Re: Does removal of global variables from a library break C ABI?

2023-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Talbert writes: > In one of the library packages I maintain (hidapi), upstream removed a > couple of global variables (my .symbols file noticed this). See > abipkgdiff below. > Does this break ABI? My assessment is that it does NOT, but I would > like to confirm. These variables were no

Does removal of global variables from a library break C ABI?

2023-01-17 Thread Scott Talbert
In one of the library packages I maintain (hidapi), upstream removed a couple of global variables (my .symbols file noticed this). See abipkgdiff below. Does this break ABI? My assessment is that it does NOT, but I would like to confirm. These variables were not declared in a header file, s

Re: Bug#1028467: ITP: borgbackup2 -- version 2.x of a deduplicating and compressing backup program

2023-01-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags 1029085 + wontfix Control: close 1029085 Hi Scott, On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:52:49PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > It's not policy compliant, which may be okay in this instance, but it > certainly isn't ideal. I looked into this and figured that indeed the Debian Policy has a s

Re: Bug#1028467: ITP: borgbackup2 -- version 2.x of a deduplicating and compressing backup program

2023-01-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On January 17, 2023 2:39:32 PM UTC, Helmut Grohne wrote: >Hi Jonathan, > >Thanks for your review. > >On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:12:10PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> I'm not sure that alternatives is appropriate, if the commands are not >> interchangeable. And they are not: if you have 1 &

Re: Bug#1028467: ITP: borgbackup2 -- version 2.x of a deduplicating and compressing backup program

2023-01-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your review. On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 02:12:10PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'm not sure that alternatives is appropriate, if the commands are not > interchangeable. And they are not: if you have 1 & 2 installed on a > host, and have used one to create some backups, t

Re: Bug#1028467: ITP: borgbackup2 -- version 2.x of a deduplicating and compressing backup program

2023-01-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
(setting CC according to X-Debbugs-CC, not sure if appropriate since posting via -devel, but well, I don't think we should have ITP's on -devel anyway.) On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 02:32:13PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: The root of this ITP is #1019950. The crux of the matter is that borg 2.x is

Bug#1029078: ITP: depix -- recovers passwords from pixelized screenshots

2023-01-17 Thread Guilherme de Paula Xavier Segundo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guilherme de Paula Xavier Segundo X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, guilherme@gmail.com, debian-security-to...@lists.debian.org, si...@factosec.nl * Package name: depix Version : 0.0~git20220716 Upstream Contact: Sipke Mellem

Re: Help patching files in dependency package

2023-01-17 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 08:52:50AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 00:55 +0100, Tobias Wackenhut wrote: > > > What would be the cleanest way to package the new version with the > > mentioned patch? > > Ask the extension author to get the patch included into the upstream > rt5 cor

Bug#1029062: ITP: gosa-plugins-ldapmanager -- ldapmanager plugin for GOsa

2023-01-17 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gosa-plugins-ldapmanager Version : 2.8~ Upstream Author : GONICUS GmbH * URL : https://github.com/gosa-project/gosa-plugins-ldapmanager * License :