Bug#822730: initramfs-tools: Should we migrate to a "interest-noawait" trigger for update-initramfs -u?

2020-04-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: reassign -1 debhelper On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 02:03:21 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 07:35 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:29:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote: > > > Control: block 491027 by -1 > > > > > > On S

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Mattia Rizzolo: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries >> only in the source package? If so, should this be done manually, or >> would it make sense to have dh_installchangelogs split at some age or >>

Bug#822730: initramfs-tools: Should we migrate to a "interest-noawait" trigger for update-initramfs -u?

2018-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:29:00 + Niels Thykier wrote: > Control: block 491027 by -1 > > On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:51:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:10:14 +0200 Niels Thykier wrote: > > > Package: initramfs-tools > > > Versio

Bug#822730: initramfs-tools: Should we migrate to a "interest-noawait" trigger for update-initramfs -u?

2017-12-31 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: block 491027 by -1 On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:51:00 + Niels Thykier wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:10:14 +0200 Niels Thykier wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.125 > > Severity: wishlist > > Usertags: declarative-packaging > > >

Re: [debhelper-devel] Bug#198507: dh_install: fails if filenames have an embedded space

2017-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
clone 198507 -1 retitle -1 debhelper: Regression in arguments handling found -1 10.6 severity -1 grave tags -1 = confirmed submitter -1 b...@decadent.org.uk thanks Ben Hutchings: > On Sun, 2017-07-09 at 20:29 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Ben Hutchings: >>> On Sun, 2017-07

Re: [debhelper-devel] Bug#198507: dh_install: fails if filenames have an embedded space

2017-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > On Sun, 2017-07-09 at 19:58 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Ben Hutchings: >>> It looks like this was quietly fixed somewhere between 10.2.5 and >>> 10.6.2, maybe in 10.5.1 by: >>> >>> * dh_install: Optimize some patterns into bulked &

Re: [debhelper-devel] Bug#198507: dh_install: fails if filenames have an embedded space

2017-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > It looks like this was quietly fixed somewhere between 10.2.5 and > 10.6.2, maybe in 10.5.1 by: > > * dh_install: Optimize some patterns into bulked "cp" calls. This > optimization is only applicable in some cases (notably, it is always > disabled by --exclude). > > Th

Bug#822730: initramfs-tools: Should we migrate to a "interest-noawait" trigger for update-initramfs -u?

2017-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:10:14 +0200 Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.125 > Severity: wishlist > Usertags: declarative-packaging > > Hi, > Hi, Any comments on this? :) Thanks, ~Niels PS: Quoted in full below for your convenience. :) > T

Re: Stable update request: kernel changes to fix PIE with large stack

2017-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > On Sat, 2017-04-22 at 20:07 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] >> Hi Ben, >> >> Could you please file a pu bug for this? I fear that otherwise, it >> might be overlooked for the next time the SRMs review the outstanding >> stable update requ

Re: Stable update request: kernel changes to fix PIE with large stack

2017-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 17:06 +, James Cowgill wrote: > [...] >> The reason the program and the heap are at these very high addresses is >> that xsltproc is built with PIE and the kernel is treating the >> executable like a mmap and grouping it with all the other libraries. In >>

Re: Resolving the kernel debug symbols vs signing problem

2017-04-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > [...] >> >> I am probably missing something here, but wouldn't it be possible to go >> back to the original -dbg (as a "worst case" option) and defer these >> changes to buster? Not saying I like it, I just want to know whether I >> missed something. > > We could do, but do you t

Bug#854880: Fwd: firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code

2017-04-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 14:41 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:29:05 +0100 Jan Luca Naumann >>> wrote: >>> Dear Linux-Firmware-Maintainers, >>> >>> as reported in the Debian bug report #854880[1] (mail attached belo

Re: Resolving the kernel debug symbols vs signing problem

2017-04-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > When implementing signed kernel packages, I wanted to make the signed > image packages (built from linux-signed) take un-suffixed names so that > existing procedures to install specific kernel versions would pick the > signed packages, and users would be discouraged from installing

Re: Bug#859725: Acknowledgement (x11-common: Each time my screen standby, system crash)

2017-04-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: retitle -1 linux: kernel trace - pipe A vblank wait timed out Control: found -1 4.10.7-1~exp1 Control: tags -1 moreinfo Control: severity -1 important Hi Alexandre, Thanks for confirming and providing this stack trace. It appears to be a kernel trace for s

Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2

2017-04-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Robbie Harwood: > Niels Thykier writes: > >> Ok - as I understand it, what we are dealing with here is: >> >> * systemd: You can get gssproxy + NFS and it "just works(tm)" if >>you install gssproxy. Otherwise you get svcgssd + NFS. >>(This

Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2

2017-04-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Robbie Harwood: > Niels Thykier writes: > >> NeilBrown: >>> On Sun, Mar 05 2017, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> >>> The systemd unit files are designed so that svcgssd will only be >>> started if gssproxy didn't start - and gssproxy is tried f

Bug#854880: Fwd: firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code

2017-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:29:05 +0100 Jan Luca Naumann wrote: > Dear Linux-Firmware-Maintainers, > > as reported in the Debian bug report #854880[1] (mail attached below), > the firmware files ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.0.fw, > ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw has been created using GPL components and > thus

Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2

2017-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
NeilBrown: > On Sun, Mar 05 2017, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> [...] > > Yes, they can. > The systemd unit files are designed so that svcgssd will only be started > if gssproxy didn't start - and gssproxy is tried first. > > If you use something other than systemd, similar logic would be needed. >

[release-notes/stretch] Release notes sign-off from the kernel team

2017-04-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, There is a kernel team related item in the release checklist where we need input from the you[1]: Items are: * release-notes: KernelTeam signoff for specials with the Kernel Please review the release notes and file bugs for the missing items (if any) and let us know once this has been done.

Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2

2017-03-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 09:58:00 + Niels Thykier wrote: > Daniel Pocock: > > [...] > > > > Upstream is not really supporting rpc.svcgssd any more, they actually > > disabled it in the build so people can still have it as a transitional > > measure in stretch. &

Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2

2017-02-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Daniel Pocock: > On 04/02/17 10:50, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for bringing this up. >> >> Is this migration from rpc.svcgssd to gssproxy so important (release >> critical) that it ought to be granted an exception? And if so, why

Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2

2017-02-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo CC'ing the maintainer of nfs-common and the reporter of #848306. Robbie Harwood: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package gssproxy > > gssproxy has been 10 days in uns

Re: Debug symbol metapackages

2016-07-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > [Now with valid addresses] > > On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 14:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Currently the linux-latest source package builds a metapackage named >> linux-image--dbg for each kernel flavour that has a debug >> symbols package, with a dependency on that package. >> >>

Bug#822730: initramfs-tools: Should we migrate to a "interest-noawait" trigger for update-initramfs -u?

2016-04-26 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.125 Severity: wishlist Usertags: declarative-packaging Hi, The update-initramfs tool currently has a bit of magic for deferring changes during upgrades (by exploiting dpkg-trigger). This is fine, but I was wondering if we could perhaps add a file-based intere

[Decision] Kernel version for stretch

2016-02-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, On the Release Team's IRC meeting today we concluded the following[1]: * We expect to release Stretch with the LTS release based on Linux 4.10 * We intend to delay the freeze (all milestone dates) by 2 months to accommodate the above. - Note that the expected release date of Linux 4.1

Re: Kernel version for stretch

2016-02-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 07:34 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] >> >> Would you prefer that we moved future freezes (i.e. Buster and later), >> so we could always rely on Greg's branch? > > Yes, I would. > Ok, we will take it into cons

Re: Kernel version for stretch

2016-02-01 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Ben, Pulling in d-i on this, since they might be affected by this. If you know of a maintainer that would be similarly affected, let me know, so we can ask them as well. Ben Hutchings: > [...] > > For stretch, I would very much like to choose a kernel version for > stretch that gets longterm

Re: D-I Stretch Alpha 1: block-udeb * for a few days?

2015-07-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-07-13 01:36, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hello release team, > > Now that linux is built on all archs, we're able to contemplate a d-i > release. I'm wondering whether enabling all block-udeb entries from the > freeze hints file would be appropriate to make sure that no last moment > update r

Re: Uploading linux (3.16.7-ckt9-1)

2015-04-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-06 23:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 23:25 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2015-04-06 23:11, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> I intend to upload linux version 3.16.7-ckt9-1 to unstable tomorrow >>> evening (Tuesday 7th April). > [...] >>

Re: Uploading linux (3.16.7-ckt9-1)

2015-04-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-06 23:11, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I intend to upload linux version 3.16.7-ckt9-1 to unstable tomorrow > evening (Tuesday 7th April). > > The currently pending changes are: > - Many fixes from stable release 3.16.7-ckt{8,9} > - New hardware support: early console support on various system

Bug#780571: release-notes: Review from the kernel team

2015-03-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Dear kernel team, I am contacting you to do a final review of the release-notes for the kernel related topics (as listed on [1]) The only items I am currently aware of is: * https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.ht

Bug#776410: linux: FTBFS on arm64 - find: `debian/zlib-modules-3.16.0-4-arm64-di': No such file or directory

2015-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Source: linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-1 Severity: serious Hi, The linux source package FTBFS on arm64[1]. I have include the (hopefully) relevant part of the log below: """ These modules from 3.16.0-4-arm64 are unpackaged: kernel/arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-blk.ko [... long list of .k

Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1 (was: Bug#776192: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem)

2015-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: reassign -1 src:linux On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:09:18 -0800 Bill MacAllister wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Version: wheezy to jessie > > Problem Description: > Hi Bill, Thanks for reporting this issue. I have CC'ed the Debian linux maintainers as I noticed your kernel reports a n

Bug#775542: NFS exports fail due to rpcbind not starting before nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server

2015-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: severity 775542 important Hi, I am downgrading this bug as it is tagged moreinfo and unreproducible. If you still experience this issue, please follow up with more information and remove the "moreinfo" and "unreproducible" tags[1]. For the sake of clarity - this is about "NFS exports fa

Bug#622394: systemd: nfs-common and rpcbind unit files to fix systemd NFS issues properly

2015-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
s-kernel-server > Control: submitter -3 m...@mattgrant.net.nz > Control: tags -3 moreinfo unreproducible > Control: user release.debian@packages.debian.org > Control: usertag -2 - jessie-is-blocker > Control: usertag -3 - jessie-is-blocker > Control: tags 622394 unreproducible >

Bug#622394: systemd: nfs-common and rpcbind unit files to fix systemd NFS issues properly

2015-01-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, Can anyone provide me with an up to date status on this bug? It seems to be a mismatch of no less than 3 different bugs if I understand Simon's comment in message #41 correctly (see [1] for the full text). In particular, this bug is correctly marked as a Jessie blocker due to the current bug

Re: Testing promotion of libunwind

2014-02-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-08 07:22, Daigo Moriwaki wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> In other news, libunwind migrated last night (mail about is due in about >> 10 hours or so). The transition is still waiting for julia and >> linux-tools, which

Re: Testing promotion of libunwind

2014-02-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-02 12:47, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 11:05 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2014-02-02 02:27, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] >>> If my understanding is right, the transition can be completed quickly >>> once linux-tools is updated. Plea

Re: Testing promotion of libunwind

2014-02-02 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-02 02:27, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 08:01 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2014-02-01 02:36, Daigo Moriwaki wrote: >>> Hi team, >>> >> >> Hi, >> >>> [...] >> >> Until yesterday, it was not possible

Re: Testing promotion of libunwind

2014-01-31 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-01 02:36, Daigo Moriwaki wrote: > Hi team, > Hi, > Looking at buildd status, my 'libunwind' package has been "Installed" > successfully on all the architecture that the package is expected to be > built on. However, it has never entered testing. "Check why" [1] says that > libunwind7

Re: Linux 3.11

2013-11-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-17 20:32, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 20:01 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2013-11-17 19:30, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Linux 3.11 has at last successfully built on all architectures. >>> >>> The latest version (3.11.8-1) has o

Re: Linux 3.11

2013-11-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-17 19:30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Linux 3.11 has at last successfully built on all architectures. > > The latest version (3.11.8-1) has only been in unstable for 2 days, but > it has many important fixes and we really should get this into testing > before moving on to Linux 3.12. > > Pl

Bug#639462: linux-image: unable to access (some) USB disks

2011-08-28 Thread Niels Thykier
forwarded 639462 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41842 thanks On 2011-08-28 12:19, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > found 639462 linux-2.6/3.0.0-3 > quit > > Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2011-08-28 11:54, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> I don't believe the comm

Bug#639462: linux-image: unable to access (some) USB disks

2011-08-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-28 11:54, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Niels, > > Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2011-08-27 20:12, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> Weird. I don't see many potentially relevant recent changes upstream, >>> but there is v3.1-rc1~234^2 (EHCI: fix

Bug#639462: linux-image: unable to access (some) USB disks

2011-08-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-27 20:12, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Niels Thykier wrote: > >> I had a USB disk that used to work (I think back in Squeeze); "suddenly" >> it no longer got a device and I could not use it. It was not super >> important, so I did not f

Bug#639462: linux-image: unable to access (some) USB disks

2011-08-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-08-27 14:34, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: minor > > Hi > > I had a USB disk that used to work (I think back in Squeeze); "suddenly" > it no longer got a device and I could not use it. It was not super > important, so I did not

Bug#639462: linux-image: unable to access (some) USB disks

2011-08-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: minor Hi I had a USB disk that used to work (I think back in Squeeze); "suddenly" it no longer got a device and I could not use it. It was not super important, so I did not file the report back then. On my laptop I see the following in my dmesg log: """ (3.0.0-1-68

Bug#554272: Deferences NULL pointer in xfs

2009-11-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Version: 2.6.31-2 Hi Ben I still have an issue with xfs in 2.6.31-1-686; but this time it was not exactly a dereference of a NULL pointer but a failed "paging request" at "341b". ~Niels -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 2.6.31-1-686 (Debian 2.6.31-2) (b...@decadent.org.

Bug#556030: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [java:7582]

2009-11-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi I recall seeing a similar report in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472084 ~Niels signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#554272: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686: Deferences NULL pointer in xfs

2009-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 Version: 2.6.30-8 Severity: important Hi When I try to build eclipse 3.5 from source the compile is usually interrupted by the kernel deferencing a NULL pointer in (as far as I can tell) my file system driver. I do not see this during "normal" usage[1]. The at