Bug#1103770: kitty: Does not accept -name command line option

2025-04-23 Thread Bill Allombert
eported a bug that suggest some package were calling x-terminal-emulator with -name which is not supported ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1102295: d/control must not change during build

2025-04-08 Thread Bill Allombert
s not autogenerated, but DEBIAN/control is (by dpkg-gencontrol). This difference should be made clear in the rationale. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1101484: popularity-contest: Cannot build from VCS

2025-03-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 01:23:19PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 13:01:47 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > * Bill Allombert [250328 10:33]: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:02:46AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > Sourc

Bug#1101484: popularity-contest: Cannot build from VCS

2025-03-28 Thread Bill Allombert
> debian-popcon.gpg file. Hi Guillem, This is intended. You can get this file from the Debian source package. This way, there is only one official source. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1101395: luanti recommends luanti-game-minetest which is not available

2025-03-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: luanti Severity: normal Version: 5.10.0+dfsg-3 Hello Debian game team, luanti recommends luanti-game-minetest which is not available, not even in the NEW queue. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 03:18:07PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > In that spirit, please find a third one, which fail with both libc, > but in a different way. > > About 10% of the time, it hangs in 'exit' after all threads have terminated. (This is an aside to this bug re

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 11:29:46PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > control: forwarded -1 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32782 > > Hi Bill, > > > > I join a simplified test-case. > > Thanks, I have been able to simplify it a tiny bit more, please f

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:45:10AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I am still unsure wether there is a race condition in PARI or not, however > > if > > there is, it is clear that 2.41 makes the issue m

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:45:10AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I am still unsure wether there is a race condition in PARI or not, however > > if > > there is, it is clear that 2.41 makes the issue m

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 09:12:15AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > I also noticed it failed the same way on arm64. > > Thanks for confirming! > > > > > Please tell me if you would like me to do mor

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-11 Thread Bill Allombert
one! 29 30 31 Done! 32 33 34 Done! 35 36 37 38 39 40 Done! 41 42 43 44 45 46 Done! 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Done! 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 ^C% I join a simplified test-case. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. /* Copyright (C) 2013 The PARI group. This file is part of t

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:45:10AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > I am still unsure wether there is a race condition in PARI or not, however if > there is, it is clear that 2.41 makes the issue much worse. Hello Aurélien, I have made some progress. I have made a test program that does n

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:02:25AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On 2025-03-05 21:30, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.41-7 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello Aurelien, > > > > During a test bui

Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request <=bookworm r-r-r behaviour

2025-03-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 03:57:42PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request > <=bookworm r-r-r behaviour"): > > 2/ I consider --rules-requires-root to be a sufficient work-around > > _provided_ it is clearly

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 02:17:46PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:50:35AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:02:25AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > Hi Bill, > > > > > > On 2025-03-05 21:30, Bill All

Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request <=bookworm r-r-r behaviour

2025-03-07 Thread Bill Allombert
ld not have been added, and we could argue that the best way to avoid noise and complexity is to avoid breaking backward compatibility. What we should not do, in any case, is to ignore the transition problem. Cheers -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request <=bookworm r-r-r behaviour

2025-03-07 Thread Bill Allombert
default value binary-targets (since dpkg 1.19.1). which is a bit confusing for packages that do not have a Rules-Requires-Root field. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-07 Thread Bill Allombert
"((thr->slot)) != (0)" (0x0, 0x0) (tid=1455863) but only with glibc 2.41. I am still unsure wether there is a race condition in PARI or not, however if there is, it is clear that 2.41 makes the issue much worse. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:02:25AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On 2025-03-05 21:30, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.41-7 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello Aurelien, > > > > During a test bui

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:17:25PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2025-03-06 19:03, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > > > Do you have more details about that? I have tried to build pari locally, > > > and it builds fine. On which architecture is that? In which versi

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:50:35AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:02:25AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > > On 2025-03-05 21:30, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Package: libc6 > > > Version: 2.41-7 > > &

Bug#1099624: libc6 2.41 pthread cause pari to FTBFS

2025-03-05 Thread Bill Allombert
course I cannot rule out that pari has a race condition that only triggers with libc6 2.41, but the test is very simple, the code has been working fine for a long time and the failure mode are multiples. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1095791: dpkg: incompatible and Policy-violating R³ default change breaks packages’ builds

2025-03-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 04:14:50PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Bill Allombert: > > [...] > > > > Users are using dpkg to build packages that are not part of unstable and > > testing, > > and so have not beed considered by the November tests. > > > >

Bug#1098948: Changing 10.1 requirements for /usr/games

2025-03-05 Thread Bill Allombert
ll correct. > > I was exercising my authority as DPL Delegate to go ahead and undo the > change quickly despite opposition, because I saw the violation of > procedural norms to be so significant. You have my full support. Changes that are unintentionnal, inadvertent or erroneous need to be reverted quickly not to create a precedent, otherwise this jeopardizes the process. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1095791: dpkg: incompatible and Policy-violating R³ default change breaks packages’ builds

2025-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 07:57:28PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Bill Allombert: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > Control: severity -1 normal > > > > > > When Guillem and I analyzed the numbers in November, we concluded

Bug#1095791: dpkg: incompatible and Policy-violating R³ default change breaks packages’ builds

2025-03-03 Thread Bill Allombert
of the packages would need a change. What about packages that are not in unstable or testing ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1014431: popularity-contest: automatically create hostid if not specified in popularity-contest.conf

2025-02-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:18:11AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 19:59 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:29:55PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > > > From man:machine-id(5): > > > > > > +--- > > > > The machine

Bug#923014: Add systemd unit - allow usage without cron installed

2025-02-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 08:08:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 16:06 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > But then the user would not be able to configure it anymore, > > so I do not see the upside. > > I just discovered an alternative that preserves th

Bug#1052450: Failure: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest

2025-02-27 Thread Bill Allombert
: > cron-daily-popularity-contest.service: Consumed 2.512s CPU time. Hello Martin-Éric, Did you find you what happened ? Did it happen again ? Was /var/log/ full ? Are there two containers instance sharing the same /var/log by mistake. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1098916: libchart-perl: limit of number of colors too low

2025-02-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 11:17:37PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: libchart-perl > Version: 2.403.9-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello Debian Perl Group, > > Upgrading popcon.debian.org to bookworm breaks the graphics due to an issue in > libchart-perl. I join a very

Bug#1098916: libchart-perl: limit of number of colors too low

2025-02-25 Thread Bill Allombert
x27; is an unknown color name, please check Graphics::Toolkit::Color::Constant::all_names(). at /usr/share/perl5/Chart/Base.pm line 1165. Unrecognized color for dataset73 at test.pl line 10. with bullseye, it works for at least 374. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. #! /usr/bin/pe

Bug#1098687: libfinance-quote-perl: Unable to retrieve quotes (YahooJSON)

2025-02-22 Thread Bill Wohler
Package: libfinance-quote-perl Version: 1.64-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, While running the Tools > Price Database > Get Quotes command, I got the following error: Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: I use the YahooJSON source. I'm running bookworm, but had updated libfinance

Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks

2025-02-03 Thread Bill Allombert
in the first 512 bytes of the file, otherwise > ldconfig will be unhappy. For what is worth, % cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so INPUT(libncurses.so.6 -ltinfo) Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1095039: debian-policy: Development files: Allow using linker scripts instead of symlinks

2025-02-02 Thread Bill Allombert
.so to libgdbm.so.3.0.0, or a linker script that > achieves the same effect. This symlink or linker script is needed by > the linker (ld) when compiling packages, as it will only look for > libgdbm.so when compiling dynamically. Hello Aurelien, Maybe a footnote explaining when a linker sc

Bug#1094145: debian-policy: Remove or significantly minimize manual page requirement

2025-01-26 Thread Bill Allombert
ather depressing both from the Debian point of view and the upstream point of view. I anticipate the problem is only going to become worse. I do not know what we can do about it. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1094145: debian-policy: Remove or significantly minimize manual page requirement

2025-01-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 10:23:01AM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM Bill Allombert wrote: > > The man page provides a link between the executable name and the app. > > This is useful in a lot of situation. Writing such a manpage is not > > a waste

Bug#1094145: debian-policy: Remove or significantly minimize manual page requirement

2025-01-25 Thread Bill Allombert
e we need a tool dh_help2man that would automatically build man pages. using ---help and the synopsis in debian/control. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1093645: update-menus.1: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page

2025-01-20 Thread Bill Allombert
ntainer to fix all similar bugs in a single upload. In that spirit, do you have other bugs related to menu manpage to report ? Thanks, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1093464: spurious error message if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set

2025-01-18 Thread Bill Allombert
I set WINEDEBUG=-all This causes the output of wine to be broken and break the build. Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2025-01-16 Thread Bill Brelsford
Hi Salvatore, On Thu Jan 16 2025 at 09:30 AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 08:02:18AM -0800, Bill Brelsford wrote: > > [ 40.980166] kernel BUG at fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:534! > > [ 40.984266] Oops: invalid opcode: [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI >

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2025-01-15 Thread Bill Brelsford
s which do not work please? Attached is dmesg from trixie. Bill [0.00] Linux version 6.12.6-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 (Debian 14.2.0-11) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.43.50.20241215) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.6-1 (2024-12-21) [

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2025-01-14 Thread Bill Brelsford
gards.. Bill

Bug#1092762: debian-policy: Double "except" in same sentence (4.9)

2025-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
quot;" Except for packages in the non-free archive with the Autobuild control field unset or set to no, required targets must not attempt network access to other hosts. Only access via the loopback interface to services on the build host that have been started by the build are allowed. """ Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1092762: debian-policy: Double "except" in same sentence (4.9)

2025-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
t the equivalent: "Autobuild: no" become "Autobuild: yes" in your version... Also it is awkward to put the exception before the rule. I feel this is less clear than the original version. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 12:54:20PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Bill Allombert [250104 12:21]: > > > > Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is > > > > removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. > > > > >

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2025-01-04 Thread Bill Allombert
Precisely, the package in question was not changed since that policy was in effect. Debian was not able to detect this problem for so long so policy promising otherwise might not quite reflect the state of the distribution. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1090997: debbugsconfig depends on /usr/share/doc/debbugs/

2025-01-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 11:45:49PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Bill Allombert wrote:n > > Do you have a preference how to fix this bug ? > > My personal preference is to fix debbugsconfig to not copy those files > at all. The example config is needlessly

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2024-12-31 Thread Bill Allombert
r/share/doc/$pkg, it is easy to move the files to /usr/share/$pkg. But for /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info, what to do ? Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1090997: debbugsconfig depends on /usr/share/doc/debbugs/

2024-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 07:49:24PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Don, > Do you have a preference how to fix this bug ? I join a minimal patch that fixes this. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 93ed796..5cb29cf 100644

Bug#1090997: debbugsconfig depends on /usr/share/doc/debbugs/

2024-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 12:43:25AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: debbugs > Version: 2.6.3 > Severity: normal > > Hello Don, > > debbugsconfig does > system("cp /usr/share/doc/debbugs/examples/$name $destdir/$name") == 0 > > However policy pr

Bug#1091670: debbugsconfig requires debbugs-web

2024-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
/html/server-request.html.in If debbugs-web is not installed, then debbugsconfig fails with cp: cannot create regular file '/etc/debbugs/config Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1091330: Clarify that only editable configuration files need be in /etc

2024-12-24 Thread Bill Allombert
is not particularly recent, the layered override was implemented for TeX in kpathsea in 1993. I always considered to be the best scheme for handling upgrade, I am glad to see it is more widely used. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1091187: su-to-root: graphical programs no longer exist

2024-12-23 Thread Bill Allombert
> For kdesu, the > program path has changed. Thanks! It changes frequently... What is the new path ? Does it work with su-to-root ? What about wayland ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1064800: menu: installs same filename to both bin and sbin

2024-12-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 08:56:43AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 06:15:16PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:21:26PM +, ca...@allfreemail.net wrote: > > > your package installs the filenames `install-menu` and `su-to-ro

Bug#1090997: debbugsconfig depends on /usr/share/doc/debbugs/

2024-12-21 Thread Bill Allombert
s/ used by debbugsconfig should probably be moved to /usr/share/debbugs/examples. This would also fix the issue that file in /usr/share/doc/ are sometime compressed. Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1090056: search.cgi links to wrong bug.css

2024-12-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 03:21:06PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, Bill Allombert wrote:n > > Package: debbugs > > Version: 2.6.3 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello Don, > > > > This is from #644242. > > > > the file cg

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2024-12-19 Thread Bill Brelsford
On Wed Dec 18 2024 at 09:43 PM -0800, Bill Brelsford wrote: > > > > Can you additionally please test to downgrade to the 2.8.1-2 version > > > > and please report back if you see the problem there was well? For us > > > > it should behave actually same a

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2024-12-18 Thread Bill Brelsford
fsdctl commands work: # nfsdctl status # nfsdctl threads gracetime: 90 leasetime: 90 scope: k2ww pool-threads: 16 # nfsdctl listener tcp:[::]:2049 tcp:0.0.0.0:2049 # nfsdctl version +3.0 +4.0 +4.1 +4.2 Hope this helps. Thanks.. Bill

Bug#1038702: libjpeg6b: Should provide libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1)

2024-12-18 Thread Bill Allombert
gs stand, I will not do that unless I have an explicit authorization from the TC. Sorry... Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2024-12-16 Thread Bill Brelsford
grading (to 2.8.2-1), there is no problem -- I can start and stop the daemon, export/unexport filesystems, etc. Everything seems normal -- until the system is rebooted and rpc.nfsd is invoked. Regards.. Bill

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2024-12-15 Thread Bill Brelsford
again (or, e.g., exportfs -r) hangs and can't be killed. The same failure occurs on another similarly-configured system. Thanks.. Bill

Bug#1090056: search.cgi links to wrong bug.css

2024-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: debbugs Version: 2.6.3 Severity: normal Hello Don, This is from #644242. the file cgi/search.cgi links to http://bugs.debian.org/css/bugs.css instead of linking to $gWebHostBugDir/css/bugs.css or maybe /$gWebHostBugDir/css/bugs.css Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1090050: bugreport.tmpl link to missing bugspam.cgi

2024-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
is in examples/debian/misc/bugspam.cgi in the source, but this is not included in any binary packages. Should bugspam.cgi be moved to cgi and installed in ./var/lib/debbugs/www/cgi/ ? Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1089976: nfs-kernel-server: Fails to start - segmentation fault

2024-12-14 Thread Bill Brelsford
usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd ./nfs-kernel-server: line 61: 3694 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet --nicelevel $RPCNFSDPRIORITY --exec $PREFIX/sbin/rpc.nfs Downgrading to 1:2.8.1-1 (from trixie; also nfs-common and libnfsidmap1) resolves the problem. Thanks.. Bill -- Pack

Bug#1089557: spamscan-sa report spamassassin error due to gSpamRulesDir

2024-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
ause it is missing from the 'globals' EXPORT_TAGS in Debbugs/Config.pm Does that makes sense ? Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1089172: popularity-contest: migrate cron job to systemd timer on Linux ports

2024-12-06 Thread Bill Allombert
migrate the cron job to a systemd timer on Linux ports. The > cron job remains desirable on the Hurd port, however, since that port has no > systemd unit support. Could you provide a patch that does not break backward compatibility with the fact that /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is a c

Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

2024-12-05 Thread Bill Allombert
systems? What is a graceful failure for some script is a crash for another... Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1088877: ITP: paperutil -- paperutil for Debian

2024-12-04 Thread Bill Allombert
bly pick a more explicit Debian package name, since there is already a package libpaper-utils in Debian, so this might lead to confusion. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases

2024-12-02 Thread Bill Allombert
atively, following the feedback on this bug report, ask devscript to change "pretty" not to include the %h part ? But in general policy should refrain to be normative when there is no sound technical reason. Popularity is not sufficient. One could even argue that there are more technical reasons not to include the hash. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases

2024-12-01 Thread Bill Allombert
dentifier in debian/changelog instead. This bug report makes a good point that version should be kept to be copy-pastable and comparable by humans. By itself, the git commit hash does not provide any information without a copy of the git repository. debian/changelog should be sufficient for that purpose. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1068809: Any reason to (Build-)Depend from dh-buildinfo in ecbuild?

2024-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:43:04PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 06:31:22PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Replace dh_buildinfo by a script that just print a warning but does not > > actually > > generate the file, then ask for binNMU ? > >

Bug#1068809: Any reason to (Build-)Depend from dh-buildinfo in ecbuild?

2024-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
while 100% > of the packages build with dpkg produce .buildinfo files outside the > packages built. > > It's not the greatest bug in the world, yet it is a bug. Replace dh_buildinfo by a script that just print a warning but does not actually generate the file, then ask for binNMU ? Update the description to mention the problem. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1068809: Any reason to (Build-)Depend from dh-buildinfo in ecbuild?

2024-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
ebian-devel@ though I'd be very happy if someone else would do it!) Upload a version of dh_buildinfo that does nothing be output a warning 'warning: db_buildinfo is obsolete, please remove from Build-Depends'. This would gives time to maintainers to fix the issue before a MBF. Add a lin

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
nefit? People used to typing > 'less debian/README.source' would need to retrain their fingers. This is my concern too: the whole point of this policy is to specify the filename. Beside this file is only useful in limited circumstances which are less and less frequent due to improvement to dpkg and uupdate. It is unclear why anyone would need markdown for it. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
rkdown specifically as it has become an industry > standard for ASCII markup and use on README.md files is very common. Are there tools that automatically locate README.source and would need to be adapted to find README.source.md instead ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1084804: krb5-wallet: FTBFS for arch:any build

2024-11-12 Thread Bill MacAllister
ivileges. He generally is very busy. I'll ping him again tomorrow. Bill -- My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. Edna St Vincent Millay

Bug#1071657: libdebbugs-perl: Undeclared dependency on unpackaged Search::Estraier

2024-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
h-estraier-perl and get it back into Debian? The real issue is that hyperestraier itself has been removed from Debian. Should we add it back ? What does the Debian BTS use ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1075979: [Help] molds: FTBFS with mpich as default MPI provider: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpi_cxx: No such file or directory

2024-11-08 Thread Bill Allombert
etty sure this is wrong, mpicxx should take care of -lstdc++ -lmpi -lmpi_cxx I checked and the package build fine without -lstdc++ -lmpi -lmpi_cxx I do not know what LIBSBASE means. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

2024-11-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:32:45PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 11:04:26PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > In any case, please decide either to commit to maintain this package or > > > to let

Bug#1052053: popularity-contest: race condition between the two cron jobs

2024-11-01 Thread Bill Allombert
oduce it: by accident, two LXC containers ended > up using the same root. Leading to each one running the cron job on its > own, at the same time, targeting the same /var/log/ path. Thanks, this is very helful. However, I do not think sharing /var is a supported configuration. Cheers, --

Bug#1052053: popularity-contest: race condition between the two cron jobs

2024-10-31 Thread Bill Allombert
to reassign this bug to debianutils, and mark it > as "affects: popularity-contest"? Before we can report a bug against debianutils, we need to find a way to reproduce the problem easily. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1052053: popularity-contest: race condition between the two cron jobs

2024-10-31 Thread Bill Allombert
> effort. Hello Antoine, If I understand correctly, the issue is that savelog(8) is not reentrant. So maybe the best fix would be to change savelog (in debianutils.) to be reentrant. The alternative is to prevent popcon to run twice at the same time, which can be done with systemd. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1085020: popularity-contest: logs are not logs and should be moved to lib

2024-10-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:16:30AM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:40:29 +0200 Bill Allombert wrote: > > > This file is the log of the information sent. This serves to protect your > > privacy : you can check exactly what was sent. > > > > T

Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

2024-10-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 11:04:26PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:56:05AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > On Mon, Se

Bug#1085157: manpage is outdated

2024-10-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:44:34PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 04:42:59PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: jupyter > > Version: 5.7.2-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello Debian Python Team, > > > > 'man jupyte

Bug#1085157: manpage is outdated

2024-10-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: jupyter Version: 5.7.2-4 Severity: normal Hello Debian Python Team, 'man jupyter' is listing only two subcommands while there are much more available. Maybe you could use help2man ? Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1085020: popularity-contest: logs are not logs and should be moved to lib

2024-10-13 Thread Bill Allombert
t in Debian popularity-contest! -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1084226: svg support does not work

2024-10-09 Thread Bill Allombert
x). My wild guess is that there is some kind of race condition between the code to display the image and the code to setup the screen. The extra delay caused by starting inkscape seem to cause a problem. Anyway, at least you fixed the bug for X11. The problem with fb might be different. Best, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1084226: svg support does not work

2024-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 09:54:27PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > * Bill Allombert [2024-10-08 16:44]: > > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 03:47:58PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > > > * Rafael Laboissière [2024-10-07 09:05]: > > > > > > Attached to t

Bug#1084226: svg support does not work

2024-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 03:47:58PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > * Rafael Laboissière [2024-10-07 09:05]: > > > Control: tags -1 + confirmed upstream > > > > * Bill Allombert [2024-10-06 22:52]: > > > > > fim does not seem to be able to display

Bug#1082916: patch from NMU

2024-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 11:10:31AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: mlucas > > Version: 20.1.1-1.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello Alex, this is the patch for the NMU. > > ... and

Bug#1084226: svg support does not work

2024-10-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > Control: tags -1 + confirmed upstream > > * Bill Allombert [2024-10-06 22:52]: > > > fim does not seem to be able to display SVG even with inkscape > > installed, even while it works when doing inksca

Bug#1084226: svg support does not work

2024-10-06 Thread Bill Allombert
inkscape for displaying SVG. cairosvg does not require X11. Also the package should probably Suggests inkscape. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1027776: mlucas: FTBFS on arm64: fermat-number feature known broken on arm64

2024-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
ailure. > > In Ubuntu, I have done the latter by applying the attached patch. I applied this patch but now I wonder: if the SIMD binary does not work, surely we should remove it rather than not test it ? Or at least run the other tests ? Cheers, Bill.

Bug#1084045: mlucas: FTBFS: /bin/bash: line 6: 190871 Segmentation fault ${dir}$tst - FAIL: tests/self-test

2024-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 01:50:14AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 4/10/24 a las 20:37, Bill Allombert escribió: > > > The test suite works with 3th generation AMD EPYC processorss, > > > but fails with 4th generation. > > > > Ah! Does the VM set /proc/cpuinfo

Bug#1083071: popularity-contest: runs twice

2024-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
8000 else # 6.5 days, in seconds week=561600 fi if [ "$(( $now - $lastrun ))" -le "$week" ]; then exit 0 fi fi fi Cheers, Bill

Bug#1079842: Should debbugs be removed from unstable?

2024-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:56:05AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:34:08AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > &g

Bug#1084045: mlucas: FTBFS: /bin/bash: line 6: 190871 Segmentation fault ${dir}$tst - FAIL: tests/self-test

2024-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
iters 100 -radset 0 /usr/libexec/mlucas/mlucas-sse2 -fftlen 192 -iters 100 -radset 0 ... until this succeeds. Could you tell me what you get on epyc 3 and epyc 4 ? Maybe one of those is broken and I can just remove it. (I already disabled sse2 on i386 due to crashes) Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1084045: mlucas: FTBFS: /bin/bash: line 6: 190871 Segmentation fault ${dir}$tst - FAIL: tests/self-test

2024-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 06:31:09PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Santiago, > > The package build on my laptop, on barriere.debian.org and on the > Debian buildd, so it is fair to say that I cannot reproduce this bug. > > Does it FTFBS also on the real hardware ? >

Bug#1084045: mlucas: FTBFS: /bin/bash: line 6: 190871 Segmentation fault ${dir}$tst - FAIL: tests/self-test

2024-10-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Package: src:mlucas > Version: 20.1.1-1.2 > Severity: serious > Tags: ftbfs > > Dear maintainer: > > (I'm adding Bill to X-debbugs-Cc, since he did the last NMU) Thanks! > During a rebuild o

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