Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/11/16 at 16:01 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I fear it might be bad, but > I would love to be pleasantly surprised that people did get libpthreads > locking right most of the time... I wonder if it has been considered to "fix" glibc so that the misuses that are tolerated withou

Re: call for participation - Debian contributors survey, 1st ed.

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian
unsubscribe On 07.11.2016 09:07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > TL;DR: all Debian contributors --- from bug reporters to Debian project > members and participants in any Debian team --- are invited to take part > in the first edition of the Debian contributors survey. To participate > visit: > > h

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 09/11/16 04:16, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >> Right. We want auto-removals to be useful for the release process, so that we >> don't end up with a thousand of RC bugs in testing when we freeze, most of >> them >> on packages that nobody c

Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus

2016-11-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:04:28AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > I'm afraid I don't really have a good suggestion. Using current date > would work but obviously break reproducibility, and any other date seems > arbitrary. Why would that break reproducibility? reproducible builds is about reproduc

Bug#843758: ITP: s4cmd -- Super Amazon S3 command line tool

2016-11-09 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: s4cmd Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : BloomReach Inc. * URL : https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd * License : Apache Programming Lang: Python Description : Super Amazon S3 comman

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 at 17:03:45 +1100, Brian May wrote: > Another situation: You are not listed as the maintainer of the package > you really care about, and the real maintainer ignores the autoremoval > notifications. Other people looking at the package bug reports (there > may be none) may not re

Re: Bug#843325: ITP: waf -- Tool for configuring, building, and installing projects

2016-11-09 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Walter Landry, 2016-11-08] > Doing a quick search > > curl -s > https://codesearch.debian.net/results/22044ee2fe5c4350/packages.json | jq -r > '.Packages[]' | wc -l this result is no longer available > > shows 39 packages might also benefit from a central installation of > waf. IMHO there

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > On Tue, 08 Nov 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > The reverse rule is to convert _ and % and delete all #. > > > > Quoted for completeness. > > Ok, can you prepare a patch for DEP-14 then? I'll apply it as it looks like > a reasonable extens

Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
(CCing reproducible-builds again:) Sven Joachim writes ("Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus"): > I'm afraid I don't really have a good suggestion. Using current date > would work but obviously break reproducibility, and any other date seems > arbitrary. I don't understand why using the current

Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus

2016-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 11:16:09 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sven Joachim writes ("Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus"): > > I'm afraid I don't really have a good suggestion. Using current date > > would work but obviously break reproducibility, and any other date seems > > arbitrary. > > I

Bug#843772: ITP: golang-gopkg-alexcesaro-statsd.v1 -- simple and efficient Golang StatsD client

2016-11-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jordi Mallach * Package name: golang-gopkg-alexcesaro-statsd.v1 Version : 0.0~git20160306.0.c289775-1 Upstream Author : Alexandre Cesaro * URL : https://github.com/alexcesaro/statsd * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go

Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Peter Colberg writes ("What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?"): > Improving the package would require significant changes that are not > appropriate for a minimal NMU. With the maintainer not responding to > anything other than MIA requests to retain their maintainer st

Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks to everyone who has provided information. I have summarised it in #843773, against sbuild. What version of sbuild do buildds run ? Ie, supposing that this is fixed in sbuild in stretch, will this be fixed on the buildds ? Or do we need to update jessie, or what ? Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Marvin Renich
* Emilio Pozuelo Monfort [161108 16:01]: > It is true for other removals from testing, which can happen in two different > ways: > > - The package was removed from unstable > - The package was hinted for testing removal by the release team > > Since britney doesn't enforce (atm) that build-depe

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Marvin Renich writes ("Re: More 5 november in the release schedule"): > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort [161108 16:01]: > > It is true for other removals from testing, which can happen in two > > different ways: > > > > - The package was removed from unstable > > - The package was hinted for testing remo

Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?

2016-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:12:43PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > The advice from Emilio to upload your proposed big changes to > DELAYED/10 is probably good. agreed. > In theory you should ask the Technical Committee to depose the > maintainer. I disagree here. I think the next/first step should

Bug#843799: ITP: dcm2niix -- next generation DICOM to NIfTI converter

2016-11-09 Thread Ghislain Antony Vaillant
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant * Package name: dcm2niix Version : 1.0.20161101 Upstream Author : Chris Rorden * URL : https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : next genera

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:01:13 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > If it turns out to be a more common problem and there are many > packages affected, then this would mean delays to the stretch release, > indeed. But it would also highlight where the real problem is - ie, > not with the maintenance of the

Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?

2016-11-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 03:51:12PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:12:43PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > In theory you should ask the Technical Committee to depose the > > maintainer. > > I disagree here. I think the next/first step should be contacting the > MIA team and

Bug#843807: ITP: golang-github-mreiferson-go-httpclient -- Go HTTP client with timeouts

2016-11-09 Thread Dr. Tobias Quathamer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" * Package name: golang-github-mreiferson-go-httpclient Version : 0.0~git20160630.0.31f0106-1 Upstream Author : Matt Reiferson * URL : https://github.com/mreiferson/go-httpclient * License : Expat

Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:45:43PM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >... > Also, a personal pledge to everybody who's reading this: please don't > attach yourself to your packages like mussels on a rock. If you realize > (or somebody else is making you realize) that you're doing a bad job on > a packa

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:16:36AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > > Right. We want auto-removals to be useful for the release process, so that > > we > > don't end up with a thousand of RC bugs in testing when we freeze, most of > > th

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:16:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Forced reboot on upgrade is damage. Let's learn from errors of others. > > needrestart has a mechanism (needrestart-session) to hook into user > sessions, perhaps that could be

Re: NRSS has been deprecated [#696302]

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:58:53PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 06:55:33PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 06:28:41AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > A maintainer would then file "ITR: dasher" and wait for responses before > > > requesting RM. > > >

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > Ok, can you prepare a patch for DEP-14 then? I'll apply it as it looks like > a reasonable extension. Attached. FYI I intend to implement this in dgit. Thanks, Ian. >From 5c63400e9be8cb1532515764a1179730aed550fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 200

Re: client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 12:03:03AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-11-05 22:23, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The solution you are trying to sell is apt-transport-https as default. > [...] > > Your solution would be a lot of work with relatively little improvement. > > Well, the client-side exists a

Re: NRSS has been deprecated [#696302]

2016-11-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:24:37PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 08:58:53PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 06:55:33PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 06:28:41AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > A maintainer would then file "I

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 09.11.2016 [21:27:14 +], Ian Jackson wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > > Ok, can you prepare a patch for DEP-14 then? I'll apply it as it looks like > > a reasonable extension. > > Attached. FYI I intend to implement this in dgit. Thank you! We will foll

Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?

2016-11-09 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2016-11-09 16:45:43) > Also, a personal pledge to everybody who's reading this: please don't attach > yourself to your packages like mussels on a rock. on that topic, I am warmly recommending Enrico Zini's "semi serious stand up comedy notes": Compersion, n: the feelin

Bug#843825: ITP: golang-github-ctdk-chefcrypto -- Go cryptographic routines to interact with chef servers

2016-11-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jordi Mallach * Package name: golang-github-ctdk-chefcrypto Version : 0.0~git20161109.0.dea96d7-1 Upstream Author : Jeremy Bingham * URL : https://github.com/ctdk/chefcrypto * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > 30 days within the deep freeze should be plenty enough - and as I > said: if the problem is more complicated, just talk to the release > team _while the package is still in testing_. Let's say I'm on holiday (or I get hit by a bus

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Nish Aravamudan writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > Thank you! We will follow the same in the Ubuntu tooling used by the Server > Team. Great, thanks. Can I ask you a rather unrelated question ? AIUI you are working on importing Ubuntu's history into git. That's great. Can you confirm

Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus

2016-11-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:41:09PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Is this a recommended recipe ? AIUI a buildd doing a binnmu will not > modify the debian/changelog file. Are you sure? When last I checked, this was not true (it may have changed since, however). -- < ron> I mean, the main *practica

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
gregor herrmann writes ("Re: More 5 november in the release schedule"): > I don't quite understand where all this fuzz about auto-removals > suddenly comes from. The auto-removals exist since Septemer 2013 [0] > and they were also in place for the jessie freeze [1], with the small > difference that

Re: NRSS has been deprecated [#696302]

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Re: NRSS has been deprecated [#696302]"): > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:24:37PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > What you are suggesting is a proper process for handling all source > > removals, instead of the current practice where the maintainer can > > just submit an "RM: das

Bug#843827: ITP: golang-github-ctdk-go-trie -- Trie implementation based on a minimal automaton for Go

2016-11-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jordi Mallach * Package name: golang-github-ctdk-go-trie Version : 0.0~git20161027.0.6443fbc-1 Upstream Author : Jeremy Bingham * URL : https://github.com/ctdk/go-trie * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 09.11.2016 [23:38:30 +], Ian Jackson wrote: > Nish Aravamudan writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > > Thank you! We will follow the same in the Ubuntu tooling used by the Server > > Team. > > Great, thanks. > > Can I ask you a rather unrelated question ? AIUI you are working on > im

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Nish Aravamudan writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > On 09.11.2016 [23:38:30 +], Ian Jackson wrote: > > Can you confirm what approach you have taken to the representation of > > Debian source packges as git trees ? I would like to encourage you to > > use a representation which is compa

Bug#843830: ITP: golang-github-raintank-met -- an opinionated wrapper around metric client libraries

2016-11-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jordi Mallach * Package name: golang-github-raintank-met Version : 0.0~git20161103.0.05a94bb-1 Upstream Author : raintank * URL : https://github.com/raintank/met * License : TODO Programming Lang: Go Description :

Re: DEP14 policy for two dots

2016-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
I forgot one: Ian Jackson writes ("Re: DEP14 policy for two dots"): > A patches-unapplied tree: > > * produces confusing and sometimes misleading output from >git grep, or (even if appropriate history is available) >with git blame; > > * cannot be used with `git cherry pick '; > > *

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 23:06 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Any "solution" for the reboot problem that assumes that there is a > user who regularly logs into the machine misses the problem. Any solution that is the same for every device is completely wrong. Cloud images should probably auto-reboot A

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 22:55 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Is anyone tracking what packages are installed from backports on > Debian machines, and the CVEs in them? backports is unsupported by the security team, so DSA & backports users rely on service maintainers and backporters to do the right thi

Re: misleading timestamps in binnmus

2016-11-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Jackson (2016-11-09): > What version of sbuild do buildds run ? Ie, supposing that this is > fixed in sbuild in stretch, will this be fixed on the buildds ? Or do > we need to update jessie, or what ? sbuild on buildds uses a specific version of sbuild, for reasons I'm not going to summariz

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread James McCoy
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:24:20AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > 30 days within the deep freeze should be plenty enough - and as I > > said: if the problem is more complicated, just talk to the release > > team _while the packa

Re: Bug#843325: ITP: waf -- Tool for configuring, building, and installing projects

2016-11-09 Thread Walter Landry
Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Walter Landry, 2016-11-08] >> Doing a quick search >> >> curl -s >> https://codesearch.debian.net/results/22044ee2fe5c4350/packages.json | jq -r >> '.Packages[]' | wc -l > > this result is no longer available Oh bother. I did a slightly more sophisticated search a

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Ian Jackson wrote... > I think what is really worrying people is the fear that they might > miss something, for good reasons, and then find that their work that > they care about is thrown out of stretch. > > It is difficult to address this fear with logical arguments intended > to demonstrate tha

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Wouter Verhelst: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >> 30 days within the deep freeze should be plenty enough - and as I >> said: if the problem is more complicated, just talk to the release >> team _while the package is still in testing_. > > Let's say I'm on holi

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Ole Streicher
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >> 30 days within the deep freeze should be plenty enough - and as I >> said: if the problem is more complicated, just talk to the release >> team _while the package is still in testing_. > > Let's say I'm