Using dh causes configure to be run twice?

2019-07-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
In my attempt to convert e2fsprfogs's debian/rules to use dh, I'm running into yet another frustration with dh, which is that it insists on running the configure script twice. The problem is that dh is trying to use build-arch and build-indep: % dh build --no-act debian/rules build-arch deb

Bug#931755: ITP: python-b2-sdk -- Python library to access B2 cloud storage.

2019-07-09 Thread Ondrej Koblizek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ondrej Koblizek * Package name: python-b2-sdk Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Backblaze, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/Backblaze/b2-sdk-python * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python lib

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:24 PM Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > To be fair, doesn't the QA team (and random acts of kindness) often > keep these packages alive? There is no specific team maintaining orphaned packages, other than the set of Debian contributors who are motivated to do that. -- bye, p

Re: Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT

2019-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:53 AM Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Timeline suggestion > --- > now add a warning to apt 1.9.x for repositories w/o InRelease, but > Release{,.gpg} > Aug/Sep turn the warning into an error, overridable with an option (?) > Q1 2020 remove th

Re: Error when running dh_dwz (actually an error when running dwz(1))

2019-07-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Boyuan, > I don't have much experience of dealing with debugging symbols so any hints > would be appreciated. I would also be interested in this from my "Lintian hat" of: https://bugs.debian.org/931632#35 Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@deb

Re: Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT

2019-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:53:04PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >So, > >we currently have code dealing with falling back from InRelease >to Release{,.gpg} and it's all a bit much IMO. Now that buster >has been released with an InRelease file, the time has IMO come for >us to drop support for t

Bug#931738: ITP: libkainjow-mustache -- Mustache text templates for modern C++

2019-07-09 Thread Kunal Mehta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kunal Mehta * Package name: libkainjow-mustache Version : 3.2.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Wojniak * URL : https://github.com/kainjow/Mustache * License : BSL-1.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Mustache text te

Error when running dh_dwz (actually an error when running dwz(1))

2019-07-09 Thread Boyuan Yang
Dear -devel list, Looks like dh_dwz was recently added into debhelper and it is causing some FTBFS on one of my packages. It could be a bug of dwz itself but I'm looking for some help inside Debian first. Please try to build package marisa from its git packaging repo ( https://salsa.debian.org/i

Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT

2019-07-09 Thread Julian Andres Klode
So, we currently have code dealing with falling back from InRelease to Release{,.gpg} and it's all a bit much IMO. Now that buster has been released with an InRelease file, the time has IMO come for us to drop support for the old stuff from APT! Timeline suggestion --- now

dev-ref: migration to Sphinx (was Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports)

2019-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:15:57AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > > it to developers-reference. (FYI: I am trying to convert > > developers-reference to sphinx now and working on a branch. Any > > volunteer to help this is appreciated.) > Is that branch on salsa? yes, see "#931548 Migration to S

Re: Could we generate d/control instead of working with "assembly level code" directly (was: Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files)

2019-07-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:24:40PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Your proposal of generating some of the fields doesn't affect the API > itself, as long as the fields are populated at the right time. We don't > have a mechanism for updating the control file at build time, because any > part of the

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
To everyone who is working on this problem, thank you :-) On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:38:14AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > Hi again, > > On 09.07.19 09:17, Michael Kesper wrote: > > I think this is still starting a little bit negative, maybe like this? > > > > If nobody adopts this package it w

Re: NEW queue and src-only uploads [Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!]

2019-07-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 09 Jul 2019 at 08:45AM -04, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Why is it, then, that binary-NEW still applies if there have been no > source files added/removed? (A SONAME bump possibly being necessitated > by some change that does not involve adding/removing/renaming source > files.) Fo

Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 10:37AM +10, Ben Finney wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > >> Ben Finney writes: >> >> > It may be “bare debian” is meant to cover this; but I don't >> > recognise the comment “requires use of quilt and similar tools” >> > because I've never needed to use Quilt for thi

Re: NEW queue and src-only uploads [Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!]

2019-07-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 01:33:49PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 02:02PM +02, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > I would go even further and drop the (manual) NEW queue for binary-NEW > > packages. > > Is there a good reason why new binary packages need manual processing

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-07-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 09 Jul 2019 at 12:16AM +02, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 07, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > >> Q: I already did a binary upload, do I need to do a new (source-only) >> upload? >> A: Yes (preferably with other changes, not just a version bump). > Is there any good reason why we st

Re: NEW queue and src-only uploads [Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!]

2019-07-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 02:02PM +02, Michael Biebl wrote: > I would go even further and drop the (manual) NEW queue for binary-NEW > packages. > Is there a good reason why new binary packages need manual processing by > the FTP team? Couldn't this be fully automated? The three things the F

Bug#931704: ITP: r-cran-rook -- web server interface for R

2019-07-09 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: r-cran-rook Version : 1.1 * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rook * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: R Description : web server interface for R Group maintained on http

Re: Could we generate d/control instead of working with "assembly level code" directly (was: Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files)

2019-07-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 09 Jul 2019, Simon Richter wrote: > Your proposal of generating some of the fields doesn't affect the API > itself, as long as the fields are populated at the right time. We don't > have a mechanism for updating the control file at build time, because any > part of the build process that wo

Bug#931703: ITP: python-json-logger -- JSON library for Python logging framework

2019-07-09 Thread Ondrej Koblizek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ondrej Koblizek * Package name: python-json-logger Version : 0.1.11 Upstream Author : Zakaria Zajac * URL : https://github.com/madzak/python-json-logger * License : BSD-2-Clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Could we generate d/control instead of working with "assembly level code" directly (was: Re: The noudeb build profile and dh-only rules files)

2019-07-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:12:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Instead, I have been toying with the idea of treating d/control as > something we generate. While not entirely novel in itself, once you > start generating d/control, you can do interesting rewrites such as: I've started work i

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi again, On 09.07.19 09:17, Michael Kesper wrote: > I think this is still starting a little bit negative, maybe like this? > > If nobody adopts this package it will vanish from Debian. > Do you care for this package being part of Debian? ^^^ Maybe change this "package"

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-09 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 19:18:17 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >one of the cron maintainers here, and also the cronie maintainer. thanks for the swift answer. >> What is the issue that keeps cronie out of unstable? If it just a matter >> of personpower, or are there technical reasons? If it's

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi all, On 07.07.19 14:47, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:07:19AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote:[snip] >> This text comes from a template we use in the MIA-Team. >> You can find it here: >> https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/