Bug#969752: lists.debian.org: Request for a new list: debian-scheme

2020-09-11 Thread bnewbold
I support this! In particular it would be helpful to coordinate work on dependent packages like 'slib', which I just noticed recently changed maintainer. --bryan

Bug#874112: scm FTBFS on 32bit: ERROR: "r4rstest.scm": round-quotient: Wrong type in arg1 (0 . 0)

2017-10-12 Thread bnewbold
Upstream helped identify the problem and solution: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/scm-discuss/2017-10/msg9.html I've tested and the cherry-picked patch fixes the test problem on a 32-bit x86 virtual machine; I have a 5f2-2 with the patch in mentors.d.n. --bryan On Sun, 3 Sep 2017,

Bug#852661: dgit: fails to fetch when Maintainer has `,` in name

2017-01-26 Thread bnewbold
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: I don't think the git format permits commas here. After removing that line and doing a fetch, please try `git fsck' ? git doesn't complain. Re-running everything in sid, with the search/replace line in dgit commented out: root@c941f608556e:~/scm#

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-22 Thread bnewbold
Hello all, I also had this problem when upgrading my amd64 laptop from wheezy to jessie. My apt and general system configuration on this machine was not particularly hygienic or well documented, so mine might not be a very high signal datapoint, however I was ultimately able to complete the

Bug#691349: "GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors"

2013-02-02 Thread bnewbold
ARM's recent generic pre-built GNU toolchain for Cortex-M* and Cortex-R* processors, and the newlib-nano library, may make creation of an arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain much easier. I would be willing to take a whack at a "gcc-arm-embedded" package (along the lines of gcc-avr) if chrysn doesn't

Bug#602788: Hacky workaround

2012-11-16 Thread bnewbold
Jason Heeris's script worked for me after I changed it to -serial_console (to run later). it only needs to run after 0170-sysvinit, so a lower priority like 1190 would be fine. a partial fix might be to re-write the offending sed in 0170-sysvinit (UNTESTED): \(tty[0-9]*\) -> \(tty[A-