Bug#1099130: Are the Firefox Terms of Use suitable for Debian?

2025-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Jeremy Bícha wrote: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ which does include the > new Terms of Use. I don't see a link on that page to the new ToU. (It does link to some ToU's of chatbots.) > It is also linked to in Help > About Firefox. Indeed it is! While this is a ways from "mak

Bug#1099130: firefox-esr: Please package a fork that respects users privacy

2025-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Mozilla plans to put the new Terms of Use in front of users soon. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/ And actually asking you to acknowledge it is an important step, so we’re making it a part of the standard product experience starting in early Ma

Bug#1014628: FWD: Re: git-annex arm 32-bit builds

2022-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
I was looking at this bug the other day trying to determine why git-annex was not in testing, and did not realize it was due to this dbus issue. My mail below digs into it, if the issue is still happening. - Forwarded message from Joey Hess - Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 12:48:21 -0400 From

Bug#997933: me too

2022-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Seeing this bug after upgrade. My imap server is dovecot. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#953621: fixed in new version

2020-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
version 1.0.1 fixes this -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#962973: haskell-readline: Removal notice: broken and unmaintained

2020-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
It could be converted to haskeline or raw IO, but gnu readline is the kind of library I think it makes sense to have language bindings to, and to use the bindings. This patch seems to fix the build problem: --- readline-1.0.3.0.orig/readline.cabal2020-06-17 17:09:11.438264895 -0400 +++ r

Bug#921688: saw this

2019-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
This is still happening, the legitimate public servers may not work with electrum 3.3, but there are dozens of rogue servers that do and that are exploiting this bug. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#924800: [PATCH] resolve race in test cleanup by making second attempt more forceful

2019-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Whitton wrote: > Errors are like this: > > .t/gpgtest/9/S.gpg-agent.extra: > removeDirectoryRecursive:removeContentsRecursive:removePathRecursive:removeContentsRecursive:removePathRecursive:removeContentsRecursive:r > emovePathRecursive:getSymbolicLinkStatus: does not exist (No such fil

Bug#847677: "unable to decommit memory" data loss

2016-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ghc Version: 8.0.1-14 Severity: serious git-annex: unable to decommit memory: Invalid argument This happened with a git-annex built with this ghc, and bundled with Debian's glibc (essentially a chroot), on a Fedora system with a 4.4.14 Linux kernel. It apparently then led to memory corr

Bug#840516: doesn't work with django 1.10

2016-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
I suppose this is the problem that this bug report is about: root@ia-bak:/usr/local/propellor# graphite-manage Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/graphite-manage", line 15, in execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management

Bug#814055: has broken binding to libgnutls-deb0.so.28

2016-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > # ldd > /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.3/network-protocol-xmpp-0.4.8-AArRa3ialU19Kz62aVPiMC/libHSnetwork-protocol-xmpp-0.4.8-AArRa3ialU19Kz62aVPiMC-ghc7.10.3.so > | grep gnutls-deb > libgnutls-deb0.so.28 => not found joey@darkstar:~>dp

Bug#795644: git-annex: configure eats all memory

2015-08-17 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > apt-get -y install ghc libghc-ifelse-dev libghc-missingh-dev > libghc-unix-compat-dev libghc-data-default-dev libghc-exceptions-dev > libghc-http-types-dev libghc-bloomfilter-dev libghc-old-locale-dev > libghc-resourcet-dev libghc-monad-control-dev libghc-edit-

Bug#795644: git-annex: configure eats all memory

2015-08-17 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: > If we can isolate the problem nicely, I’ll be happy to discuss this > with upstream. deboostrap sid in chroot: mount -t proc proc /proc apt-get -y install ghc libghc-ifelse-dev libghc-missingh-dev libghc-unix-compat-dev libghc-data-default-dev libghc-exceptions-dev li

Bug#795644: git-annex: configure eats all memory

2015-08-17 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: > I think I got it: Cabal tries to infer what feature are supported by > looking at the dependencies, and their flags, and mumble mumble complex > search space. Except while Cabal falls over, cabal-install does not. For example: joey@kite:~/git-annex>dpkg-checkbuilddeps

Bug#774898: has anyone actually tested this patch?

2015-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Holger Levsen wrote: > has anyone actually tested this patch? Yes. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#774376: when run with old kernel, docker exec silently uses real root filesystem as container filesystem

2015-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Tianon Gravi wrote: > I would actually be very surprised if the issues you've encountered so > far are the only issues with Docker on a 3.2 kernel. Just to be clear, my intent was not to use docker with an old kernel. I was just deploying a system whose configuration included docker, and since doc

Bug#774376: when run with old kernel, docker exec silently uses real root filesystem as container filesystem

2015-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Package: docker.io Version: 1.3.3~dfsg1-1 Severity: serious Here's a system that was upgraded to unstable but not yet rebooted into the new kernel.. root@clam:~>uname -a Linux clam 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@clam:~>touch /hello-host root@clam:~>docker exec oldusene

Bug#772239: git-remote-gcrypt: bashism in /bin/sh script

2014-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Geissert wrote: > I've ran checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) over the whole > archive and I found that your package has a /bin/sh script that uses a > "bashism". > > checkbashisms' output: > > possible bashism in ./usr/bin/git-remote-gcrypt line 102 (setvar 'foo' > > 'bar' shou

Bug#772043: option parsing 100% broken

2014-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: guthub-backup Version: 1.20141110 Severity: serious joey@darkstar:~/src/github-backup>./github-backup joeyh Usage: github-backup [USERNAME|ORGANIZATION] [--exclude USERNAME/REPOSITORY] This leaves the program mostly useless, unable to backup all a user's repos, although it can still be r

Bug#771334: upgrade hosed dovecot; Couldn't parse private ssl_key: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line: Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY

2014-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Source: dovecot Version: 1:2.2.13-7 Severity: serious After upgrading to this version, I cannot connect to dovecot's imap or pop servers. joey@darkstar:~>telnet kitenet.net imap Trying 66.228.36.95... Connected to kite.kitenet.net. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Off

Bug#768093: marked as done (possible data loss when --git-dir is set to wacky thing)

2014-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
severity 768093 important thanks On second thought I don't consider this RC: * It doesn't seem to actually result in very significant data loss. * Pointing --git-dir at something not a git repo is asking for undefined behavior. This is a little more undefined than could be desired, but the us

Bug#768093: possible data loss when --git-dir is set to wacky thing

2014-11-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: git-annex Version: 5.20141024 Severity: serious http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/misuse_of_--git-dir_might_destroy_a_git_repository_completely/ -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system

2014-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > Instead, the work of debootstrap is precisely to guess the right order > in which packages should be configured so that everything work. > > In other words, essential packages should not get in the business of > breaking dependency cycles, because that's debootstrap job. >

Bug#725714: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Here is another draft, this time also providing the module name. I > dropped the code looking in /proc/modules, as three ways to find > firmware seem a bit too much. Looking at dmesg might fail if something is spamming it and the message drops out of the ring buffer.

Bug#747141: [debhelper-devel] Bug#747141: debhelper: "dh_installdocs --link-doc" breaks binNMUs

2014-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > We have scheduled a few thousands of binNMUs on s390x due to the libc > ABI breakage. It occurs that most of the non binNMUs safe packages are > wrongly using this --link-doc option. > > I am therefore increasing the severity of this bug. dh_installdocs > --link-doc should

Bug#763078: confirmed llvm change broke ghc

2014-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > llvm maintainer (Sylvestre) says that llvm-3.4 is going to disappear > (not before jessie, but somewhen after), and llvm-3.5 is built > correctly on arm{el,hf}. > > Isn't it better to just upload with llvm-3.5 and do some binNMUs > instead of using the old one and be

Bug#763078: confirmed llvm change broke ghc

2014-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Yes, I know :( > However, 3.5 has been released a few weeks before this freeze, 3.4 is > unmaintained, > 3.5 will be maintained a bit more, Ubuntu is also doing the switch to > 3.5 and I wanted to default Debian > on the last version. And as you found, the workaround is eas

Bug#763078: confirmed llvm change broke ghc

2014-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Here's some debian/rules hacks to fix this. This forces use of llvm-3.4 for building ghc, as well as modifying the wrapper scripts to force use of that version at runtime. The control file also needs to be changed to depend on llvm-3.4, rather than llvm. Note that just uploading ghc with this pat

Bug#763078: confirmed llvm change broke ghc

2014-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Confirmed that installing llvm-3.4 and putting /usr/lib/llvm-3.4/bin first in PATH before running ghc lets it build working executables on armel and armhf. This is certianly a bug in ghc. It should not depend on llvm, but on the llvm-$ver it was built against, and it should use the toolchain from

Bug#763078: ghc no longer builds working executables on armel, armhf

2014-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ghc, llvm Version: 7.6.3-16 Severity: serious It seems that ./Setup configure segfaults: (sid_armhf-dchroot)joeyh@harris:/tmp/git-annex-5.20140926$ ./dist/setup/setup configure Segmentation fault https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=git-annex&arch=armel&ver=5.2014

Bug#762761: security fix incomplete

2014-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: bash Version: 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 Severity: grave Tags: security http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/679 root@diatom:/tmp/empty>bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or

Bug#749795: holes in secure apt

2014-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > reopen 749795 > I'm reopening this for now, even if the issue is solved from a technical > point of view (see below why). AAICS, #749795 talked about bringing this to the security team's attention, but they never seem to have been CCed. So the security team may n

Bug#613169: status

2014-05-20 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Biebl wrote: > This bug has been open for a while and is now blocking the removal of > hal [0]. What's your plan regarding sleepd? Do you still want to port it > to some newer/other interfaces or should the package be removed from the > archive? I have no plans for sleepd. -- see shy jo

Bug#742145: openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation

2014-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Florian Weimer dixit: > >Historically, the OpenSSL command line tools have been intended for > >debugging only. > > I disagree, in the case of genrsa and friends anyway. Me too, and openssl(1ssl) does not mention debugging or not for production use or give any warnings. A

Bug#725004: big endian bug

2013-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
I belive all failed arches are big endian. The Crypto/Cipher/TripleDES.hs which is failing a roundtrip decrypt . encrypt test is littered with code that assumes little endian: word64ToBs :: Word64 -> B.ByteString word64ToBs = runPut . putWord64le This has been extensively rewritten in the 0.6.1

Bug#613169: status

2013-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
I have a patch in git, but I don't know if it works, or if it will continue working with newer kernels. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#720714: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#720714: Bug#720714: Acknowledgement (will no longer work once rebuilt with linux-libc-dev 3.10.5)

2013-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Louis Bettens wrote: > Done. The patch is being pushed in a couple of minutes. I commited a > NMU (at least in the changelog) so what's next? This patch has been included in a new upstream release. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#720714: Acknowledgement (will no longer work once rebuilt with linux-libc-dev 3.10.5)

2013-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
See https://github.com/audreyt/network-multicast/pull/6 for a patch for this and also for an ugly file descriptor leak bug. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#720714: will no longer work once rebuilt with linux-libc-dev 3.10.5

2013-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Source: haskell-network-multicast Version: 0.0.7-2 Severity: serious After rebuilding this package from source, it fails to work: Prelude Network.Multicast> multicastReceiver "224.0.0.99" *** Exception: user error (Network.Socket.setSocketOption: socket option ReusePort unsupported on this s

Bug#718121: gtg-trace: FTBFS: dh_install: libgtg-dev missing files (usr/include/*), aborting

2013-08-13 Thread Joey Hess
Samuel Thibault wrote: > It seems dh_auto_install does not run make install at all any more > here. I don't really understand why: there is a Makefile, and it does > contain an install rule (it's automake-generated), debian/compat is 8, > and debian/rules merely contains: I can look at this in 2 w

Bug#718104: bsdiff: FTBFS: Makefile:13: *** missing separator. Stop.

2013-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
(Did not notice this bug until now, due to the way it was reassigned to debhelper w/o ccing me.) I don't think I can revert the change that broke this. There are no other good approaches for fixing #713257. To fix this in debhelper, it would need to somehow detect that this Makefile uses a differ

Bug#718191: moreutils: vidir loses changes on error

2013-07-28 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Gold wrote: > vidir should either reopen the editor on error (maybe with comments at > the top and above the bad lines) or save a copy of the edited list in > the working directory. > > I have occasionally encountered this problem after spending a long time > editing a large directory, and

Bug#717456: data loss adding tarball of git-annex repository

2013-07-20 Thread Joey Hess
Package: git-annex Version: 4.20130521 Severity: serious git-annex has a bug that can cause data loss: http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/git_annex_add_removes_file_with_no_data_left/ This probably only affects adding tarballs of git-annex repositories. Which is not a completely absurd use cas

Bug#717442: debian/rules binary fails to run build target

2013-07-20 Thread Joey Hess
Package: haskell-devscripts Version: 0.8.17 Severity: serious This probably affects many haskell packages, but the one I encountered it with is haskell-hinotify. Running debian/rules binary fails: debian/hlibrary.setup copy --builddir=dist-ghc --destdir=debian/tmp-inst-ghc Installing library in d

Bug#713257: drawxtl: FTBFS: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.

2013-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Leidert wrote: > I received the report below. Turns out, that there is a clean target, > but debuild fails, because there is no distclean target. Could there be > a mixup or a regression with #706923/#707481? Only to the extent that before it ignored the -C you have specified, so make found

Bug#707481: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-04 Thread Joey Hess
Seems I confused xgalaga with xgalaga++, which does use dh. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#707481: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-04 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wise wrote: > Control: severity -1 grave > Control: reassign -1 debhelper 9.20130518 > Control: affects -1 + src:xgalaga++ > Control: tags -1 - jessie > > The FTBFS bug against xgalaga++ (#707481) is caused by debhelper, it > builds fine with debhelper 9.20120909 but not with debhelper > 9.20

Bug#707505: Bug#707336: Bug#707505: vigor: FTBFS: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/vigor/usr': No such file or directory

2013-05-09 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I can work around this. However, it's a consequence of a debhelper > change, already reported in #707336. Since dh_installdirs no longer > runs, debian/vigor is not created, and so the upstream Makefile's lack > of 'mkdir -p' trips. I was just looking at this, and realized

Bug#706187: closed by Joachim Breitner (Bug#706187: fixed in haskell-github 0.7.0-1)

2013-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 08:51 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > haskell-github (0.7.0-1) experimental; urgency=low > > . > >* New upstream release (Closes: #706187) > > Thanks, but I think this bug needs to be fixed in wheezy too? I hav

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Vincent McIntyre wrote: > I found the string, in po/sublevel1, here's the templates.po > #. Type: select > #. Choices > #: ../choose-mirror-bin.templates.http-in:2001 > #: ../choose-mirror-bin.templates.ftp.sel-in:2001 > msgid "enter information manually" > msgstr "" > > Is it the case that I need

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Do you know how the problem can be triggerd. As far as I remember only > some installation from USB are affected and I don't know if the > difference between those affected and those unaffected has ever been > identified. If I know that I'm testing the right test case, I'm

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Vincent McIntyre wrote: > It's entirely possible this patch is not the full resolution of the various > issues people have reported but I'm posting it to get feedback on the > approach and get some help with correctly integrating it into d-i. This adds a new translatable template, which it is far

Bug#704876: hothasktags: FTBFS: cabal: Command not found

2013-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: > If you want to avoid cdbs, I’d be happy to see dh support Haskell, but > it should use the same building steps as haskell-devscripts now, I’d > think. I don't know if it's worth putting in the time to make debhelper support haskell library packages, but it certianly makes

Bug#701593: Bug#702151: RM: haskell-tls-extra/0.4.6.1-1

2013-03-10 Thread Joey Hess
Attached are minimal patches that seem to work. The haskell-certificate change is direct from upstream git rev a156d857189fc880f7d0a2de3310e750994c766b, like vincenthz suggested. The minor haskell-tls-extra change mirrors what's currently in upstream too. I've tested using tls-debug's tls-retrie

Bug#701593: reversion caused by security chain fix

2013-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: libghc-tls-extra-dev Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: serious The security fix in this release seems to have caused a reversion which rejects certificates that everything else accepts are valid. Amoung the certificates now rejected is www.box.com, which is a problem for me with git-annex. Ot

Bug#665296: Putting the sed snippet into a filename

2012-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Thanks for the fast review, please see the revised patch attached. Applied. I will upload it once the current debhelper gets into testing. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#665296: Putting the sed snippet into a filename

2012-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Marcin Owsiany wrote: > +# 4: either text: shell-quoted sed to run on the snippet. Ie, > 's/#PACKAGE#/$PACKAGE/' > +#or a sub to run on each line of the snippet. Ie sub { > s/#PACKAGE#/$PACKAGE/ } I had not thought about making it operate on each line rather than the whole file, but I think

Bug#665296: Putting the sed snippet into a filename

2012-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marcin Owsiany wrote: > - dh_installxmlcatalogs passing an overly long string to autoscript(). > > I think whatever fix is implemented (unless someone knows an answer to my > question above), it will mean a change to dh_installxmlcatalogs. So perhaps > this bug should be cloned against xml-co

Bug#682351: git-annex: build fails because of failing tests

2012-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
gregor herrmann wrote: > Solution: set GIT_AUTHOR_NAME _and_ GIT_COMMITTER_NAME in test.hs > (additionally to EMAIL; or GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL > instead of EMAIL). I've applied that patch, thanks. I don't know that this is actually RC, is building on pbuilder some kind of releas

Bug#682351: git-annex: build fails because of failing tests

2012-07-21 Thread Joey Hess
Motiejus Jakštys wrote: > Building git-annex in pbuilder on squeeze having backports.debian.org > repository enabled yields this error: > Testing 1:blackbox:0:git-annex init > Testing 1:blackbox:1:git-annex add:0 >

Bug#681347: pkgsel: bussiness card and netinstall, Can't exec "aptitude" after Select & Install Software

2012-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
reassign 681347 ftp.debian.org VastOne wrote: > Package: pkgsel > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i > Can't exec "aptitude": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/debconf-apt- > progress line 130. line 2. aptitude's priority was downgraded to optional, but d-i still uses it to install security upda

Bug#679811: dh_shlibdeps crashes on s390x

2012-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > I am not really sure what you suggest here: ssh into some s390x machine > and build things manually then ran the dh_shlibdeps? Well, yes, the bug needs to be reproduced and investigated to see what is crashing, surely. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#679811: dh_shlibdeps crashes on s390x

2012-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > You can use dh_shlibdeps -d to get the dpkg-shlibdeps command line, -v actually > run that with -v to get the objdump command line, and chase down which > program is actually crashing that way. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description

Bug#679811: dh_shlibdeps crashes on s390x

2012-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > When building shogun dh_shlibdeps crashes with > *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: free(): invalid pointer: > dpkg-shlibdeps: error: objdump died from signal 6 > dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/shogun-ruby-modular.substvars > debian/shogun-ruby-modular/usr/lib

Bug#679596: libghc-github-prof: Should be in contrib

2012-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
shawn wrote: > is this still the case, because if so, I would be happy to switch it > over to using weather.gov and/or some other NOAA source directly for US > weather. (this is the source for 99.9% of US weather data anyways) http://bugs.debian.org/647749 -- see shy jo signature.asc Descript

Bug#679596: libghc-github-prof: Should be in contrib

2012-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > <http://lists.debian.org/20111204195557.ga11...@gnu.kitenet.net> This seemed a good opportunity to expand that into a BoF, so I've submitted this: https://penta.debconf.org/penta/submission/dc12/event/931 classifying and exposing network dependencies D

Bug#679596: libghc-github-prof: Should be in contrib

2012-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
I actually disagree with the thesis of this bug report. Suppose that Github went away tomorrow, or was blocked by an oppressive regime, or similar. github-backup would suddenly have its usefullness *validated*. Furthermore, it is very much an undecided issue which web-API-dependant packages belong

Bug#678787: github-backup: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libghc-github-dev

2012-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
forwarded 678787 https://github.com/mike-burns/github/issues/24 tag 678787 help thanks Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > sbuild-build-depends-github-backup-dummy : Depends: libghc-github-dev but > > it is not going to be installed I've tried to update libghc-github-dev earlier, but it's been broken by

Bug#677076: git-annex: data loss when using git annex uninit from subdirectory

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Nicola Chiapolini wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > When git annex is run from inside a sub-directory of the repository > only the files in this directory get resored to real files. > All other files are still symlinks to a now missing .git/annex directory. > If this was the only repository, these files

Bug#672477: dh_strip --dbg-package broken

2012-05-11 Thread Joey Hess
Ondřej Surý wrote: > the recent debhelper update broke every dh_strip --dbg-package out there, > unless of course the .build-id/* is intentional: Two minutes looking for dh_strip in the changelog and reading bug #642158 have convinced me that .build_id is intentional. How about you? Did you do at

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-05-09 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > I ask for feedback on this combination of patches. Since the bug is > assigned to debhelper now, I explicitly pull in the sgml-base > maintainers (who seem to be MIA). Right. As I think I've posted before to this bug, I will move ahead with the debhelper changes as soon as

Bug#672140: prompts for root passwords on a sudo-only system

2012-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.104-2 Severity: serious Tags: d-i In d-i, it is very easy to set up a system without entering a root password. d-i sets up sudo, and configures gksu to use it (by changing an alternative). On such a system, I was prompted by policykit for the (nonexistant) root pas

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > On the debhelper side it should be enough to remove all remaining calls > > > to update-catalog and introduce a dependency on the changed sgml-base. I >

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > I worked out the sgml-base part of the patch. It will turn the super > catalog into a symbolic link from /etc/sgml/catalog to > /var/lib/sgml-base/supercatalog and update the latter file using > triggers. The loosing of user configuration will persist in all detail > until pa

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:18:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > This is why I originally recommended that the registration process be > > converted to use triggers. A [directory full] of catalogs, and a root > > catalog > > file automatically gene

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > This is why I originally recommended that the registration process be > converted to use triggers. A file fill of catalogs, and a root catalog ^ directory full > file automatically generated from them (which need not be a config

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > It gets even worse. Consider the case where a maintainer removes a > catalog from an existing package and stops calling dh_installcatalogs. > Then the root catalog would contain a dangling reference and there > really is no way to fix this anymore, because our code is never i

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > So we seem to agree that both solutions (present vs. adding --transition > to sgml-base) are doable and both have their own problems. Are you still > interested in pushing the transitional code to sgml-base? Your arguments > have convinced me that it could work. I have not ye

Bug#669156: Illegal bang-pattern (use -XBangPatterns)

2012-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > That brings us to the language-javascript problem. Firstly, we should > really ask upstream to ship the Lexer.x file from which the Lexer.hs > file is generated. However the reason they reason they ship the haskell > source rather than the lexer source is so that its po

Bug#669480: ikiwiki: FTBFS: ImportError: No module named docutils.core

2012-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Here's what happens when I try to validate a (100% valid) XHTML 1.0 document, now that w3c-sgml-lib has been changed in a way that breaks w3c-html-validator: *** Errors validating html/index.html: *** Error at line 237, character 28: omitted tag minimization parameter can be omitted only

Bug#669487: pyside: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libphonon-dev

2012-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > sbuild-build-depends-pyside-dummy : Depends: libphonon-dev but it is not > > going to be installed > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > apt-get failed. So more than one of these... perh

Bug#669498: github-backup: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libghc-github-dev

2012-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > sbuild-build-depends-github-backup-dummy : Depends: libghc-github-dev but > > it is not going to be installed > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I have no idea what this means. How can it possibly be a bug in github-backup? -- see shy jo

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > > In the unlikely event that the admin called it, it would detect that > > the file was a conffile and not delete it. > > An admin could call update-catalog --transition for a package that was > not rebuilt with the newer debhelper. In that case harm would still > happen. Do

Bug#477751: [ping] Re: Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > These were my points. > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:25:17PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 02:53:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > But update-catalog can get new switches that handle the transition, and > > > deb

Bug#666901: debhelper needs a "Breaks: automake (<< 1.11.2)"

2012-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Severity: serious Inflated. Bug #634741 probably did not affect many packages. It is up to the indidivual package maintainer to use debhelper in a way that produces a good package; there are many ways to use debhelper that produce bad packages, and these are, on the whole, not

Bug#665263: Possible other fix?

2012-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi, > > I believe you have reverted the solution to bug #660794. As I was hit by > this bug #665263 as well, I solved it by changing the line in > dh_usrlocal from: > my $ebs = $bs x 2; # Escape the backslash from the shell > to > my $ebs = $bs;

Bug#659081: haskell-binary

2012-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
binary is now provided by ghc. Besides causing the file conflict documented in #659081, having libghc-binary-dev still around causes some other problems. For one, if a package is built against the binary in ghc, and libghc-binary-dev is installed, ghc sees a conflict and hides the package that depe

Bug#658695: udev-udeb: missing call to input_id

2012-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi Marco, > > in the regular udev package, 50-udev-default.rules has > SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_INPUT}=="", IMPORT{builtin}="input_id". This > file (and rule) seem to be missing from the udeb, which breaks the gtk > image (X doesn't get any input devices). So, users hav

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > I agree that the complexity should not reside in debhelper templates. > However that is already the case. The entire code that is responsible > for #88010 already is contained in debhelper. It is debhelper's prerm > that removes the package catalog from the root catalog. And

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > * preinst will do the tricky transition part. If it is called during an >upgrade and /etc/sgml/$package.cat is not owned by any package (this >is currently the case), then it fixes up the installation. The old >prerm will have the package catalog removed from the

Bug#653840: rootskel-bootfloppy: depends on unavailable klibc-utils-floppy-udeb on ia64

2011-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > rootskel-bootfloppy/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: klibc-utils-floppy-udeb > (>= 1.5-2) This is not a new dependency, it's from 2008 and klibc-utils-floppy-udeb is not built on ia64. But why are you trying to use boot floppies, let alone on ia64 anyway? -- see shy jo

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: > I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not > disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs. > This would permit older installs to continue to use /usr, but > the files would end up on / for new installs. So no changes > to --prefix would be

Bug#617315: policy /usr/local edge case failure

2011-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
retitle 617315 policy /usr/local edge case failure reassign 617315 debian-policy severity 617315 normal thanks Policy requires that creation/removal of directories in /usr/local never fail, but its example does fail as seen in this bug report. Apparently the problem is that the chown or chmod coul

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2011-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > Good. This would also necessitate a versioned dependency on sgml-base. Yes, easy since it already uses misc:Depends. > Do you want a diff for debhelper? Would be appreciated. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2011-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
Helmut Grohne wrote: > So what are your thoughts on this? I haven't considered all the implications... Will the new sgml-base work ok with the old postinst? With mixtures of the new and old postinsts? I'm happy moving ahead with the debhelper changes as soon as sgml-base is in unstable. -- see

Bug#643950: libgssglue1: Do remove bzip2 compression quickly.

2011-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
In other words, this needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY, since this breaks *all* installations of Debian testing and unstable. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#640874: leave: debian/rules is not a Makefile

2011-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > * While it's true that make is largely delegating responsibility to > another program here, it's a common program used by many packages, > and so serves to consolidate a lot of boring common code which is a > fairly standard software virtue. I'd be hard-pressed

Bug#640021: Acknowledgement (contains copypasted descriptions of eg, comics without copyright)

2011-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
There is also a large piece of text about Dirac in another file in calibre, which ends with "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved." -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#640021: contains copypasted descriptions of eg, comics without copyright

2011-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
Package: calibre Severity: serious While looking in the source for something else, I stumbled upon this: ./recipes/comics_com.recipe:# "Peter is a stay-at-home Dad [...] ./recipes/comics_com.recipe:# "Silly family antics and goofball humor

Bug#630163: building all spec files fails: "error: No file attributes configured" (alien also broken)

2011-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: rpm Version: 4.9.0-5 Severity: serious This new version of rpm seems broken at building any spec file I pass to rpmbuild. error: No file attributes configured This happens even if the spec file uses %defattr. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable AP

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