -- a softer world #489 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#647801: SOAP API get_bugs() doesn't show bugs affecting the package

2011-11-07 Thread Don Armstrong
gt; [] > > probably because it's an intersection of the two sets? Is > > >>> server.get_bugs("package", "rootskel") + server.get_bugs('affects', > >>> 'rootskel') > > the only way? That's actually how t

Bug#647801: SOAP API get_bugs() doesn't show bugs affecting the package

2011-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
You want server.get_bugs("affects","rootskel"). "package" and "src" retrieve bugs in a package, not bugs affecting a package. Don Armstrong -- You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty soon, though, the rush from a tes

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