Re: Troubleshooting experimental build - how to replicate the sbuild?

2025-04-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
e you compared the build logs, especially the configure-like step where CMake examines the environment and looks for various syscalls, functions, etc, to see if there were differences between the schroot and unshare backend builds? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@deb

Re: popularity-contest and gpg

2025-03-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 12:44:47AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:46:23PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:22:50PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > I am among the people who have moved towards the Sequoia family of

Re: popularity-contest and gpg

2025-03-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:46:23PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:22:50PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > I am among the people who have moved towards the Sequoia family of > > > cryptographic tools; in particular, sqop (a Sequoia implementa

Re: popularity-contest and gpg

2025-03-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 07:45:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Dear Debian developpers, > > > > popularity-contest relies on /usr/bin/gpg for encrypting files. > > (it cannot use gpgv which

Re: popularity-contest and gpg

2025-03-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
rypted data [sym alg is specified in pub-key encrypted session key] (plain text + MDC SHA1(20 bytes)) [roam@straylight ~]$ Hope that helps! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key:https://www.ringlet

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 02:59:16PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 14:35, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: > > > Le 2025-01-07 21:52, Peter Pentchev a écrit : > > > >

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: > Le 2025-01-07 21:52, Peter Pentchev a écrit : > > > > Hm. That sounds interesting, but I think the Debian project cannot > > protect such a mirror from automatically bringing in non-DFSG content &g

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
An automatic mirror cannot do that. (and no, even if one says "well the responsibility is on the developer who first marked that remote repo for mirroring", no, I don't think there is a way that developer can know that, two weeks later, somebody will push bad stuff there) G

Re: Contents indices files

2024-12-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
uestion is really about reprepro, then take a look at the "Contents" option in the definition of a distribution (the conf/distributions file); putting "Contents:" on a line by itself will make reprepro generate the files. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > &g

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > >

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
's not actually essential for adding a user. If you don't like the policy > that useradd sets...just don't use it. In the context of the whole thread, are you suggesting that adduser(1) should be changed to use something other than useradd(8) under the hood? G'luck, P

Re: Suitability of Rust for *all* architectures? [WAS Re: Rustc unsoundness on i386]

2024-11-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
ll-time DD who often wishes he would allocate more time to help with Rust packaging in Debian: go for it. (not sure if you were actually asking for lurkers to pipe in; thought I would on the off chance of "everyone who agrees is silent") G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ri

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-11-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . _ - The last three characters are the , , and characters, respectively. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key:https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
s for your desire to make working on Debian easier and better! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key:https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
k, except for the low chance of anybody having a 1.14-7+something local version. Still, I thought I'd mention this for the more general case. And thanks for holding this discussion in the first place! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com

Re: sensible languages for younger contributors (was Re: lintian.debian.org off ?)

2024-09-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
yping, and I do use it for some local projects, but unfortunately I don't think it will ever gain the popularity it deserves) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key:https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: universal zcat ?

2024-09-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination > > of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the > > supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, and zstd. There are also acat in the atool package, and bsdcat in the libarchive-tools package. G

Bug#1078082: ITP: python-test-tunnel -- Write tests for network tunnelling utilities

2024-08-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-test-tunnel Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
$dirname: $!\n"; say "locked, it seems"; sleep(3600);' I only put the sleep() part so I could check using lsof that the directory was indeed locked. And yeah, the v5.10 part is a leftover from the days (...until a month or two ago...) when I still had to support st

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ty, default "yes", so that it is activated on new automatically installed systems, but people who upgrade their current Debian installations can choose to keep the old behavior? I do realize that more debconf prompts are not always desirable, and such decisions must be taken on a case-by-cas

Re: Git and SHA1 collisions

2024-03-31 Thread Peter Pentchev
that not what "the second countermeasure" part was? If a first commit has ever been pushed, the second one would not be "visible". G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.ke

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:40:51AM +, Traut Manuel LCPF-CH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:02:29PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > >>> On 7 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Dima Kogan wrote: >

Re: Bug#1065669: ITP: raven -- A lightweight http file upload service used for penetration testing and incident response.

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
umbrella. > > What's the problem with > > nc -lp 80 > file > > ? > > Does this provide some sort of browser interface? To start with, raven seems to allow uploading more than one file :) The description on the project homepage lists several features such as access

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress in unstable

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
g *all* of these problems and making sure none of the libraries that might cause them ever migrates to testing - this is the whole point. So yeah, thanks a lot to the drivers of this transition, to the Release Team, and to DDs (porters and otherwise) who help with that! IMHO, it is goi

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:02:29PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > > Hi Dima, > > > > > On 7 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Dima Kogan wrote: > > > > > > Hi. Thanks for your contribution. I looked at

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
four bytes to the kernel - and they are 0, 0, 0, and... 0. So it turns out that uio_disable_irq() and uio_enable_irq() do exactly the same - send a 32-bit zero value to the kernel. Is this the expected behavior indeed? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@stor

Re: Setting permissions on new users in postinst

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
fix this? I haven't tested that, but my first attempt would be to add --no-start to the invocation of dh_installsystemd in your rules file (you may need to add an override_dh_installsystemd target to do that), and then your postinst script would look something like that: #DEBHELPER# setup f

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
-dev sbin localization/locales > > Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for > some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same > name)? I don't know about many of the others (although I have my suspicions), but the two pr

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
o > >determine whether the user is in a restricted shell, and pkexec is > >essentially a type of sudo and should be unavailable to anyone who is > >using a restricted shell. > > Ah okay, makes sense…ish (sudo does not check this). It does if one configures it to by settin

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd in this particular case, Lauren, I *will* get around to taking a look at yours soon, honest!) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E

Re: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs (was: Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3)

2024-01-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
w been proven through testing that some of the dependent modules are not really affected by the incompatible change. In my experience, nowadays this happens much, much more rarely than 10 or 15 years ago. I have no idea how long it will take the Rust ecosystem to realize that. I know that some of the most widely used modules have already done that, some of them have been at the same 0.x.* or even 1.* version for years (yes, really, years). So... here's hoping. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1055198: ITP: lzfse -- LZFSE Compression library

2023-11-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd shipped in macOS > containing embedded firmwares. See asahi-fwextract ITP: #1055206 > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson > > > [1]: > https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/asahi-fwextract/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/patches/0001-Use-versioned-library-name-for-liblzfs

Bug#1052135: ITP: check-build -- Check whether some example programs can be compiled and built

2023-09-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Debian Python Team , r...@debian.org * Package name: check-build Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/check-build

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
hich seems to be the only way it supports multithreaded operation right now), this could be arranged - I just never thought anybody wanted that until now. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roa

Re: Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
en, if there is a default shipped in /usr, the service authentication attempts may suddenly start succeeding when the PAM packages are upgraded on an existing system. Yes, I know that the override/drop-in mechanism provides a way to do that by creating a /dev/null override symlink, but the sysad

Re: Bug#1050005: ITP: pdftopng -- Convert PDF to PNG

2023-08-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
package, that the "Python library" part may be important: the upstream authors of the other project may have decided to use it, as a Python library, instead of fiddling with child process management by themselves. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: autodep8 test for C/C++ header

2023-08-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ight now. So... yeah. Thanks for your work, I know you mean well and you are trying to make the life of Debian developers better, but this particular approach will likely fail on a non-trivial set of Debian -dev packages. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p.

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
reating and testing patches for this transition. > Marking removal is too much. On the other hand, the bugs have been open for an year and a half now... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roa

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
/snaps exactly for that reason. But nothing do with > anything discussed here though, as far as I can tell? If an ELF executable, compiled on Debian, records its interpreter as /usr/lib/ld-linux.so.2, what happens when one tries to run it on a non-usr-merged system? Even one wi

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
ay (consciously or not) learn to ignore it. I think a one-time notification via a (Debian) NEWS entry would be a better choice. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:01:07PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 06-04-2023 15:37, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I feel like I cannot ask for an unblock from the release > > managers since the sparc64 buildd started failing on this package > > at some point i

Re: Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 04:37:16PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > The libzstd package in testing is currently missing a couple of > build-time tests and a fix for a very rare data corruption bug. > Both of these have been fixed in libstd-1.5.4+dfsg2-5 in unstable; ..

Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
ully. Is it possible that something is wrong with the sparc64 buildd? Could somebody with an actual sparc64 box try to build libstd-1.5.4+dfsg2-5 and let me know if it works for them? Thanks in advance! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.co

Re: Introducing Declarative Debian

2023-04-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
" pledge is hard enough, but doing it as a good phishing campaign with a large chance of success makes it a lot harder. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_auto_test: use check target instead of the test target

2023-03-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
dh_auto_test: dh_auto_test -- check (any arguments after the ones that the debhelper tools understand will be passed right on through to the build tools that they execute) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 03:26:47PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 01:55:02PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Peter Pentchev (2023-02-22 10:49:30) > > > So I've seen this idea floating around in the past couple of years > > > (and i

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 01:55:02PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Peter Pentchev (2023-02-22 10:49:30) > > So I've seen this idea floating around in the past couple of years > > (and in some places even earlier), but I started doing it for > > the couple of pi

Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
Thanks for reading this far, and keep up the great work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1030785: -ffile-prefix-map option and reproducibility

2023-02-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 09:51:50AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 10:21:31 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I can't speak of many other systems, but at least with Perl's XS > > (the standard way to write Perl modules parts of which are compiled C

Re: Bug#1030785: -ffile-prefix-map option and reproducibility

2023-02-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
d say that "record the C compiler flags at build time" is pretty much standard practice for such interface providers. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1030757: ITP: python-parse-stages -- Parse a mini-language for selecting objects by tag or name

2023-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-parse-stages Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com

Bug#1030756: ITP: python-test-stages -- Run Tox, Nox, etc. tests in groups, stopping on errors

2023-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-test-stages Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com

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

2023-01-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
using those symbols. JFTR (I'm pretty sure that both Scott and Russ know this), https://sources.debian.org/ can help one figure out whether some other Debian package uses them. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://p

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 02:11:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:11:40PM -0500, nick black wrote: > > it's 2023 and imho time to stop supporting unshadowed passwords > > from the installer. > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-te

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
s 2. i just don't think this belongs in the > installer anymore. I know what NIS/YP is, I know of a couple of places where it is still in use, and, as Mark Haber said, the people running those places know how to find and flip a switch. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringle

Re: setting sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range

2023-01-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
ot;ping is not setuid" default, then mention that debconf setting in a comment in the file that the package installs in the sysctl.d/ directory. Other than that, I think making ping not setuid is a great idea. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p.

Re: Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
have autopkgtests that compile trivial programs for other library packages, I don't know why I didn't add one (and now, it seems, at least two) for libzstd when I adopted it. Thanks again for the idea! Once again, thanks to everyone for the relevant critique and helpful suggestions! G

Re: Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 02:00:31PM +0100, Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > Il giorno lun 26 dic 2022 alle 08:37:51 +02:00:00, Peter Pentchev > ha scritto: > > In #1020403 there is a request to install the CMake build glue for > > the zstd library in its -dev package. I think that this

Re: Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 08:37:51AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > In #1020403 there is a request to install the CMake build glue for > the zstd library in its -dev package. I think that this is a good > idea, and I have a pretty much ready-for-uploading set of changes >

Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
ry. That's not a big hurdle; if people say that this is the way to go, then this is what will be done. Many thanks to all the people who keep working on all the tools and toolchains that make this message make sense at all! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.n

Re: Q: Uploading huge size package and memory concern with running lintian

2022-11-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
in this: (an older version of) the unidic-mecab package is already in the Debian archive. This is not about a new package, but a package update. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.a

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
g 5.? Do you mean having packages with the same names, but different versions (even if only Debian revisions) and totally different contents, and also built from different source packages, in different sections of the same suite in the archive?... I'm... I'm not sure this would work

Bug#1008207: ITP: remrun -- copy a file to a remote host and execute it there

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@ringlet.net * Package name: remrun Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/remrun/ * License : BSD-2-clause

Re: libzstd should not be maintained by Debian Med team - could some core team please take over (Was: libzstd 1.5.2 in Debian)

2022-03-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 05:11:07PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Am Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 07:40:26PM +0200 schrieb Peter Pentchev: > > > there was a (private) request to upgrade libzstd to latest 1.5.2. > > > > > > I'd like to repeat that

Bug#1006606: ITP: python-cfg-diag -- common configuration-storage class with a .diag() method

2022-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-cfg-diag Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://github.com/storpool

Re: libzstd should not be maintained by Debian Med team - could some core team please take over (Was: libzstd 1.5.2 in Debian)

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
ill try to do that in the next couple of days. Apologies for the months of delay, and thanks a lot for all of your team's work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerp

Bug#1006178: ITP: tox-delay -- run some Tox tests after others have completed

2022-02-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: tox-delay Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net/devel/tox-delay/ * License : BSD-2

Bug#1005131: ITP: utf8-locale -- detect a UTF-8-capable locale for running child processes in

2022-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: utf8-locale Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/utf8-locale * License : BSD-2

Re: Adding new language/locale to system via a graphical interface

2022-01-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
ND=gnome after installing the libgtk3-perl package ought to work, and it seems to work for me: sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome dpkg-reconfigure locales ...brings up a GTK+ interface. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://peo

Bug#1001612: ITP: deltarpm -- Tools to create and apply deltarpms

2021-12-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org, team+pkg-...@tracker.debian.org * Package name: deltarpm Version : 3.6.3 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder * URL : https://github.com/rpm-software

Re: WARNING: dh_installsystemd is moving unit files to /usr/lib/systemd/system

2021-08-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
ound my service and started it. So, it's not as bad as it looks at first :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian security repository canonical URI?

2021-08-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
come outdated and it is okay to use a mirror for the security repository; just thought I'd mention that. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
oks listed at https://www.debian.org/doc/ Hope that helps! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17

Re: a proper-unix meta package (Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm)

2021-04-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
le who say "the decision that one specific action did not mean that SCO owns the copyright still does not necessarily mean that there are no other reasons for SCO-name-of-the-month to own the copyright")... Sorry... some people do say that I sometimes worry too much and throw w

Bug#982562: general: Storing upstream signatures next to upstream tarballs is problematic

2021-02-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
ian/master pristine-tar checkout -s ../confget_2.3.4.orig.tar.xz.asc ../confget_2.3.4.orig.tar.xz gpg --verify ../confget_2.3.4.orig.tar.xz{.asc,} G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about generated dependencies

2021-02-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:24:02AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:50:35PM +0200, Boian Bonev wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Hi All, > > > > While playing with glibc 2.33 (I made a couple of

Re: Question about generated dependencies

2021-02-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
ram uses it, you need to depend on that". But, yeah, the libc6 symbols file actually declares a << dependency relation, too, so there it is :) Hope that helped! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: restarting instanced systemd services on upgrade

2020-11-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
of having a no-op service vs a target] (looks up from taking notes for the long-long-long-overdue conversion of stunnel4 to systemd, being held back mainly by myself not having a very clear idea which of the options to choose) Thanks *a lot* for this awesome concise yet complete explanati

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
> And the same applies when _OPTIONS is filtered instead of _PROFILES. > > > Did I get that right? Just as a data point: for some time now I've been checking both variables with a single check :) ifeq (,$(filter nodoc,${DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS} ${DEB_BUILD_PROFILES})) ... endif ...does the job, with some possible overkill, but, hey, it works. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [qubes-devel] Re: DNF for Debian

2020-07-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
t;> it's ok(ish) if the stuff is outdated today, but in 6 month it really > >> should be current. > >> (and then after the release we can slack a bit again, though usually it's > >> less effort to always package and upload the latest version.) > >>

Re: Pimp your shell - Debian developer tips?

2020-06-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
from > ~" — Isn't it what \w produces? Yes, and there are some distributions that use \W, not \w, in their default prompt, and there are lots of people Out There(tm) who do not even realize that \w is an option :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p

Bug#961806: ITP: libmodulemd -- C Library for manipulating module metadata files

2020-05-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev Control: block 912338 by -1 * Package name: libmodulemd Version : 2.9.4 Upstream Author : Stephen Gallagher , Igor Gnatenko * URL : https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd * License : Expat

Bug#961801: ITP: zchunk -- compress a file into independent chunks

2020-05-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev Control: block 912338 by -1 * Package name: zchunk Version : 1.1.5 Upstream Author : Jonathan Dieter * URL : https://github.com/zchunk/zchunk * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#961799: ITP: libdrpm -- library for making, reading and applying deltarpm packages

2020-05-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev Control: block 912338 by -1 * Package name: libdrpm Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Matej Chalk * URL : https://github.com/rpm-software-management/drpm * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C

Re: packages that are touching /srv?

2020-02-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
t; what do we gain by this? We do not let services start exposing information that was just lying there because something else - or someone else - created a /srv/ftp directory for some other use? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpoo

Re: Request for packaging two simple tools: disk-filltest and digup

2020-01-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
e, that's not two lines, but it is a sensible (at least for me) compromise between flexibility (allow the downstream packagers to easily modify the flags) and policy (add a couple of flags in 99% of the builds, unless the downstream packager or the user doing a manual build has explicitly specifi

Re: RFP: lintian-sort -- reproducibly sort the Lintian tool's output

2019-12-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
g/remembering! You were indeed quite right to close both. Keep up the great work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dput problem: Ancient sha256sum?

2019-08-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
992b134b4c89c7b0da5d2f9e141d03ffe29ff76729c4a4975 > > > > Please, rebuild your package against the correct file. > > > > Please try to fix it and re-upload. Thanks, > > > > -- mentors.debian.net > > (The sha256sum in the .dsc file is correct, btw.) -- Peter

Re: systemd services that are not equivalent to LSB init scripts

2019-07-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
t trivial to > configure as part of Debian packaging. tcpserver certainly does not, it implements the UCSPI protocol, which is a good one in itself, but it is still a different one. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com PGP key:

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [snip] > > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement. > > > > There's an implementation of this in "git" i

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
iff [roam@straylight ~]$ You're welcome... and thanks for bringing diff-highlight to my attention so that I could whip these up :) Now only to figure out how to get the colors more similar to the ones that Vim uses (I use a ~/bin/vdiff script that pipes stuff through `vim -c 'set ft=diff&

Re: Bug#922353: ITP: socket-activate -- Run a socket-activated daemon with minimal dependencies

2019-02-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
ne else wants to beat me to it, i > > certainly wouldn't complain :) > > I'll probably look into it once I've gone over some of the immediate > stuff I have on my plate, if there's been no patch submitted by then. > :) Here you go :) https://gitlab.com/dkg/soc

Bug#921627: ITP: libperl-prereqscanner-notquitelite-perl -- Perl module for scanning Perl code for prerequisites

2019-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libperl-prereqscanner-notquitelite-perl Version : 0.9904 Upstream Author : Kenichi Ishigaki * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-PrereqScanner-NotQuiteLite * License : Artistic or GPL

Bug#921626: ITP: libregexp-trie-perl -- Perl module for building a trie-ized regular expression

2019-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libregexp-trie-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Dan Kogai * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Regexp-Trie * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Recreating history of a package (was: Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package)

2019-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ns to use the debsnap(1) tool from the devscripts package. (debsnap(1) was one of the tools that I only learned about because of the "dpkg -L devscripts | grep bin/ | shuf -n10" question in the NM templates; many thanks to whoever added this one - and this goes for both the tool and

Re: Switch to DEP-14-ish with an existing "debian" branch

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:38:35PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:34:42PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 14:07, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > So these days I decided that DEP-14[1] actually seems to b

Re: Switch to DEP-14-ish with an existing "debian" branch

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:34:42PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 14:07, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > So these days I decided that DEP-14[1] actually seems to be a Good > > Thing(tm) and I started thinking about switching my packages' Gi

Switch to DEP-14-ish with an existing "debian" branch

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
than "pkg/"? Thanks to the people who came up with the idea of a harmonized layout of Debian packaging repositories and then did the work of writing up the DEP itself! And, yeah, well, does what I'm trying to do feel like de-harmonizing the layout by introducing Yet Another Branch Namin

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
e maintainers of the stack will first package the dependencies, wait for them to migrate to testing, then backport them, and then they will upload the main piece of software first to unstable and then to the new suite under discussion. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debi

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