Bug#1026335: Squashing the last carl9170fw issues: ready for sponsorship

2023-08-20 Thread John Scott
On Wed, 2023-08-16 at 12:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 11:51 +0000, John Scott wrote: > > > Because carl9170 is largely under the GPL and we're obligated to distribute complete sources for our binaries, I've set Static-Built- Using on both gcc (because of libgcc

Bug#1026335: Review of the initial packaging of the carl9170 firmware

2023-08-13 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo Dear all, I have uploaded a new version of carl9170fw to mentors.debian.net that represents my very best work. Please review it carefully. Building it requires the just-uploaded libnewlib-sh-elf-dev version 3.3.0+8. I tend to ramble and I've already written at great

Bug#1040788: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/7 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2023-07-10 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Control: block 1026335 by -1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name : gcc-sh-elf    Version  : 7  * License  : various  *

Bug#1026335: carl9170 needs to wait on a new gcc-sh-elf upload

2023-07-10 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 moreinfo I've discovered an issue with how the Built-Using fields are generated. Specifically, because gcc-sh-elf does not set a Built-Using field for Newlib, and because of the way the libnewlib-sh-elf-dev binary package is currently versioned, there is no way to precisely

Bug#1026335: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-450-gad1c721-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2023-07-09 Thread John Scott
Control: retitle -1 RFS: carl9170fw [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw":  * Package name : carl9170fw    Version  : 1.9.9-450-gad1c721-1    Upstream contact : linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org  * URL   

Bug#1038959: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/6 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices plus Newlib

2023-06-23 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name : gcc-sh-elf    Version  : 6  * License  : many, but primarily GPL 3+ for GCC and permissive licenses for Newlib  * Vcs  :

Bug#1026362: Upload of binutils-sh-elf

2022-12-21 Thread John Scott
Hi, So, my package got auto-rejected. I talked to the FTP Masters, and they'd much rather that a workaround be incorporated into my package than them having to manually make it pass through. I've uploaded the one-line change to mentors.debian.net; if you could upload it once more, there shouldn't

Bug#1026362: RFS: binutils-sh-elf/2 -- GNU binary utilities for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-18 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net debian-sup...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "binutils-sh-elf":  * Package name : binutils-sh-elf    Version  : 2 (this is a native

Bug#1026335: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-427-gecb68a7-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-12-18 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Control: block 994625 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org b...@debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw":  * Package name : carl9170fw    Version  : 1.9.9-427-gecb68a7-1    Upstream

Bug#1026308: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/5 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-18 Thread John Scott
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 08:49 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I assume you're missing libreadline-dev from BuildDepends. You are, of course, absolutely right. I forgot to build in a clean environment. This has been fixed in a new upload to mentors.debian.net and a build in a clean

Bug#1026308: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/5 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-17 Thread John Scott
Control: owner -1 glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 08:09 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I can sponsor this upload. Thanks so much! Please go ahead whenever you're ready. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1026308: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/5 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-17 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net debian-sup...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors and fellow Electronics Team members, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name : gcc-sh-elf    Version

Bug#1011670: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-108-gd856466+dfsg1 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2022-05-30 Thread John Scott
Thanks for taking a look, Bastian. I believe the changes are satisfactory now, except that after close inspection I found that those files specified as being covered by the BSD-3-Clause license are still covered by it. Please me know if I'm misunderstanding something. signature.asc Description:

Bug#1011670: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-108-gd856466+dfsg1 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2022-05-26 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-ath9k-htc-firmware":  * Package name    : open-ath9k-htc-firmware    Version : 1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2    Upstream Author :

Bug#1011383: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/4 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-05-21 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf    Version : 4  * License : various  * Vcs :

Bug#1008891: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/3 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-04-03 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-sup...@lists.debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear mentors and other interested parties, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf    Version   

Bug#1002617: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-01-13 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Paul, Thanks for your very detailed review of carl9170fw. I'm still making my changes to the package and will give you a poke and remove the moreinfo tag once I have an upload ready for re-review. > I don't think udebs are needed for firmware packages, none of the

Re: Bug#1003306: RFS: mbedtls/2.28.0-0.1 [NMU] -- lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library

2022-01-08 Thread John Scott
On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 16:54 +0100, Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > (correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that using Apache-2.0 libraries in > GPL > software is not allowed). It depends on the version of the GPL at play. If it's GPL 3.0 (or later), then Apache 2.0 is usually regarded as fully

Bug#1002617: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2021-12-25 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors and Kernel Team, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw":  * Package name    : carl9170fw    Version : 1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1    Upstream Author :

Bug#1002582: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/2 [RC] -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2021-12-24 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear mentors and Electronics Team, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf    Version : 2 (this is a native package)  * License   

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 12:24 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, do you want me to upload newlib or do you want Tobias to do it? I think it would be more appropriate if you would. Just be sure to do it to a delayed queue for a minimum of two weeks, and send a mail to

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 12:07 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > What about the Salsa repository? Is it going to be updated? I've sent a merge request, and in fact did so a long time ago before my first NMU, but since the maintainers have been unresponsive it hasn't gotten merged. The Git

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 11:56 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Are you planning to adopt the package? Yes, I'm intending to salvage it and become the maintainer (the ITS is #996432). I think I'll keep it under the umbrella of the Electronics Team. signature.asc Description: This is a

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net, glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de Control: affects -1 src:newlib Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "newlib":  * Package name    : newlib    Version : 3.3.0-1.2   

Handling files with no copyright notices, many contributors

2021-10-09 Thread John Scott
Hi, My question is more to do with the practical ramifications of an upload than the legal ones, so I'm directing my query here rather than debian- legal. I'm packaging carl9170fw (which is already present in Debian main, but not built from source yet), and this includes a header file called

Bug#994770: RFS: binutils-m68hc1x/1:3 -- GNU binary utilities for Motorola's 68HC11/12 targets

2021-09-25 Thread John Scott
> I have no idea how we're going to address this. I think I'll file a bug > and see if they're willing to revert as soon as I can identify all of > the affected packages. I've filed a bug and marked it as a blocker of this issue, but in the admittedly short time since I filed it Wednesday I

Bug#994770: RFS: binutils-m68hc1x/1:3 -- GNU binary utilities for Motorola's 68HC11/12 targets

2021-09-23 Thread John Scott
Hi Vincent, I'm very glad to see that you've been working on this. From an initial skim of your package, things look very good, and I'm more pleased to see that you've based your work off of binutils-sh-elf and the PackagingLessCommonBinutilsTargets guide. About the build failure Adam had, I'm

Bug#993671: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/1 [ITP] -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2021-09-04 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net, nico...@debian.org Control: block -1 by 985563 Control: block 986778 by -1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf   

Bug#984901: open-ath9k-htc-firmware upload is now release-critical

2021-08-27 Thread John Scott
Control: retitle -1 RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 [RC] -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters Thanks to the Reproducible Builds folks for notifying me, the current package is FTBFS due to the Binutils 2.37 upload to unstable. Fortunately my package

Help with a syntax error from an autoreconf'ed configure script

2021-08-16 Thread John Scott
Hello, It seems that the upload of binutils-source 2.37 has broken my to-be- uploaded package binutils-sh-elf; it worked fine with binutils-source 2.36. My package is available at https://mentors.debian.net/package/binutils-sh-elf/ I'm looking for anyone that knows Autoconf wizardry to help sort

Bug#981702: RFS: privacybadger/2021.2.2-1 -- browser extension automatically learns to block invisible trackers

2021-07-04 Thread John Scott
On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 17:07 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > >     * Friendly takeover back into the WebExt team. > > I can't find any documentation about that have been ACKed by the > current maintainer. (CCing Jonas so that he can response/confirm, to > put it on record that this is not an hijack…)

Bug#984901: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2021-07-02 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 07:07 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > The Files-Excluded section is used by tools like uscan to strip files from the > orig.tar.  The formatted text just says that the field can extend over > multiple > lines, it does not mean its free text without meaning. > TL;DR: I'm pretty

Bug#987169: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.1 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-06-20 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:38:56 + John Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 07:52 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > I haven't encountered the maintainer previously, but believe in > > > good faith that these changes would be welcome and that the

Bug#987169: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.1 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-06-08 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 07:52 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > I haven't encountered the maintainer previously, but believe in > > good faith that these changes would be welcome and that the > > LowThresholdNmu criterion are met by addressing a bug with > > important severity. My interest in this bug,

Bug#984901: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2021-05-31 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 20:25 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > I've took a look at your package: Awesome, thanks. > - d/copyright:  >  - The word "Comment:" went missing after the Files-Exlucded section

Are these superficial autopkgtests?

2021-05-24 Thread John Scott
Hello, I'm working on packaging gcc-sh-elf (ITP #986778) which provides not just a cross C compiler, but also provides Newlib (the ISO C standard library) and a simulator, which is a Wine-like wrapper that makes running the binaries possible on a Debian machine. This seems like a very good

Bug#987169: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.1 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-04-18 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for Newlib:  * Package name    : newlib    Version : 3.3.0-1.1    Upstream Author : Red Hat and others  * URL : https://sourceware.org/newlib/  * License : various  * Vcs  

Bug#985563: RFS: binutils-sh-elf/1 [ITP] -- GNU binary utilities for embedded SuperH devices

2021-04-18 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:30:45 -0400 John Scott wrote: > The package should be built against experimental. I've come to realize that on the buildd's, packages from experimental aren't pulled in unless required to satisfy the build dependencies. Disregard this; it's not a big deal, exc

Bug#985563: RFS: binutils-sh-elf/1 [ITP] -- GNU binary utilities for embedded SuperH devices

2021-03-19 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Control: block 980889 by -1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "binutils-sh-elf":  * Package name    : binutils-sh-elf    Version : 1 (it's a native package)

Bug#984901: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2021-03-09 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-ath9k-htc-firmware":  * Package name    : open-ath9k-htc-firmware    Version : 1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2    Upstream Author : Qualcomm Atheros and contributors  * URL

Bug#981702: RFS: privacybadger/2021.2.2-1 -- browser extension automatically learns to block invisible trackers

2021-02-02 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-mozext-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "privacybadger": * Package name: privacybadger Version : 2021.2.2-1 Upstream Author : Electronic Frontier

Debian Policy and copyright for binary packages made from foo-source

2021-02-02 Thread John Scott
Hello, I'm working on packaging binutils-sh-elf, which is a native package which only has a debian/ directory. At build time, it extracts the tarball from binutils- source—whatever version it happens to be—and builds it into binary packages with the appropriate options. For informative

Bug#974856: RFS: klatexformula/4.1.0-1 [RC] -- GUI to easily get an image from a LaTeX formula or equation

2020-12-25 Thread John Scott
On Friday, December 25, 2020 3:27:25 PM EST Tobias Winchen wrote: > Did you try drag and drop the images e.g. to libreoffice impress? Via drag > and > drop I get the correct effects, but not via save. I reported this behavior > upstream: I had not tried that, but bizarrely it seems to not work

Bug#974856: RFS: klatexformula/4.1.0-1 [RC] -- GUI to easily get an image from a LaTeX formula or equation

2020-12-05 Thread John Scott
I can't sponsor KLatexFormula but use it and may have spotted issues. I see this version introduces user scripts, but most of them start with #!/usr/bin/env python and the problem is that this doesn't explicitly refer to Python 2 or Python 3. At this time, such a script is considered a

Bug#969453: RFS: solo-python/0.0.26-1 [ITP] -- command line interface for SoloKeys 2FA security keys

2020-09-03 Thread John Scott
On Thursday, September 3, 2020 4:09:59 AM EDT Ansgar wrote: > If it is a command-line utility the choice of language for its > implementation doesn't matter to users and probably shouldn't be part > of a package's name It's both a command-line utility and a library, albeit a library applications

Re: Public domain license question

2020-07-20 Thread John Scott
On Monday, July 20, 2020 11:07:05 AM EDT François Mazen wrote: > Is there special syntax in debian/changelog file to reopen such bugs? > I would expect something similar to the (Closes: #123456): > (Reopens: #123456)? No, you can't do it in the changelog. Instead, you can send an email to

Re: licensecheck says UNKNOWN

2020-07-13 Thread John Scott
On Monday, July 13, 2020 10:50:00 AM EDT Ryan Pavlik wrote: > Unfortunately licensecheck doesn't currently recognize > SPDX-License-Identifier (I haven't check to see if there's a request > filed for that). Fortunately there are issues filed (#904518) and an author assures that support will be

Re: Problem with ftbfs on armel and mipsel with cmake 3.16.3

2020-06-03 Thread John Scott
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 4:58:08 PM EDT Håvard Flaget Aasen wrote: > The beginning of the error message is: > CMake Error at > /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/CMakeCompilerIdDetection.cmake:26 (list): > list sub-command REMOVE_ITEM requires two or more arguments. That part of the module says

Bug#946959: RFS: coreboot/4.10-1 [ITP] -- Coreboot firmware utilities

2020-01-27 Thread John Scott
> > If there really is a problem with those files I would appreciate your > > letting me know what I missed. Otherwise I hope you can avoid the > > repacking trouble in the future. > Probably not, but the repacking is not trouble. Without a good reason, you really shouldn't repack [1]. I do not

Re: Understand Debian Keyring

2020-01-05 Thread John Scott
On January 5, 2020 12:34:53 PM EST, Wookey wrote: >On 2020-01-05 10:01 -0500, Tong Sun wrote: >> Now, before I redo the upload (and get it stuck again), let me try to >> understand the situation -- >> >> The reason it was stuck might be because my key was *considered* >> expired. The problem is,

Bug#946959: RFS: coreboot/4.10-1 -- Coreboot firmware utilities

2020-01-04 Thread John Scott
The package is in great shape. The only challenge to getting the package in the archive seems to be the copyright file. Coreboot's README says > Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", > and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, >

Bug#945588: RFS: lutris/0.5.4-1 -- open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux

2020-01-04 Thread John Scott
I'm not a DD and can't sponsor packages, but I hope my feedback can be helpful for you. I see Lutris bundles python-distro. This is available in Debian, so the package should use it rather than installing a bundled copy. Debian's Winetricks should be used also. Since Winetricks is in contrib,

Refresh PGP key with nm.debian.org

2019-12-20 Thread John Scott
, or would I be better off starting a new application? Thanks, John Scott signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#941440: wxMaxima Pandoc problem

2019-12-07 Thread John Scott
wxMaxima FTBFS's for me with $ pdf-engine /usr/bin/xelatex not known I see that the 19.10.0 Debian package builds now by skipping the PDF manual when it can't be built. I think I've found the root of the problem with Pandoc. It turns out this is a regression that's been there for ages and

Bug#941440: FTBFS on Buster

2019-10-02 Thread John Scott
It doesn't build for me on Buster, it seems this version of Pandoc doesn't understand giving the full path to the TeX engine. make[4]: Entering directory '/home/john/wxmaxima/wxmaxima-19.09.1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu' cd /home/john/wxmaxima/wxmaxima-19.09.1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/info &&

Bug#941440: RFS: wxmaxima/19.09.1-1 -- GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima

2019-10-02 Thread John Scott
I tried to fetch the source package with dget, but it doesn't seem to like the new key it's signed with. $ dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wxmaxima/wxmaxima_19.09.1-1.dsc dscverify: wxmaxima_19.09.1-1.dsc failed signature check: gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying