Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 11:36 PM RhineDevil wrote: > Sounds a nice idea in theory but the -v command as shown in > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/sbuild/sbuild.1.en.html is already > occupied by "version"... sbuild accepts long options, but in any case sbuild should not be involved here, si

Re: How to cleanup Ubuntu bugs for my Debian packages?

2020-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 11:59 AM Iustin Pop wrote: > Asking for people who have experience as Debian developers and who are > annoyed by the Ubuntu bug count in the QA (debian) page. BTW, the #debian-ubuntu OFTC IRC channel is useful for this sort of question. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.

Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-29 Thread RhineDevil
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:47:42 + Simon McVittie : > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 20:33:22 +0100, RhineDevil wrote: > > I ask the teams responsible for sbuild and debootstrap development > > permission to integrate these changes > > If you have made changes to sbuild and debootstrap and you want those > c

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-29 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Steve McIntyre, 29.11.20 20:21 Steve McIntyre: > On and off, I've been hacking on tasksel for quite a while to improve > the UI there and add better support for things like Blends. I've made > some progress in my hacking, but I think I've hit a brick wall and I > need to change tack. :-/ >

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 07:21:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On and off, I've been hacking on tasksel for quite a while to improve > the UI there and add better support for things like Blends. I've made > some progress in my hacking, but I think I've hit a brick wall and I > need to change tac

Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 20:33:22 +0100, RhineDevil wrote: > I ask the teams responsible for sbuild and debootstrap development > permission to integrate these changes If you have made changes to sbuild and debootstrap and you want those changes to be merged, the way to make that happen is to open b

Re: RFC: DEP-14 update, second attempt

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Laager
On 11/29/20 10:11 AM, Paride Legovini wrote: > I tried to do a synthesis of past August/September thread on the > finalization of DEP-14 [1], see: > > https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/1/diffs This all looks great to me! > I tried to stick to what I believe we had consensus

Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Laager
On 11/29/20 1:33 PM, RhineDevil wrote: > A viable solution for achieving this may be using an optional -f/--flavour > parameter Is flavour intended to be something like Debian vs. Devuan vs. Ubuntu? If so, could you please use "vendor" instead, since that is the pre-existing term for that distinc

Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-29 Thread RhineDevil
As now sbuild and debootstrap manage chroots on per-suite basis, they rely on scripts present in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts. This poses a problem, as suite names from different distros may occasionally overlap, as happened with debian/devuan jessie. After the split Debian continued to use its

Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, On and off, I've been hacking on tasksel for quite a while to improve the UI there and add better support for things like Blends. I've made some progress in my hacking, but I think I've hit a brick wall and I need to change tack. :-/ What I've ended up doing so far is hacking tasksel t

RFC: DEP-14 update, second attempt

2020-11-29 Thread Paride Legovini
[Resent as debian-devel doesn't allow attachments.] Hello, I tried to do a synthesis of past August/September thread on the finalization of DEP-14 [1], see: https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/1/diffs I took Raphaël's proposal [1] and integrated the following changes: (1

Re: Bug#976073: sbuild: support "podman" as chroot mode and provide a sbuild-create-oci command (built on top of buildah)

2020-11-29 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Raphael Hertzog (2020-11-29 15:24:01) > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > The resulting tarball can then be used with the sbuild unshare backend. The > > only time you need be root is to execute > > > > $ sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clo

Re: Bug#976073: sbuild: support "podman" as chroot mode and provide a sbuild-create-oci command (built on top of buildah)

2020-11-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 autopkgtest Control: retitle -2 "autopkgtest: implement a podman backend" Control: block -1 by -2 Hi, On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > The resulting tarball can then be used with the sbuild unshare backend. The > only time yo

Re: How to cleanup Ubuntu bugs for my Debian packages?

2020-11-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2020-11-29 14:06:31, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hello all, > > For the sake of disclosure, I'm also an Ubuntu Developer. > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 12:58:53PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > I have a Launchpad account, and the project itself lists my Launchpad > > account as "maintainer", but on th

Re: How to cleanup Ubuntu bugs for my Debian packages?

2020-11-29 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hello all, For the sake of disclosure, I'm also an Ubuntu Developer. On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 12:58:53PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > I have a Launchpad account, and the project itself lists my Launchpad > account as "maintainer", but on the bug itself I can't mark it as "Won't > fix", only as "Inva

How to cleanup Ubuntu bugs for my Debian packages?

2020-11-29 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, Asking for people who have experience as Debian developers and who are annoyed by the Ubuntu bug count in the QA (debian) page. These bugs are trivial/minor, but still, I'd like to clean up. Let's take for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pylibacl/+bug/1876350. I h

Re: Bug#976073: sbuild: support "podman" as chroot mode and provide a sbuild-create-oci command (built on top of buildah)

2020-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 12:33:22 +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > What I would like even more, would be to add a podman backend to autopkgtest. > This has the following advantages: > > - it would already work with sbuild today (no changes in sbuild required) > - no duplicated work

Re: Bug#976073: sbuild: support "podman" as chroot mode and provide a sbuild-create-oci command (built on top of buildah)

2020-11-29 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Raphaël Hertzog (2020-11-29 11:42:16) > I know that multiple developers started using podman and buildah to manage > containers where they build their Debian packages. With user namespace > supports, this allows rootless building (like the "unshare" chroot > mode)... you don't even nee