Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-21 Thread Niels Thykier
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel: I tried it on one of my package silx warning: File: ./debian/tests/control:22:14:22:19: It is possible that the value is a typo of "i386". [Correctable via --auto-fix] 22: Architecture: !i386 It seems wrong to me, the test control file allow !i386 Cheers

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Tille: Hi Niels, at first sorry for my late answer. At Thu, May 09, 2024 Niels Thykier wrote: [...] >> For me, lintian fails in all roles it has. It is not a good tool for newbies to get help, since it can only test build artifacts. As an example, your feedback look is

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Soren Stoutner: I would like to respectfully disagree will some of the opinions expressed in this email. Hi Soren Not sure if we disagree all that much to be honest. :) First, I should say that I am painfully aware of how long it takes to run lintian on large packages. When working on

New editor integrations for Debian packaging files (LSP support)

2024-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Sent to d-devel and d-mentors, since the members of both lists are the target audience. If you reply, please consider whether both lists should see the message (and prune the recipient list accordingly as necessary). In response to a recent thread on debian-devel about editor support for

Re: [Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-27 Thread Niels Thykier
tho...@goirand.fr: [...] Hi Niels, Thanks a lot for your work on this, I very much agreed with the premiss that subst vars were a thing easy to fall into traps. It is a very welcomed improvement to automate them and avoid mistakes. Is there a place where you wrote some kind of doc about

Re: [Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: Hi It seems the discussion on this topic has settled, so I am now doing a summary of the discussion as I understand it.  * Generally, the original proposal seems to have been received    favorably at a conceptual level. [...] A follow up on this: * The proposal is now

[Summary]: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-03-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi It seems the discussion on this topic has settled, so I am now doing a summary of the discussion as I understand it. * Generally, the original proposal seems to have been received favorably at a conceptual level. * Several people requested the scope to be expanded to extra fields.

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Gioele Barabucci: On 24/02/24 11:26, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: I think there are some packages that even demote `${shlibs:Depends}` to Recommends. Absolutely. collectd for example - otherwise you would install *all* plugin dependencies

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Steve Langasek: Hi Niels, On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 07:32:21PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] I am omitting Breaks, Conflicts, and Replaces because I am not aware of any users of these at the moment. I am open to adding them, if there is a strong use-case. One generic case

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Guillem Jover: Hi! On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 19:32:21 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] Right, this is annoying. This was actually brought up some time ago (2010) in debian-devel as part of #597340. There was not much reaction at the time (one good, a couple bad). I reinvented a decade old

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Niels Thykier
IOhannes m zmölnig: [...] While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these automatic additions. I think there are some packages that even demote `${shlibs:Depends}` to Recommends. mfh.her.fsr IOhannes I had the same conceptual concern when I originally thought about

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 20:43:21 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Simon McVittie: On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 19:32:21 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: We could also make unused substvars a hard failure (FTBFS). I'd prefer not this Reminder: My proposal only covers ${foo:Depends

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Boyuan Yang: [...] Can we also consider ${*:Built-Using} as typically seen in ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using}? This is another field that people keep forget adding. While missing this field is not severely harmful, having it automatically handled would be beneficial. Thanks, Boyuan Yang

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 19:32:21 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: I think our package helper tooling should just automatically aggregate all provided substvars of the format ${*:Depends} and append it the Depends field. Rinse and repeat for other relationship fields. I recently

Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Our current way of dealing with package relationship substvars such as ${misc:Depends} has been annoying me for a while. As it is, we are stuck in this way setup where the "Depends" field in debian/control is de facto mandatory. It is an RC bug (waiting to happen) if you omit ${misc:Depends}

Re: Editor extensions to help editing debian/* files?

2024-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Otto Kekäläinen: Hi! Thanks for the tip, Niels! It would be cool if dh_assistant had some kind of generic command like "dh_assistant validate" which would attempt to introspect all information silently and emit output only if it fails to parse something. That might be an option. The question

Re: Editor extensions to help editing debian/* files?

2024-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: [...] Btw, `debhelper` has a `dh_assistant` command that can do some very basic analysis as well. Not sure any of it is useful for editor integration (especially because some of the features requires that it receives the same arguments as `dh` or/and `dh_auto_configure

Re: Editor extensions to help editing debian/* files?

2024-01-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Otto Kekäläinen: Hi! What editors and extensions are you using to augment your productivity and minimize mistakes when editing debian/* files? I am aware of dpkg-dev-el for Emacs mentioned in the DD reference[1]. I am a big fan of Pulsar[2] and recently found a 'language-debian' plugin for

Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2023-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Otto Kekäläinen: Hi! Currently Lintian requires a (source or binary) package to check[1]. However, many of the Lintian source package checks (e.g. spelling of debian/changelog entries) don't strictly depend on anything being built. Is anyone aware of a way to run lintian directly on a debian/

Re: dropping Priority field from binary packages for most packages

2023-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Ansgar: Hi, could we drop the Priority field from most packages? Most packages use "Priority: optional" and this is just noise in d/control (source package). Tools should just assume "optional" when no other value is set. [...] I would like to drop it pretty much everywhere, most importantly

Re: 32bit arch packages are built with wrong ownership due to fakeroot bug

2023-02-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 03:18:16 +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Quoting Santiago Vila (2023-02-09 17:32:08) - No intervention from individual maintainers is required for fixing this, as we already have a binNMU mechanism which we already use for transitions.

Bug#1029645: ITP: debputy -- Manifest style debian package builder

2023-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, ni...@thykier.net * Package name: debputy Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Niels Thykier * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debputy/ * License : GPL-2

Re: dh_auto_test fails and I do not understand why

2022-12-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Andrius Merkys: Hello, On 2022-12-15 11:20, Filippo Rusconi wrote: I have uploaded a package yesterday. That package does not have any dh_auto_test target in d/rules. The builds all fail, as described here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=minexpert2 and I do not understand

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2022-12-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Jelmer Vernooij: Hi Lucas, On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [...] Jelmer, did you already think about that? Is there a way one could help you? Reviving this thread that's more than a year old... [...] Known issues that still need to be addressed: *

Re: Bug#903158: Multi-Arch: foreign and -dbgsym: too weak dependency

2022-10-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Sat, 08 Oct 2022 at 11:00:30 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:40:54 +0300 "Yuriy M. Kaminskiy" wrote: I think (at least, 'Multi-arch: foreign' *and* 'Architecture' != all) packages should have explicit parent package arch dependency Depend:

Bug#903158: Multi-Arch: foreign and -dbgsym: too weak dependency

2022-10-08 Thread Niels Thykier
. Thanks, ~Niels On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 21:04:59 +0200 Helmut Grohne wrote: Hi Niels, On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 08:38:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:40:54 +0300 "Yuriy M. Kaminskiy" > wrote: > > I think (at least, 'Multi-arch: foreign' *and* 'Architecture

Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages

2022-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Paul Wise: On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 07:13 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: * Packages not meant to be included in Debian (and without access to a changelog server): Creators that want to preserve the full history can use the `--no-trim` option to disable the trimming. Most derivatives aren't

Re: releasing major library change to unstable without coordination

2021-12-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Sandro Tosi: > and lets use once again numpy: 2 days ago i've uploaded 1.21.5 to > replace 1.21.4 in unstable. [...] > > Regards, Hi, If you feel discussing patch releases is worth a topic of its own, I think we should start a separate thread for that because the process is likely to be

Re: dh_clean fails with diagnostics involving cp, checksums, and a "bucket"

2021-10-28 Thread Niels Thykier
G. Branden Robinson: > Hi folks, > > It's been a while since I've done any packaging. I was baffled when > presented with the following. > >dh_clean > cp: cannot stat > 'debian/.debhelper/bucket/files/19c12bb2ca19e68724c2854ed0512469518df19b0710cc2011a5ca540810979c': > No such file or

Re: How to use remove-on-upgrade to remove a configuration file?

2021-08-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Ludovic Rousseau: >> Hello Niels, >> >> Le 08/08/2021 à 09:09, Niels Thykier a écrit : >>> Ludovic Rousseau: >>>> [...] >>> >>> Hi Ludovic, >>> >>> You cannot use that feature yet as it would break durin

Re: Debhelper and /lib/systemd vs /usr/lib/systemd

2021-08-26 Thread Niels Thykier
Sam Hartman: >>>>>> "Niels" == Niels Thykier writes: > > Niels> If the project consensus of this discussion is aligned with > Niels> the belief that we should block decentralized volunteer work > Niels> on the transition, I will r

Re: Debhelper and /lib/systemd vs /usr/lib/systemd

2021-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon Richter: > Hi, > > On 25.08.21 21:45, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> The dpkg maintainer hasn't been happy with the discussions here, and >> I think facilitating to a level where Guillem is part of the >> consensus is beyond my skill. > > The discussion so far has been around the question

Re: Debhelper and /lib/systemd vs /usr/lib/systemd

2021-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Sam Hartman: >>>>>> "Niels" == Niels Thykier writes: > > Niels> As I understand it, the issue does not depend on whether > Niels> "usrmerge" is run before or after installing the "/lib" > Niels> version of

Re: Debhelper and /lib/systemd vs /usr/lib/systemd

2021-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Sam Hartman: > > TL;DR: Should we hold off on moving stuff from / to /usr in packages > until we develop our plan? > If so, how do we communicate that to people? > >> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: > > Russ> Simon Richter writes: > >> It is less nonsensical because usrmerge

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Timothy M Butterworth: > All, > > I just ran across this article > https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested > the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root > shell prompt. > > Tim > Hi Tim, All of the attacks presented assumes that the

Re: How to use remove-on-upgrade to remove a configuration file?

2021-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Ludovic Rousseau: > Hello Niels, > > Le 08/08/2021 à 09:09, Niels Thykier a écrit : >> Ludovic Rousseau: >>> [...] >> >> Hi Ludovic, >> >> You cannot use that feature yet as it would break during upgrade. The >> dpkg version in s

Re: How to use remove-on-upgrade to remove a configuration file?

2021-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Ludovic Rousseau: > Hello, > > I am fixing Debian bug #990154. > > After some work I am able to remove the obsolete conf file using: > rm_conffile /etc/reader.conf.d/0comments 1.9.3-2~ pcscd > in debian/pcscd.maintscript > > Nice. > Now I would like to use the method documented in deb-conffiles

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: > Quoting Michael Biebl (2021-07-19 15:10:42) >> [...] >> >> According to >> apt-file search -x '^/(lib|bin|sbin)' >> on my Debian sid/amd64 system, we have 1747 packages shipping 24583 >> files in those directories. > > more precisely, on amd64 unstable: > >

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi participants, If you follow up on this thread, then please move it to mailing lists that are more politically focused such as -vote (given it is a response to vote). The topic certainly off-topic for debian-devel, which has the following tag line for content: Discussion about *technical

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable >> normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change. >> Instead, I propose this as

Re: deduplicating jquery/

2020-11-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: > The root problem, at least as I understand it, is that the two relevant > upstreams (and probably lots more) have followed those practices to vendor > and pin versions of jQuery, and are not regularly updating those pins, so > the current version in Debian may or may not work. As

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Christian Kastner: > On 2020-09-06 23:27, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >> The thing is, according to the build profile spec, if you specify nodoc >> or nocheck in _PROFILES you *MUST* also specify it on _OPTIONS (talking >> about when

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Mattia Rizzolo: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > [...] >> Or do dpkg or debhelper apply some kind of mapping logic from _OPTIONS >> to _PROFILES for the popular options nocheck, nodoc, noopt? > > debhelper does. various helpers do things differently with

Intend to remove obsolete debhelper compat levels 5 and 6 before the release of bookworm (bullseye + 1)

2020-07-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, This is a heads up about my intention to remove debhelper compat levels 5 and 6. This is also an intention to do a MFB for this removal now at severity important, which will be bumped to RC later. With the current rate of migration as well as the current number of RC bugs in testing, I

[Summary]: RFC: Standardizing source package artifacts build paths

2020-05-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Guillem Jover: > Hi! > > We currently have many built artifacts being dropped directly under > debian/ or under tool specific directories such as debian/.debhelper/. > These have at least the following problems: > > - Make cleaning, an operation that requires executing code from the >

Re: RFC: Standardizing source package artifacts build paths

2020-04-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Tue 14 Apr 2020 at 10:54AM +02, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> Guillem and I have debated this and come to a solution, which we believe >> will be able to address the concerns about the path being "hidden". It >> also enables us to

Re: RFC: Standardizing source package artifacts build paths

2020-04-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Sam Hartman: > I'm concerned about a leading . at least for: > > * the debian/tmp replacement > * the replacement for the package install directories under debian. > > I think that maintaining those directories such that ls shows them will > be more friendly for new maintainers. > So I'd prefer

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Sat 04 Apr 2020 at 09:28AM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> Well, no, there doesn't seem to be any serious user-visible issues. >> >> That's why I keep wondering whether it makes sense to just keep all this >> technical debt around. > > It could be useful to

Re: Bug#954313: dh_installchangelogs: provide option to strip off old changelog entries

2020-03-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Michael Biebl: > Package: debhelper > Version: 12.9 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. :) (CC'ing d-devel because I think this is relevant to the discussion there) > some packages have a very detailed debian/changelog which goes back >

Standardized way of extracting additional build-time artefacts (was: Re: RFC: Standardizing source package artifacts build paths)

2020-03-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: > On Mon, 09 Mar 2020 at 20:45:13 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Simon McVittie: >>> For example, dpkg-buildpackage could perhaps read one glob per >>> line from debian/artifacts and hardlink matched files (if any) into >>> debian/.build/a

Re: RFC: Standardizing source package artifacts build paths

2020-03-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: Hi :) > On Mon, 09 Mar 2020 at 10:09:46 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> We'd like to standardize on a new set of artifact build pathnames >> for our deb toolchain. These would have the following form: >> >> - debian/.build/upstream* >> >> These could be used for out-of-tree

Re: News about the debhelper toolchain

2020-02-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Hideki Yamane: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:37:05 +0100 > Niels Thykier wrote: >> Remember to *remove* "--with python3" from d/rules as well. An explicit >> "--with python3" will cause issues with Build-Depends-Indep and other >> conditional usage (e.g. b

Re: News about the debhelper toolchain

2020-02-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Hideki Yamane: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 15:38:14 +0100 > Niels Thykier wrote: >> * The "dh-sequence- build-dependency" to replace the >>"--with " parameter to dh in the debian/rules. >>- Note that third-party add-ons may not have added the rele

Re: call for ftpmaster's transparency

2020-02-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Michael Lustfield: > [...] > > I too would love to engage in a civil discussion about ways to improve the > situation. Let's start with this- > > Why do reviews take so long? > - The team is tiny > - Much of the team seems very burned out > - The ones that are active tend to stick to source or

Re: News about the debhelper toolchain

2020-02-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Paul Wise: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 2:39 PM Niels Thykier wrote: > >> * debhelper generate a temporary writable directory for $HOME >>and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR plus clear all remaining XDG_* variables. >>This simplifies packaging of tools that insist on writing t

Accepted debhelper 12.9 (source) into unstable

2020-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:45:05 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 568897 885994 949396 949538 949635

Accepted debhelper 12.8 (source) into unstable

2020-01-19 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:02:16 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 198507 885994 906723 917368 944478

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: > [...] > > The opentmpfiles and opensysusers packaging will need to arrange to do > something analogous, most likely in cooperation with dh_installsystemd > or some other debhelper step for the first two points, and with LSB init > scripts for the tasks where systemd uses

Accepted debhelper 12.7.3 (source) into unstable

2019-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:59:47 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.7.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 946655 947506 Changes: debhelper

Accepted debhelper 12.7.2 (source) into unstable

2019-12-07 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 17:44:32 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.7.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 933799 942111 943705 943853 944225

Accepted debhelper 12.7.1 (source) into unstable

2019-10-26 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 06:42:04 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.7.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 943376 Changes: debhelper (12.7.1

Accepted debhelper 12.7 (source) into unstable

2019-10-20 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:48:06 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 933576 941245 942454 942690 Changes

Accepted debhelper 12.6.1 (source) into unstable

2019-09-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 10:08:53 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.6.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Changes: debhelper (12.6.1) unstable

Accepted debhelper 12.6 (source all) into experimental, experimental

2019-09-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Thykier Description: debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules dh-systemd - debhelper add-on to handle systemd unit files - transitional pack libdebhelper-perl - debhelper perl modules Closes: 821130 939164 939635 Changes: debhelper (12.6) experimental; urgency=medium . [ Niels Thykier

Accepted debhelper 12.5.4 (source) into unstable

2019-09-01 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 07:23:05 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.5.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 935577 935780 Changes: debhelper

Accepted wily 0.13.41-8 (source) into unstable

2019-08-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:11:18 + Source: wily Architecture: source Version: 0.13.41-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 438263 882542 Changes: wily (0.13.41-8

Accepted debhelper 12.5.3 (source) into unstable

2019-08-19 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:50:19 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.5.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 934999 935017 Changes: debhelper

Accepted debhelper 12.5.2 (source) into unstable

2019-08-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:36:20 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.5.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Changes: debhelper (12.5.2) unstable

Accepted debhelper 12.5.1 (source) into unstable

2019-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:09:07 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.5.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Changes: debhelper (12.5.1) unstable

Accepted debhelper 12.5 (source) into unstable

2019-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 10:54:08 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 836699 907061 934889 934891 Changes

Accepted debhelper 12.4 (source) into unstable

2019-08-12 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:07:01 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 932537 Changes: debhelper (12.4

Accepted debhelper 12.3 (source) into unstable

2019-08-06 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:55:26 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 927394 931792 932646 933212 933541

Accepted debhelper 12.2.3 (source) into unstable

2019-07-19 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:18:03 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.2.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 932073 932262 Changes: debhelper

Accepted debhelper 12.2.2 (source) into unstable

2019-07-16 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:03:38 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.2.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 932240 Changes: debhelper (12.2.2

Accepted debhelper 12.2.1 (source) into unstable

2019-07-16 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:21:32 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 932073 Changes: debhelper (12.2.1

Accepted docbook-xml 4.5-9 (source) into unstable

2019-07-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:37:11 + Source: docbook-xml Architecture: source Version: 4.5-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Niels Thykier Changes: docbook-xml (4.5-9) unstable; urgency

Accepted debhelper 12.2 (source) into unstable

2019-07-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:29:20 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 25235 462389 886279 912999 923626

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: >> Thanks to this new Lintian tag, the current situation is that packages >> won't pass NEW without a SysV init script (unless a FTP-masters ignore >> this specific tag despite its severity). > I haven't worked on Lintian in several years, so perhaps my information is > stale, but at

Could we generate d/control instead of working with "assembly level code" directly (was: Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files)

2019-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: > On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 at 19:23:39 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] >> If the udeb stanzas in debian/control have "Build-Profiles: ", >> then debhelper will honour that when deciding which packages to build, >> so yes, anything built into debhelper should just work. > > Treating

Re: dh_systemd_enable and instances of unit-file templates

2019-07-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Andrej Shadura: > Hi, > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 20:02, Konrad, Martin wrote: >> I'm packaging a logging service for buster. Users typically only need to >> run one instance but power users might want to run multiple instances. >> This sounds like a perfect use case for systemd templates [1] to

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Thomas Goirand: > On 6/10/19 8:46 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> However, at no point in this, can I understand how highlighting disdain >> for certain people (or what their "title") would help with anything in >> this endeavour (or any other cause for that matter).

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Adam Borowski: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 09:46:37AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: >> [...] > >> As others have mentioned, I hope that Debian remains a project that >> makes it evermore welcoming to individuals > > Yeah but one of our core values is "we do not hide problems". I'd rather > lash out

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 28 mai 2019 06:30 +00, Niels Thykier : > >> I.e. with the proper implementation of "make-it-work" (in the lack of a >> better name - maybe something "fetch-and-build"), the following should >> be possible >> >> "&

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 28 mai 2019 08:59 +08, Paul Wise : > >>> People using tools like fpm will never get familiar with our tools and >>> will never be contributors. >> >> I enjoyed your blog post about pragmatic packaging using Debian's >> tools instead of fpm, it seems like a good approach if

Accepted marble 4:17.08.3-3.2 (source) into unstable

2019-05-23 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 07:16:42 + Source: marble Architecture: source Version: 4:17.08.3-3.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 923592 Changes

Accepted tilda 1.4.1-2.1 (source) into unstable

2019-05-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 13:04:23 + Source: tilda Architecture: source Version: 1.4.1-2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Sebastian Geiger Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 904309 Changes: tilda (1.4.1-2.1

Accepted dh-exec 0.23.2 (source) into unstable

2019-05-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 12:44:04 + Source: dh-exec Architecture: source Version: 0.23.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Niels Thykier Changes: dh-exec (0.23.2) unstable; urgency=medium

Re: fixing debian-security-support upgrades from stretch (for good)

2019-05-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Mon 13 May 2019 at 11:52AM +00, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> [re-sent with debian-release list address corrected...] > > Also resending. Sorry. > >> so there is "#928172 debian-security-support: fails to upgrade from >> 'testing': >> dpkg: error: error executing

Accepted debian-archive-keyring 2019.1 (source) into unstable

2019-04-23 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:42:28 +0200 Source: debian-archive-keyring Architecture: source Version: 2019.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Release Team Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 912214 917535 917536

Accepted javatools 0.72.9 (source) into unstable

2019-04-21 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 06:43:12 + Source: javatools Architecture: source Version: 0.72.9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 927676 Changes: javatools

Accepted jtb 1.4.12-2 (source) into unstable

2019-04-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:43:38 + Source: jtb Architecture: source Version: 1.4.12-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 927243 Changes: jtb (1.4.12-2) unstable

Re: Introducting Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and "packages smells"

2019-04-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Tille: > Hi Niels, > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:54:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> speaking about false positives: >>> >>>libhmsbeagle (U) should switch to dh. Current build system: >>> debhelper (source version: 3.1.2+d

Re: Introducting Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and "packages smells"

2019-04-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Tille: > Hi again, > > speaking about false positives: > >libhmsbeagle (U) should switch to dh. Current build system: > debhelper (source version: 3.1.2+dfsg-5) > > I have no idea what might have triggered this on the current d/rules > file[1]. > > Kind regards > >

Re: Introducting Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and "packages smells"

2019-04-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Lucas Nussbaum: > On 16/04/19 at 08:52 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 05:35:40PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:55:12PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: biococoa (U) does not use Debhelper (no compat level found) (source

Accepted javatools 0.72.8 (source) into unstable

2019-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:18:04 + Source: javatools Architecture: source Version: 0.72.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 925507 926542 Changes

Re: Seeking hardening flag / blhc expoert

2019-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Otto Kekäläinen: > So apparently the 'D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' is in CPPFLAGS (not read by > cmake) but not in CXXFLAGS (read by cmake)[1]. > > So maybe I should define? > CXXFLAGS=$(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) > You have to with cmake, yes. I believe debhelper carries a similar work around (for CXXFLAGS

Accepted javatools 0.72.7 (source) into unstable

2019-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:25:16 + Source: javatools Architecture: source Version: 0.72.7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 924328 925507 Changes

Accepted javatools 0.72.6 (source) into unstable

2019-03-17 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:20:20 + Source: javatools Architecture: source Version: 0.72.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 924653 Changes: javatools

Accepted javatools 0.72.2 (source) into unstable

2019-02-24 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:20:17 + Source: javatools Architecture: source Version: 0.72.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Changes: javatools (0.72.2) unstable

Accepted debhelper 12.1.1 (source) into unstable

2019-02-23 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 13:24:47 + Source: debhelper Architecture: source Version: 12.1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers Changed-By: Niels Thykier Closes: 922267 922990 Changes: debhelper

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