Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Installed size of mawk is 263 MB which is really small for today's standards. KB rather than MB, thankfully! -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#1102391: ITP: python-typing-inspection -- Tools to inspect Python type annotations at runtime

2025-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-typing-inspection Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Contact: Victorien Plot * URL : https://github.com/pydantic/typing-inspection * License : MIT

Misconfigured bookworm upgrades

2025-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
ir systems configured this way makes me wonder what's going on. Does anyone know of documentation somewhere that recommends configuring stable systems this way? Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 03:53:41PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM GMT, Colin Watson wrote: And this in ~/.muttrc: set text_flowed That seems to work pretty well. I reflowed the parts of your message that I quoted here to match. If you happen to use

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
message that I quoted here to match. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: GCC-15 mass bug filing.

2025-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
er than having to disentangle things later when several different failures have all piled up into a big ball of mud. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Upstreams with "official" tarballs differing from their git

2025-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
gt; > With tarballs the granularity of these tools is so much less. This is a false dichotomy, though. It's perfectly possible to use both in conjunction with each other, by importing a tarball on top of an upstream git tag so that the differences between them are represented by a git comm

Re: Packages with a history of security issues and whose packaged version is not up to date

2025-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
> patched vulnerabilities or not. But it doesn't. Santiago's using the data from the security tracker to determine whether CVEs are open. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Packages with a history of security issues and whose packaged version is not up to date

2025-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
todo, some kind of prioritization of which packages out of the huge pile are worth paying more attention to than others is useful to me. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Request for collaborators: DEP-14 conversion script (Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?)

2025-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
in bulk, the change is still going to be disruptive to anyone who has a local clone of any of the affected repositories at the moment. So maybe let's spend time on something else instead. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
one.c", I think it's probably been supported to some extent at least as far back as git 1.5.6. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
does then we should pragmatically regard it only as an indication of what tools that _create_ Debian packaging repositories should do. Renaming branches is intrusive (it still typically requires manual action from anyone who has an existing clone and wants to pull changes!), and so there c

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
but going one step further, NOT pushing upstream branches > to the packaging repositories may help here as well. Pushing upstream branches is only a problem if an upstream branch is set as the default. Otherwise, it's helpful for various tools to have them av

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
aven't been able to observe any way in which it meaningfully affects either me or others, so I'm not going to put energy into it when I could do something else instead). To be told that this means I'm helping to stifle the use of git in Debian is frankly infuriating and insulting. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
can apply > those accordingly. I don't completely agree with the last part of this: I use git-dpm for many packages and I leave MRs switched on anyway, even though it does mean that sometimes I might need to do merges by hand. It's not ideal, but it's OK. (I unders

Re: Is it possible to customise the d-i just to add an ssh authorized key for root

2025-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
target/root/.ssh; echo 'ssh-rsa ...' >/target/root/.ssh/authorized_keys -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
listic to expect reviewers to only submit merge requests on Salsa in the general case (outside of specific situations where you know that the maintaining team uses Salsa actively for more than just git hosting). At least if you file a bug then there's a good chance somebody will actually be told

Re: What is going on with atomics?

2025-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
r *_LDFLAGS variable is appropriate. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
ews on locally-trained models, but I see no very compelling need to find more things to spend energy on even if the costs are lower.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: what is X-Style?

2024-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
rap-and-sort after that package update, and wonder: What is it? https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dh-debputy/debputy.1.en.html https://people.debian.org/~nthykier/blog/2024/debian-packaging-with-style-black.html Cheers, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

2024-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 01:58:14AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > While there are a few bits of that transition tracker still red, the > current target is to work on the list of autopkgtest failures shown on > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python3-defaults in order to get the > additio

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

2024-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:53:42PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 01:58:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > [...] > > * spyder: #1088068/#1089054. > > I'm struggling with this one; I've asked at > https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issue

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

2024-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
chitecture-specific failures showing up there. Some might go away with a few more retries I guess, but we'll likely need to work out what to do about the rest. I haven't looked at these in any depth. Can anyone help with any of the remaining problems here? This would be especially usefu

Bug#1089014: ITP: python-flatdict -- Flattened dict classes for Python

2024-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-flatdict Version : 4.0.1 Upstream Contact: Gavin M. Roy * URL : https://github.com/gmr/flatdict * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang

Bug#1088869: ITP: multipart -- Python multipart/form-data parser

2024-12-02 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: multipart Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Contact: Marcel Hellkamp * URL : https://github.com/defnull/multipart * License : Expat Programming Lang

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > CI for a new-upstream-release commit you've pushed but haven't uploaded > > to the Debian archive yet, because you're waiting for CI. > > > > pristine-tar certain

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
ause you're waiting for CI. pristine-tar certainly isn't the only way here (it's true that CI could in principle fetch it directly from upstream), but I find it much easier than the alternatives. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#1086878: python-catalogue: 2.1.0 was yanked - what version scheme should we use for 2.0.10?

2024-11-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 03:04:13PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 11:41:28AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > But I'm thinking that, perhaps the best option is to ask upstream > > directly, whether they are going to release a 2.1.x release soon, or >

Re: Bug#1086878: python-catalogue: 2.1.0 was yanked - what version scheme should we use for 2.0.10?

2024-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 11:41:28AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2024-11-07 at 02:01:49 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'd initially misread it as being just a day or two after the yanked > > version, but you're right, it was months later. I suspect it was simp

Re: Bug#1086878: python-catalogue: 2.1.0 was yanked - what version scheme should we use for 2.0.10?

2024-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 02:42:08AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2024-11-07 at 01:15:08 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > https://pypi.org/project/catalogue/#history shows that 2.1.0 was yanked > > from PyPI, but it's what we currently have in Debian. Some of the more

Bug#1086878: python-catalogue: 2.1.0 was yanked - what version scheme should we use for 2.0.10?

2024-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
the upstream version numbering scheme changed (cf. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-version), but I'm copying debian-devel as per policy on epoch proposals. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
adding new package relationship fields is a _lot_ of work and should have a very high bar, and the same goes for extending the syntax of existing fields. Not to mention that we're kind of running out of convenient ASCII punctuation characters. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#1086691: ITP: python-quart-trio -- Extension for Quart to support the Trio event loop

2024-11-03 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-quart-trio Version : 0.11.1 Upstream Contact: pgjones * URL : https://github.com/pgjones/quart-trio * License : Expat Programming Lang

Re: Is ftp.upload.debian.org not working?

2024-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
I can spot. > > Is everything working? Things are very slow because a mass-binNMU for PAC/BTI support caused a huge backlog in queue processing. I can now see that your upload was accepted a couple of hours ago, but it may still take a while to reach the archive proper.

Re: Bug#1078734: ITP: legacycrypt -- The legacycrypt module is a standalone version of https://docs.python.org/3/library/crypt.html (deprecated), to ease 3.13 transition.

2024-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
f > existing python-zombie-imp. I think that should only be done where the PyPI name starts with "zombie-" (or I suppose where it doesn't exist - but if we need it and it doesn't exist then IMO somebody should upload it to PyPI first, as namespace clas

Re: Bug#1085206: ITP: evalidate -- Validation and secure evaluation of untrusted Python expressions

2024-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
OK, done, and I asked #debian-ftp to reject the un-namespaced package from NEW. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Local users in autopkgtest hosts

2024-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
dropping privileges to run the actual test is fine and sounds quite reasonable in this case. It'll all be done within the relevant testbed and thrown away at the end of the test. For example, openssh does something similar. I suggest reading /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/REA

Bug#1085206: ITP: evalidate -- Validation and secure evaluation of untrusted Python expressions

2024-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: evalidate Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Contact: Yaroslav Polyakov * URL : https://github.com/yaroslaff/evalidate * License : MIT Programming Lang

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
[Dropping CC to the upstream mailing list.] On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 04:56:21PM +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > On 30/08/2024 17:11, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is now implemented in Debian unstable. I called the packages > > openssh-client-gssapi and openssh-server-gssapi, wit

Re: Replacing isc-dhcp-client with dhcpcd-base (Was: ifupdown maintenance)

2024-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
will be equal to the values in the packages themselves, but those values are nevertheless overridden. This means that uploading a new version of a package to attempt to change its priority or section has no effect; if you need to change those, you _must_ get ftpmaster to change the override, and otherw

Re: Please help me fix the build pipeline for apt-listchanges on Salsa, which is failing

2024-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
ng when you first add something to the unreleased changelog, and "dch -r" will update it when you're ready to make an upload), but it should be present. Leaving it empty isn't the usual practice among other developers as far as I've seen, and it&#x

Re: Please help me fix the build pipeline for apt-listchanges on Salsa, which is failing

2024-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
a non-deprecated way. (Sometimes that requires other adjustments too, but in this case adding the build-dependency on its own is enough.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-08-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 01:30:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > * for Debian trixie (current testing): > >* add dependency-only packages called something like > openssh-client-gsskex and openssh-server-gsskex, depending on their > non-gsskex alternatives >

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
time trying to debug them from cold, such as AppArmor profiles and example scripts, and it's just good manners to give maintainers an explicit heads-up. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
ut it seems a big coincidence that the symlink was dropped a few days after this IRC conversation; and yet it seems nobody bothered to do the most basic due diligence that I pointed out here, which is kind of sad. (I fixed wireless-tools after this change caused an RC bug there.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Ship a git .bundle in .dsc and .deb

2024-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
e quite happy with a plain directory as long as it has the right files in it, and it doesn't need a .git subdirectory. It seems as though you'd just need to have QMK_HOME fall back to /usr/share/qmk-firmware (or whatever) if it isn't explicitly set. Am I mis

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
e context you're using it in (desktop, server, cloud, etc.). -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#1075905: ITP: python-fraction -- Fraction carries out all the fraction operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reciprocation

2024-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
an > > create a patch specifically for moarchiving. > > As reported elsewhere, moarchiving declares a dep on it but doesn't > actually import it. > This needs to be fixed upstream to. I proposed https://github.com/CMA-ES/moarchiving/pull/9 upstream. -- Colin Watson (he/hi

Bug#1074420: ITP: python-yubihsm -- Python library for the YubiHSM 2

2024-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-yubihsm Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Contact: Dain Nilsson * URL : https://github.com/Yubico/python-yubihsm * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1074215: ITP: yubihsm-shell -- Command-line and interactive tool for the YubiHSM 2

2024-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: yubihsm-shell Version : 2.5.0 Upstream Contact: Yubico Open Source Maintainers * URL : https://developers.yubico.com/yubihsm-shell/ * License

Bug#1074211: ITP: python-expandvars -- bash-style environment variable expansion in Python

2024-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-expandvars Version : 0.12.0 Upstream Contact: Arijit Basu * URL : https://github.com/sayanarijit/expandvars * License : MIT Programming

Bug#1074007: ITP: yubihsm-connector -- USB to HTTP bridge for the YubiHSM

2024-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: yubihsm-connector Version : 3.0.4 Upstream Contact: Yubico Open Source Maintainers * URL : https://developers.yubico.com/yubihsm-connector/ * License

Re: Bug#1072501: ITP: systemd-boot-installer -- Install systemd-boot on a hard disk

2024-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
nterfaces on both the d-i and the systemd side are stable enough. >From the d-i side we've generally preferred to have all the UI be part of the installer (especially for translations etc.). -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#1072397: ITP: zope.deferredimport -- Deferred imports of Python modules

2024-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: zope.deferredimport Version : 5.0 Upstream Contact: Zope Foundation and Contributors * URL : http://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.deferredimport

Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 01:27:54PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-04-11T15:37:46+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > Or, because some upstream maintainers have learned through, long, > > &

Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
ed configure script to be busted (sometimmes subtly), and > so distrust relying on blind autoreconf always working. When was the last time this actually happened to you? I certainly remember it being a problem in the early 2.5x days, but it's been well over a decade s

Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
o land changes there in the past so that its other facilities can still be useful without getting in my way. Search for "compat_release" in https://salsa.debian.org/janitor-team/janitor.debian.net/-/blob/master/k8s/policy.conf. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: finally end single-person maintainership (Was: becoming a debian member under a not-real name)

2024-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 06:32:47PM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > Am 06.04.24 um 18:29 schrieb Colin Watson: > > There might be some small errors in this, but I couldn't see any when > > eyeballing the resulting uniquified list of Maintainer fields. It looks > > like

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
). I'd argue that this, and the similar error case in patches-unapplied, is symmetric with the error case in the patches-applied workflow (although it's true that there is redundancy in _commits_ in the latter case). -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
, that's https://bugs.debian.org/1068311 which I linked to elsewhere in this thread. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
een packages. But maybe. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
bian.org/1068311. That would still mean one more library than strictly needed (once the GSS-API stuff is split out), but at least it would be one small library rather than a big linkage chain over 30 times the size. I could probably justify keeping it in that case. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
orted, but configure fails to detect this). -- Colin Watson Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:06:08 +0100 -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: autoreconf --force not forcing (was Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories)

2024-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 08:20:31PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:05:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:57:20PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Does gnulib upstream support upgrading/downgrading the gnulib m4 files > > >

Re: autoreconf --force not forcing (was Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories)

2024-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
use the --local-dir option of gnulib-tool, which allows overriding individual Gnulib files or modules or applying patches to Gnulib files; or you can define a bootstrap_post_import_hook function in bootstrap.conf and do whatever you want there. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
e to point out that DNS-based ACLs are supported by Match blocks without needing a separate library. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 12:04:26PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 02, Colin Watson wrote: > > At the time, denyhosts was popular, but it was removed from Debian > > several years ago. I remember that, when I dealt with that on my own > > systems, fail2ban seemed li

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
ler and I think safer to just have a separate openssh-client-gsskeyex package. Like today's openssh-client, it would be usable both with and without GSS-API key exchange. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
essary onto the variant that includes an extra 4000-odd-line patch. For the time being my inclination is to leave this be, but I've seen the suggestion that pam_selinux is basically all you need (https://infosec.exchange/@alwayscurious/112192949171400643), so maybe it would be an option to drop --with-selinux in favour of that? I've never used SELinux, so I'd need an expert to weigh on here. Comments welcome, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 05:24:45PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 11:33:06AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> Running ./bootstrap in a tarball may lead to different results than the > >> maintainer running ./bootstrap

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
git. > > Er, well, there goes every C package for which I'm upstream, all of which > have M4 macros in m4/* that do not come from an external source. Ditto. And a bunch of the packages where I'm not upstream too, such as that famously enthusiastic adopter of all t

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
"translations" had nothing to do with the source strings even without understanding Ukrainian. * If you're faced with a user report containing translated messages, then it's much easier to figure out what's going on if you can just loo

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
that the number here is very low - IME it's much more common in such cases to either rename the macro file to be obviously project-specific or to find some workaround that doesn't require changing the upstream macro - but I've never seen anything resembling a robust analysis of th

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 09:35:09AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 08:15:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 05:12:17PM +0100, Sirius wrote: > > > I have seen discussion about shifting away from the whole auto(re)conf > > >

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
s built using it, but it did make it into noble-proposed (the current unstable analogue) for some time and noble (the current testing analogue) briefly. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
eral something that Debian can unilaterally change. And in a number of cases switching build system would be pretty non-trivial. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: ITP: gtk-gnutella -- The Most Efficient Gnutella Client

2024-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
somebody who doesn't have upstream commit access. This event is traditionally followed by cursing. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Run Debian packaging tasks remotely with debusine.debian.net

2024-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
ts own idea of reasonable base tarballs to use for (e.g.) unstable amd64 builds and won't need to be told manually. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: clustalw lost in debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.{gx}z ?

2024-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
actual pool files, to avoid mirroring race conditions.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: clustalw lost in debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.{gx}z ?

2024-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
... and in fact https://bugs.debian.org/1063063 seems to have been filed by you? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Run Debian packaging tasks remotely with debusine.debian.net

2024-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
nough pieces to make it possible for Debian developers to build something like ratt using debusine - probably in a "some assembly required" kind of way at first. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Run Debian packaging tasks remotely with debusine.debian.net

2024-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:06:48PM + schrieb Colin Watson: > > While for the moment Debusine may seem like a less polished version of > > Salsa CI, it has very different goals, > > Speaking about Salsa CI

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
ver passing every macro into a > package, independent if it's used or not. > > Not seeing any benefit in this feature (hard failure). Your examples aren't what Niels refers to as "relationship substvars", so aren't affected either way by this proposal. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
rticular field would be simpler than that - probably just two lines in debian/rules. I think that would be tolerable if the need is as rare as I think it is, though of course it'd be worth documenting. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
he terminal log, but it's possible you don't. > This system is using sysvinit instead of systemd, and perhaps that's the > problem? I noticed when I tried to reinstall wdm, apt wanted to remove > sysvinit and presumably use systemd as the init program. What happens if you try

Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
iffs via the BTS. This remains the standard > policy for NMUs in Debian per the Developer's Reference, and as far as I > know has worked effectively for all such previous ABI transitions. In the current situation, though, not having experimental available means that there's no opp

Re: Bug#1059618: ITP: ssh3 -- faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

2023-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
at will break this independent parser in future. I also feel that something security-critical like this that's labelled by upstream as "still experimental" probably shouldn't be in a Debian release. Maybe it should be kept in Debian experimental for the time being? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
(as opposed to "-", "'", "`", "^", and "~" respectively) will produce better printed output. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
rom the typo in the last URL segment, the penultimate segment identifies the binary package, and grog(1) is in the groff-base package rather than groff. https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/groff-base/grog.1.en.html -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
pe/2.13.0%2Bdfsg-1/ft2demos/man/ftlint.1/ Your problem is that you need this line as the very first line of the page to instruct man(1) to run the tbl preprocessor: '\" t See https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/man-db/man.1.en.html#DEFAULTS. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
se you're seeing a warning from groff. What exact check is failing here (is it lintian, or something else)? Could you please give us a pointer to the man page in question? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
hich means any warnings it issues are going to be inaccurate representations of how pages are actually rendered in practice. Your starting point should be to add -t to the groff command line in this check, and then see what else shows up after that. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#1043360: ITP: python-poetry-dynamic-versioning -- dynamic versioning plugin for Poetry

2023-08-09 Thread Colin Watson
kages from a source package rather than directly from git and the source package doesn't usually include a git tree? Is it just a matter of causing the plugin to exist so that pybuild doesn't fail, but in practice the version is still going to be set by something that's actually in th

Re: systmd-analyze security as a release goal

2023-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
compatibility syscalls allows circumventing other systemd hardening that filters syscalls (RestrictAddressFamilies=, MemoryDenyWriteExecute=, SystemCallFilter=). Allowing qemu also doesn't make much difference either way to that though - if your process can't make a syscall directly, it can

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
doesn't depend on installer support. There are doubtless edge cases where you need a completely separate kernel, but they aren't really ones I run into. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 03:26:52PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 2/27/23 13:56, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2023-02-26T13:30:58+0000, Colin Watson wrote: > >> First, move your current branch somewhere for reference, then make a new > >> one. Then, my

Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nowerror

2023-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
deed take rather more than a month to clear its build queues last time, even though it was only running two full rebuilds rather than four. I don't think we're going to be able to get real hardware with the hypervisor extension particularly soon, but we may be able to throw some more x

Re: Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
which is probably a good idea since you're unfamiliar with git-dpm. > How do we move forward with this? I am anxious about the closing of the > soft freeze window. There is no way that this giant new upstream release will be suitable at this stage in the freeze; it's too late.

Re: Q: How about versions/features in bookworm?

2022-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 01:58:21PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Q3: Does OpenSSH9.1p go into bookworm? I just uploaded this to unstable, so barring any major unforeseen issues I expect this to be in bookworm, yes. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: libpaper and gnulib

2022-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
ch is still full of stupid vulnerabilities due to people getting sprintf or realpath buffer sizes wrong or race conditions while traversing directory trees. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

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