Re: Salsa - best thing in Debian in recent years? (Re: finally end single-person maintainership)

2024-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
ssumed that anyone using that package was running unstable or running debbugs out of git. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over e

Re: Control header sent with done email didn't do what I expected, should it have?

2023-09-30 Thread Don Armstrong
y just a case of that happening for free when I enabled it for submit@.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop

Re: An email address for drive-by bug reports?

2023-03-22 Thread Don Armstrong
ived.) Bugs that are fixed in testing, unstable (and experimental) but not RC severity (serious and above) are archived if they have been closed for more than 28 days. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Rule 30: "A little trust goes a long way. The les

Re: An email address for drive-by bug reports?

2023-03-06 Thread Don Armstrong
on't plan on implementing or accepting a patch to do nosubmitter unless someone can convince me otherwise. [Submitter is a currently non-optional field; if a bug does not have a submitter, the BTS will not accept the bug. Making it optional would be more work than adding the control command.] -- Don

Re: feedback for NEW packages: switch to using the BTS?

2022-05-03 Thread Don Armstrong
n; that will get fixed up when the package actually transits is ACCEPTED. Still unresolved is how this intersects with the search that people use to reassign bugs against outdated packages to the current package (or close bugs in removed packages). -- Don Armstrong https://www

Re: Require packages to build without any configured DNS

2021-09-14 Thread Don Armstrong
rConfiguration, and instead not configure any nameservers. Then, if someone tries to resolve without any configured nameservers, NoNameservers will be raised, which is the same thing that happens if there are no good nameservers, and is less inconsistent with the previous behavior. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Require packages to build without any configured DNS

2021-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
fails?] That seems like the right default unless you really, really need to talk to a full-fledged DNS server directly. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com He quite enjoyed the time by himself in the mornings. The day was too early to have started going really wrong.

Re: BTS not archiving Bcc: mails? [was: Re: inconsistent mailgraph settings]

2021-08-26 Thread Don Armstrong
what is in To/Cc when processing e-mail, and only pays attention to the SMTP RCPT TO and MAIL FROM. Normally -done messages include the done address in the To: header, so it's pretty obvious which message actually caused a bug to be closed, but it is not required. -- Don Armstrong

Accepted autorandr 1.8.1-2 (source all) into unstable

2019-11-30 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:30:36 -0700 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.8.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Description: autorandr

Accepted sslh 1.20-1 (source) into unstable

2019-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:04:54 -0700 Source: sslh Architecture: source Version: 1.20-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Closes: 889575 889576 Changes: sslh (1.20-1) unstable

Accepted perltidy 20190601-1 (source) into unstable

2019-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:45:50 -0700 Source: perltidy Architecture: source Version: 20190601-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Changes: perltidy (20190601-1) unstable

Accepted autorandr 1.8.1-1 (source) into unstable

2019-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:18:44 -0700 Source: autorandr Architecture: source Version: 1.8.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Changes: autorandr (1.8.1-1) unstable; urgency

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-11 Thread Don Armstrong
ation in systemd is just to add ExecStop=/bin/sleep 1 [This is to avoid `service connman stop; service connman start;` being surprising.] > I don't know of a way to ask firmware if something is still winding > down If someone figures out how to do this, you'd just repla

Accepted perltidy 20181120-1 (source all) into unstable

2019-06-08 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 14:57:29 -0700 Source: perltidy Binary: perltidy Architecture: source all Version: 20181120-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Description: perltidy

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-25 Thread Don Armstrong
d enough, and those generally don't involve coprocessors. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I made a bunch of stickers to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels. "If you are reading this, then you are awesome" -- a softer world #569 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569

Accepted autorandr 1.7-1 (source all) into unstable

2019-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:00:08 -0800 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Description: autorandr

Accepted libhtml-calendarmonth-perl 2.04-2 (source all) into unstable

2018-11-24 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 16:04:25 -0800 Source: libhtml-calendarmonth-perl Binary: libhtml-calendarmonth-perl Architecture: source all Version: 2.04-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don

Accepted perltidy 20180220-1 (source all) into unstable

2018-08-11 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 10:30:42 -0700 Source: perltidy Binary: perltidy Architecture: source all Version: 20180220-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Description: perltidy

Accepted autorandr 1.6-1 (source all) into unstable

2018-08-04 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:33:58 -0700 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong Changed-By: Don Armstrong Description: autorandr

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Don Armstrong
The existing newcomer tag view in the BTS could be a start: https://bugs.debian.org/tag:newcomer [This was my hope when I introduced the newcomer tag, but I'd like nothing more than someone to take it and run with it.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I would like t

Accepted lilypond 2.19.81-1~exp2 (source all amd64) into unstable

2018-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
-1~exp2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files) lilypond-doc - LilyPond Documenta

Accepted lilypond 2.18.2-13 (source all amd64) into unstable

2018-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files) lilypond-doc - LilyPond Documentation in info format (and metapackage) lilyp

Accepted unscd 0.53-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2018-04-30 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:22:07 -0700 Source: unscd Binary: unscd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.53-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@d

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-26 Thread Don Armstrong
ng so early, clearly, and publicly. The question is what (if anything) do any of us want to do to provide resources to provide that support. We do not have unlimited maintainer time; triaging is sad, but it produces better outcomes. -- Don Armstrong https://www

Accepted scowl 2018.04.16-1 (source all) into unstable

2018-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
wcanadian-large wcanadian-huge wcanadian-insane hunspell-en-us hunspell-en-au hunspell-en-ca Architecture: source all Version: 2018.04.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: hu

Accepted autorandr 1.5-1 (source all) into unstable

2018-04-03 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:56:17 -0700 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstr

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-28 Thread Don Armstrong
all. Would a sentence: "Use the help tag in addition to the wontfix tag if you would still accept a patch that fixed this issue." to the wontfix description be useful? 1: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com I've h

Accepted libtest-postgresql-perl 1.24-1 (source all) into unstable

2018-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
ain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: libtest-postgresql-perl - sets up and destroys temporary PostgreSQL instances for testing Changes: libtest-postgresql-perl (1.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release Ch

Accepted debbugs 2.6.0 (source all) into unstable

2018-03-26 Thread Don Armstrong
ebb...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> 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 -

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

2018-03-05 Thread Don Armstrong
an upload has been made to Debian, and subsequent upload requires changing the source package. -- Don Armstrong https://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 someth

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

2018-03-05 Thread Don Armstrong
a hiccup. For that reason I originally proposed > doing this with the salsa issue tracker. Even if you use the same version, so long as you mark the bug as fixed in the version where it was uploaded everything should work properly. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstr

Re: A proposal for improving transparency of the FTP NEW process

2018-03-02 Thread Don Armstrong
BTS; I'd just need someone to propose how this would work, and a link format that seems sensible. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only disappointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish,

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-28 Thread Don Armstrong
ith an appropriate error message. [This could be exploited, but it'd chop out a great deal of spam.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men who send young men out to die. -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Georg Faerber wrote: > On 18-02-21 10:53:49, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Speaking on behalf of owner@, we're always looking more assistance in > > creating better SA rules. Our configuration is publicly available.[1] > > [I've just started moving it fro

Accepted libtest-postgresql-perl 1.23-2 (source all) into unstable, unstable

2018-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
ain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: libtest-postgresql-perl - sets up and destroys temporary PostgreSQL instances for testing Closes: 890540 891266 Changes: libtest-postgresql-perl (1.23-2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Docum

Re: Systemd dependencies

2018-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
his normally be handled by having postfix delay mail delivery if clamsmtp wasn't operational? So the ordering of postfix/clamsmtp startup is less important. Perhaps even better would be to have clamsmtp do socket activation, so the sockets existed before either postfix or clamsmtp were start

Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
ing directory or tarball, and just restoring them if the package is reinstalled without an intervening purge. [Or whatever other creative solution the dpkg developers decide is the best course of action.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com nothing except the imposs

Re: The value of unmodified conffiles left on disk of removed, but not purged, packages

2018-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
ul for foo. [For example, apache operates this way.] 1: Though this sort of guarding is easy for Xsession.d, I'm certain that there are configuration systems where this is not easy to implement. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Whatever you do will be insig

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
TODO list. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. -- Douglas Adams

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-21 Thread Don Armstrong
licly available.[1] [I've just started moving it from alioth to salsa, so the git urls will change slightly.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com [I]t's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think,

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-21 Thread Don Armstrong
, but fully automating the process would be great. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law

Bug#890540: ITP: libtest-postgresql-perl -- sets up and destroys temporary PostgreSQL instances for testing

2018-02-15 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: wnpp Owner: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-postgresql-perl Version : 1.23 Upstream Author : Toby Corkindale Kazuho Oku Peter Mottram plus v

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-02 Thread Don Armstrong
rted time?] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Don Armstrong
fixed. So RMs should continue to remove early, and remove often. [When this has happened with my packages (see lilypond), it's resulted in more people helping with the maintenance of them, and brought some issues to a wider audience.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstro

Bug#886238: Build-Profiles purpose, mechanism vs policy (was Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-18 Thread Don Armstrong
ng builds with an empty equivs package which satisfied the build-dependency. That could help give the involved parties (which does not include me) an idea of whether implementing such a feature was a worthwhile expenditure of their energy. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstron

Bug#886238: closed by Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-08 Thread Don Armstrong
nfiguration file, which is what new patches are needed to support. This is pretty classic bitrot of an underused/under-tested execution path. All of that said, if you are interested in Debian supporting a nosystemd build profile, continuing to escalate conflicts with other developers is not helping

Accepted autorandr 1.4-1 (source all) into unstable

2017-12-22 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:25:07 -0800 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstr

Accepted autorandr 1.3-2 (source all) into unstable

2017-12-21 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:09:25 -0800 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstr

Accepted autorandr 1.3-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

2017-12-19 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:49:57 -0800 Source: autorandr Binary: autorandr Architecture: source all Version: 1.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstr

Accepted libapache-gallery-perl 1.0.2-5 (source) into unstable

2017-11-02 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:17:27 -0700 Source: libapache-gallery-perl Binary: libapache-gallery-perl Architecture: source Version: 1.0.2-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-B

Bug#880373: ITP: autorandr -- Automatically select a display configuration for connected devices

2017-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> * Package name: autorandr Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Phillip Berndt * URL : https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Descr

Accepted unscd 0.52-2 (source) into unstable

2017-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:52:19 -0700 Source: unscd Binary: unscd Architecture: source Version: 0.52-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@d

Accepted perltidy 20170521-1 (source) into unstable

2017-10-24 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 10:18:21 -0700 Source: perltidy Binary: perltidy Architecture: source Version: 20170521-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstr

Accepted scowl 2017.08.24-1 (source) into unstable

2017-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
wcanadian-large wcanadian-huge wcanadian-insane hunspell-en-us hunspell-en-au hunspell-en-ca Architecture: source Version: 2017.08.24-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: hu

Re: Mail templates

2017-09-05 Thread Don Armstrong
ls to this address. I did not subscribe to this For lists.debian.org lists, please just forward these e-mails to listmas...@lists.debian.org. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad s

Accepted lilypond 2.18.2-9 (source all amd64) into unstable

2017-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files) lilypond-doc - LilyPond Documentation in info format (and meta package) lilyp

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-18 Thread Don Armstrong
g, make the best case you can for it in one message, and hope for the best. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Rule 6: "If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it." -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_

Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Previously I could ask a user to do e.g. 'ifconfig wwan0'. Now? sudo ip link; sudo ip addr; and probably also: sudo iw dev|awk '/^phy/'|xargs -IIFACE sudo iw IFACE info -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com What I ca

Accepted perltidy 20140328-2 (source all) into unstable

2017-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 12:41:30 -0700 Source: perltidy Binary: perltidy Architecture: source all Version: 20140328-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstr

Accepted scowl 2017.01.22-1 (source all) into unstable

2017-04-09 Thread Don Armstrong
wcanadian-large wcanadian-huge wcanadian-insane Architecture: source all Version: 2017.01.22-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: scowl - Spell-Checker Oriented Word List

Re: Code in Description [Was: Re: node-tty-browserify_0.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED]

2017-02-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On വെള്ളി 10 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2017 09:36 വൈകു, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I wonder if this was a case of the code not being sufficient > > description? [IE, code and a good text description would be accepted, > > but code only was not?] >

Code in Description [Was: Re: node-tty-browserify_0.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED]

2017-02-10 Thread Don Armstrong
the code not being sufficient description? [IE, code and a good text description would be accepted, but code only was not?] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Rule 6: "If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it." -- Howar

Re: [Fwd: [Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#472304: marked as done (fpc: doesn't link dynamically)]

2017-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
opment and keeping my packages in some semblance of shape.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums,

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
At least that was the case when I benchmarked on Lintian in 2.5.10 (2 > releases ago). Neat. I'd love a perlio layer which enabled me to do something like: open($fh,'<:anyuncompress:encoding(UTF-8)',$file) [...] too, as the archive has moved away from gzip to xz. -- Don Ar

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
this out, I've been working instead on making this whole code section use a real database, which it really should have been doing the entire time... but it still needs to work in the meantime. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Science is a way of trying not to fool

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
> sometimes run scripts by saying `bash /path/to/script' or `sh > /path/to/script'. (This doesn't seem to be a problem in debbugs.) Yeah, the -e was inherited, but it has both as you note. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "The trouble with you, Ib

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2016-12-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: > Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Migration despite an RC bug?"): > > I'm still not quite sure how the script was failing. The outer shell > > invocation which calls a perl script to do the versioning database > > update is run w

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2016-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
the logic which was in the bash script originally so if it fails, it should at least do so gracefully. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in

Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?

2016-12-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 17 Dec 2016, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:51:49AM -0600, Don Armstrong wrote: > > That was me; sorry about that. Presumably you got all of the copies > > because they were to different aliases which eventually ended up hitting > > you. > >

Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?

2016-12-15 Thread Don Armstrong
[I had to unarchive a slew of bugs which were archived because of a versioning screwup.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of fussy little

Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?

2016-12-15 Thread Don Armstrong
ile:- fields:originator|sort|uniq will give you the unique email addresses. [Well, realname + e-mail addresses.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
but we are using it for Debian mailing lists. [I'd certainly accept a patch to enable clamav; I personally haven't had time to readdress using it.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free

Re: "Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
/or write additional tools to make things easier.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com unbeingdead isn't beingalive -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_

Re: Is the reason for closing the bug 837459 appropriate here?

2016-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
ently marked as open in stable, which reflects the current status. Someone who wants could potentially upload a backport, but that's in no way a requirement. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In bo

Re: Bug#837723: Removing/Disabling the general psuedo package; refering to debian-u...@lists.debian.org

2016-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
Control: affects -1 reportbug On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 03:24:49PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Package: bugs.debian.org > > I think this is the wrong package and should rather be handled by > reportbug… bugs.debian.org controls whe

Bug#837723: Removing/Disabling the general psuedo package; refering to debian-u...@lists.debian.org

2016-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
e submitter to communicate with debian-user or another mailing list to figure out the appropriate package and/or pseudopackage. Does anyone have a strong objection to this? -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a

Re: lirc and new upstream release, can we update?

2016-09-12 Thread Don Armstrong
some time, I see no reason why you could "join the team", and then basically take over the maintenance of this package. Gregor made the last upload of this package, so that might be one person who could sponsor it. Otherwise, I'd suggest following the normal mentors.debian.net approach.

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-29 Thread Don Armstrong
o be sure that somebody takes > care of their interests. Policy is not a tool to beat developers with; it's a method of documenting convention so that we can build a distribution of packages which interact. Like most documentation of convention, it tends to lag behind when convention changes. -- D

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
tly more punitive with some of the rulesets that we have in place. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal tragedy on an almost daily

Accepted debian-policy 3.9.8.0 (source all) into unstable

2016-04-05 Thread Don Armstrong
hanged-By: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Description: debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents Closes: 707851 Changes: debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium . * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported. Wording: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org

Accepted spamass-milter 0.4.0-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2016-03-14 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:45:55 -0700 Source: spamass-milter Binary: spamass-milter Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.4.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Arm

Re: Can "PDB" license be considered free ?

2016-03-07 Thread Don Armstrong
US, so the licensing terms can largely be ignored. However, that may not be true of other jurisdictions. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick Douglass

Re: [Pkg-php-pecl] Bug#816265: Bug#816265: Bug#816265: Bug#816265: php-geoip: FTBFS: libtool: No such file or directory

2016-02-29 Thread Don Armstrong
dds update the versions, fixing whatever bugs are causing them not to be updated. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com [I]t's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved. -- Terry Pratchett _Snuff_ p185

Accepted unscd 0.52-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2015-12-28 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:40:56 -0800 Source: unscd Binary: unscd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.52-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Changed-By: Don Armstrong <d...@d

Re: Bug#804315: Renaming package live-build-ng to live-wrapper

2015-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
rt of worked, but the feedback wasn't the kind I was looking for. Thank you for your apology, changing the name, and most importantly, your continuing work in this area (and the work of everyone else who has contributed to making the debian-live, cdimage, and debian installer projects successfu

Re: init script, installed but not activated

2015-10-08 Thread Don Armstrong
on a machine and not on another without to > much hassle or cumbersome man systemd.preset; should do what you're looking for. You can then systemctl enable unit; later. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities,

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-09-01 Thread Don Armstrong
o is really important, and requires source code. I mean, we're still working with upstreams who write C code, and that's been non-controversial for decades. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppressi

Re: Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

2015-08-30 Thread Don Armstrong
, and also strongly recommend that manufacturers and distributors provide all source code, but that also didn't succeed. So while some time has passed since then, I'm not sure that voting will actually produce a very clear statement either way. -- Don Armstrong http

Replacement Default Icons for Iceweasel [was Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality]

2015-07-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Don Armstrong wrote: This is why I said if they're necessary, then they're necessary. Here's a set of default icons which can trivially be expanded to avoid shipping those icons and downloading them: for icon in ebay google wikipedia bing; do convert -size 16x16

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-16 Thread Don Armstrong
to update the icons when it visits one of the configured sites?] Since I haven't read the code,[1] this might be too much work, but I was thinking about shipping 1x1.png for those icons, and then having them be updated if and when a user actually visits those sites. -- Don Armstrong

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-16 Thread Don Armstrong
of information seems to be necessary in order to use most modern devices... that ship has sailed, and we're just fighting a rearguard action now.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: On 07/16/2015 08:29 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Simon Richter wrote: The problem is that the icons are displayed in the search field dropdown, which should be fully functional before visiting the first site

Re: Bug#790399: ITP: structlog -- tructured Logging for Python

2015-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
more crazy cases where src:A produces bin:B and src:B produces bin:A. 1: For example, they're currently producing bin:foo8, and are eventually going to be producing bin:foo9, then calling the source src:foo seems reasonable. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I'm

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
to help clarify communication, but anyone can do that, really. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: mass mailing usertagged bug reports

2015-03-05 Thread Don Armstrong
not aware of one, but I'd certainly be willing to help someone do the retrieving usertags bit of it. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I have no use for before and after pictures. I can't remember starting, and I'm never done. -- a softer world #221 http

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
in psuedo packages jessie-ignore; they're ignored for the purpose of releasing jessie anyway. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses. -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
compose file) suitably filled out, you can type Multi_key . . . to generate …. Multi_key period period period : … U2026 # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS The advantage of using XCompose is that many of the keybindings actually make some sort of logical sense, like multi++3 makes ♥. -- Don

Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:50:56AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Multi_key period period period : … U2026 # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS That's a bad idea as another default combination is a prefix of that: Multi_key period period which gets

Accepted debbugs 2.4.1.1 (source all) into unstable

2015-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:04:08 -0800 Source: debbugs Binary: debbugs Architecture: source all Version: 2.4.1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debbugs developers debian-debb...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Don

Re: Who gets an email when with bugreports [was: Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package]

2015-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
by reportbug to insert a X- header identifying the author of the next bug reports. Something along these lines is what I'm planning on doing. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_

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