Re: 64-bit time_t transition: cargo needs manual intervention

2024-03-12 Thread Steven Robbins
On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 1:24:25 A.M. CDT Steve Langasek wrote: > The quickest fix for this based on what we've done in Ubuntu is: > > - unpack cargo and libstd-rust debs to the root via dpkg-deb -x > - use equivs to mock up packages by these names with no dependencies and > install those > -

Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?

2024-03-14 Thread Steven Robbins
According to the "action needed" section for nifticlib [1], it is: Marked for autoremoval on 31 March: #1063178 But that bug is fixed for the version in unstable. Why does that cause the package to be removed? [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nifticlib Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Descrip

what's up with python3.11 on arm?

2024-03-16 Thread Steven Robbins
This recent transition has really illuminated how little I know of the dark corners of Debian infrastructure... Some packages (e.g. libcdk5/experimental) aren't buildable on the armel/armhf because the build-deps don't install, and in particular: The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Re: Re: time_t progress report

2024-03-23 Thread Steven Robbins
Wondering about the current state of this transition. Is there a tracker of any kind for this? Or would someone be willing to post an email here periodically? Weekly maybe? I looked at the release goals wiki and at the "brain dump" page but failed to find anything dated more precisely than "

Why doesn't nifticlib migrate?

2020-12-20 Thread Steven Robbins
The excuses page says it is good to go, but it hasn't migrated despite being 7 days past the required 5 days. What's up? Excuse for nifticlib Migration status for nifticlib (2.0.0+git186-g84740c2-1 to 3.0.1-4): Will attempt migration (Any information below is purely informational) Additional i

How to do 32-bit build in AMD64 chroot -- problem with SSE instructions?

2021-12-11 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, I've built the ITK package on my AMD64 machine without trouble, but the 32-bit build is failing with the error below. The errors seem to point to using SSE instructions. Is there a recommended set of flags to use when building for x86? I tried "-march=i686" but it gives the same error.

Re: Re: How to do 32-bit build in AMD64 chroot -- problem with SSE instructions?

2021-12-12 Thread Steven Robbins
Thank you Andrey! > For example, in this case it's not about compilation flags because the > relevant code uses SSE2 explictly when USE_SSE2_32IMPL is set. I haven't > checked how is it set but the configure step output suggests it checks the > hardware support on the build machine, which must not

Re: Re: Re: How to do 32-bit build in AMD64 chroot -- problem with SSE instructions?

2021-12-13 Thread Steven Robbins
Thanks for the pointer to https://wiki.debian.org/ ArchitectureSpecificsMemo#Architecture_baselines. I read there that "Each Debian architecture has a baseline indicating the oldest or least capable CPU on which the architecture can be used. The baseline can change between Debian releases. The b

Re: Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it

2022-04-23 Thread Steven Robbins
Luca Boccassi wrote: > Personally, I'd even go for option 4, so that other drivers are covered > too (the general advice that can be found on the internet for users > with nvidia hardware seems to be: "avoid Debian, go Ubuntu/Mint/etc", > which is just a sad state of affairs). But option 5 is alre

Is there a mip64el machine available for debugging?

2022-08-21 Thread Steven Robbins
The list at https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi suggests all available machines are "buildd" and restricted. I need to debug a build problem that appears only on mips64el. And only since the new glibc. Is there any known issues with the new glibc on mips64el? Thanks, -Steve signature.asc D

Suggestion for db.debian.org/machines.cgi page

2022-08-22 Thread Steven Robbins
On Monday, August 22, 2022 1:29:13 A.M. CDT Nilesh Patra wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 08:08:30AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > > On 8/22/22 07:15, Steve Robbins wrote: > > > Oh. I did use Eller -- but the architecture is listed as mipsel. I need > > > mips64el> > > eller has mips64el

How to debug mips64el buildd failure unreproducible on porterbox?

2022-08-22 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, After the recent spate of rebuilds for the new glibc, I had a couple packages fail in their respective post-build test suite. For one package, the buildd failure went away after a rebuild. The second package, libminc, however failed on the buildd as recently as yesterday. https://buildd.

Need a buildd build after trip through NEW -- best practice?

2022-08-23 Thread Steven Robbins
Commonly, I update a package that provides a shared library. Due to the package naming convention, a new SOVERSION necessitates a trip through NEW, which in turn means a binary upload. The binary upload cannot transition to testing -- a buildd binary build is required. So far as I know -- ass

Re: Need a buildd build after trip through NEW -- best practice?

2022-08-28 Thread Steven Robbins
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 6:56:32 P.M. CDT Nilesh Patra wrote: > On 24 August 2022 3:29:10 am IST, Steven Robbins wrote: > >The binary upload cannot transition to testing -- a buildd binary build is > >required. So far as I know -- assuming [1] is still up-to-date, this mean

Re: Re: Need a buildd build after trip through NEW -- best practice?

2022-09-01 Thread Steven Robbins
Paul Said: > On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 17:54 -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: > > Specficially: in the case of a NEW binary upload, could a manual request > > be > > implemented (pick a different name if "give back" is not suitable) such > > that it is thrown away an

Half the world being removed

2022-09-01 Thread Steven Robbins
Suddenly half the packages are marked AUTOREMOVE; many due to gcc-12 and zlib. The related two bugs are months-old. Why are things suddenly being removed?? Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug email is not getting to me

2022-09-25 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, When I first started with Debian many many years ago, I would routinely see email for bug reports submitted against packages I maintain, and responses to said bugs. Nowadays I get essentially none of that. The only way I see such responses is by perusing bugs via the web interface -- whic

Re: Bug email is not getting to me

2022-09-25 Thread Steven Robbins
On Sunday, September 25, 2022 3:49:37 P.M. CDT Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: > > I just noticed today that this applies even to responses that apparently > > directly CC my debian address; e.g. https://bugs.deb

Re: Bug email is not getting to me

2022-09-25 Thread Steven Robbins
Thanks to all who responded. I have learned a lot! On Sunday, September 25, 2022 4:57:19 P.M. CDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Steven Robbins writes: > > To re-iterate: mail sent today to my debian address from outside debian > > came through OK. Mail sent from bugs.debian.org appa

Un-plug/re-plug second monitor messes up video config (regression)

2022-10-20 Thread Steven Robbins
Hello, I have two monitors connected to my linux desktop. One of them is sitting on an HDMI switch as it is shared with a laptop. For months, this worked just fine: when I switched the monitor to the laptop, linux would notice that only one monitor was connected and adjust; when I later switc

Bug email to Maintainer, not Uploader?

2020-02-22 Thread Steven Robbins
I'm not receiving messages concerning bugs for most of the packages I maintain. Most of my packages are team-maintained, so my email appears only as the Uploader, not the Maintainer. I am beginning to suspect this is the cause of missing emails. Is it? Is there a global method to inform bts

Re: Bug email to Maintainer, not Uploader?

2020-02-22 Thread Steven Robbins
On Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:15:28 A.M. CST Steven Robbins wrote: > I'm not receiving messages concerning bugs for most of the packages I > maintain. Most of my packages are team-maintained, so my email appears only > as the Uploader, not the Maintainer. I am beginning to s

Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream (Was: edtsurf_0.2009-7_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-09-16 Thread Steven Robbins
On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 11:18:28 P.M. CDT Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:00:45PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > On 14-09-2020 21:04, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > In the case of larger data sets it seems to be natural to provide the > > > data in a separate binar

Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream (Was: edtsurf_0.2009-7_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-09-17 Thread Steven Robbins
On Thursday, September 17, 2020 3:07:23 P.M. CDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 9/16/20 2:55 PM, Steven Robbins wrote: > > Since you're soliciting opinions, here's mine. In the absence of a > > documented consensus, ftpmaster should respect the packager's judgement >

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-06-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
7;s a very popular OS around here, apart from this problem!). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-06-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
y, it would be nice if the latest packages were fetched (rather installing old ones from the install media, and upgrading in a later step). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
portant to me, if Debian GNU/Linux (and Ubuntu, Fedora etc.) no longer worked on them. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Steven Shiau
Hi Daniel, I am really sorry to hear this. Back to 2007 we were happy to find Debian live so that we could create Clonezilla live easily in these years. It's really sad to see this happening. Thanks for all your efforts and thanks to all the Debian-live project members. Best regards, S

Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
p7.0/7.0.1-1/ext/standard/random.c/?hl=96#L95 * libsodium too: https://sources.debian.net/src/libsodium/1.0.3-1/src/libsodium/randombytes/sysrandom/randombytes_sysrandom.c/?hl=52#L267 * openssl uses the strong arc4random on OpenBSD, otherwise falls back to something that has been... problema

Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
esktop environments, tasks, or OpenJDK for example. Having a stable set of build-essential packages is important for ports to get DSA-administered buildds, for developers to be able to run it, and for the port to progress further. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ing releases basically; 3. or make it easier somehow for ports to become release arches? where I think the latter, stable releases, are mandatory to ever have DSA-administered buildds, which in turn is a requirement for getting into the official release. > But it appears like Steven mea

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ckages is a requirement for the port to be releaseable. I think the architecture release criteria is really lacking that kind of detail to judge ports by. But now, we have a quite good definition of what are 'core' packages of each port, from the rebootstrapping work. Regards, -- S

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > [...] when unstable is out of sync, and should be forbidden for a set > > of core packages from my point of view. > > [...] We could say that fixing RC bugs in > those packages is a requirement for the port to be relea

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ge built in the past, and is "out-of-date" in sid. Otherwise it's not a release-critical issue, not blocking testing migration). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
if porters are made very aware of the problems and their implications. I'd like the release team to have a detailed list of those issues to base their arch qualification on. I envisage some kind of a scoreboard, graphs, or those weather symbols we all love to see. Regards, -- Steven Chambe

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I envisage some kind of a scoreboard, graphs, or those weather symbols > we all love to see. As far as the dashboard goes, I've started out with: https://kfreebsd.eu/dashboards/ports/ I want to add pages per-arch that list the packages that FTBFS, o

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
re promimently than a sid-only, RC-buggy leaf package with an RM bug filed for it. THat's why I'm trying to design a better dashboard for porters, though some ideas could be implemented into buildd.d.o itself someday. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
package build or CI tests could help here. Or, packages build accidentally, then a later version FTBFS. That's why I thought of auto-removals, but if porters more actively removed those I think it would be helpful. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
le, this Geode MX is not quite 686-class but has CMOV: | cpu0: Geode(TM) IntegraTed Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC" 586-class) 333 MHz | cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,PGE,CMOV,MMX,MMXX,3DNOW2,3DNOW Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I seem to remember last time this was discussed, GNU `as' avoids using a > particular 686-class instruction I found a reference for that: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00617.html So it seems the "nearly 686" Geode LX/NX may

Is ftp.upload.debian.org not working?

2024-10-31 Thread Steven Robbins
I pushed an update ("dput digikam_8.4.0-4_source.changes") ten hours ago to ftp.upload.debian.org and dput reported success. But there has been no email acknowledgement nor change to the archive that I can spot. Is everything working? -Steve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-25 Thread Steven Robbins
I've come to realise the ITK build has 15 libraries that lintian flags with error library-not-linked-against-libc. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/library-not-linked-against-libc.html[1] The error description seems straightforward. But how does one solve this? I have to assume that the lin

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-25 Thread Steven Robbins
On Saturday, January 25, 2025 10:57:26 P.M. CST you wrote: > I've come to realise the ITK build has 15 libraries that lintian flags with > error library-not-linked-against-libc. Someone suggested to run ldd -r. Okay, so what does this tell me? $ ldd -r /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libITKColormap-5.4.so

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

2025-04-20 Thread Steven Robbins
On Sunday, April 20, 2025 7:50:07 p.m. Central Daylight Saving Time Steven Robbins wrote: > I am able to reproduce it thanks to NoisyCoil's hint about > --aspcud-criteria. I'm working on a fix now. Okay, I don't know how to solve this. The package is uploaded now for uns

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

2025-04-20 Thread Steven Robbins
On Sunday, April 20, 2025 12:18:28 p.m. Central Daylight Saving Time Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to reproduce the test failure visible at > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=insighttoolkit5&arch=amd64&ve > r=5.4.3-2&stamp=1745014062&raw=0 in a local build myself, s

Troubleshooting experimental build - how to replicate the sbuild?

2025-04-19 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, I recently uploaded a package to experimental and was suprised at the build failures [1]. I have built it locally and on a porter box without issue -- each time using a clean unstable chroot. [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php? pkg=insighttoolkit5&arch=amd64&ver=5.4.3-2&stamp=1

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

2025-04-22 Thread Steven Robbins
On Monday, April 21, 2025 2:46:27 a.m. Central Daylight Saving Time Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > I also can't figure out how to examine the chroot after a failure: > > using "-- > > purge=successful" doesn't work with unshare. > > I usually use --anything-failed-commands=%s which

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-20 Thread Steven Bruce Dunham
Rob Browning wrote: > > I had posted earlier about a problem getting Debian 1.2/1.3 installed > on a 365x thinkpad. Several solutions were offered and in the end it > turned out that the people claiming that some thinkpads could not > handle the bzImage format were correct. It was not the > "flo

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-23 Thread Steven Bruce Dunham
Bruce Perens wrote: > > From: Erv Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, i had trouble booting a toshiba tecra with bzImages except via > > loadlin. The solution was to use a simple zImage instead of the > > bzImage. Now, lilo, syslinux, etc all work. > > I'd rather fix the software bug that prev

Bug#304271: ITP: lighttpd -- a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server

2005-04-11 Thread Steven R. Baker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steven R. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lighttpd Version : 1.3.13 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.lighttpd.net/ * License : MIT/X Description : a secure, fas

Bug#591817: ITP: rubinius -- Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.

2010-08-05 Thread Steven R. Baker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steven R. Baker" * Package name: rubinius Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Evan Phoenix * URL : http://www.rubini.us/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++, Ruby Description : Rubinius is an impleme

Reality check.

2014-10-12 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:09:10PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Adam Borowski: > > > The only acceptable concrete value for 'extremely few' is Zero. > > > > I'd say losing patience is quite understandable in this case > > Probably. However, the context of this thread was not at all about a >

Follow-up

1999-01-20 Thread fantumn \(Steven Baker\)
Further versions of this proposal will be posted on the WWW, and the address of such revisions will be posted to both -devel and -dpkg.

Dpkg Update Proposal

1999-01-20 Thread fantumn \(Steven Baker\)
Okay, I posted to -devel a few weeks back with a proposal for an update to dpkg. This message is being Cc'd to -devel, and sent to -dpkg. Basically, attached is my proposal (it's long, I'm trimming it down in another rxvt, but, I wanted to get something out for the firing sqaud). Please read it

More notes on Dpkg proposal

1999-01-21 Thread fantumn \(Steven Baker\)
Okay, after discussing this with a few people on #debian, and going over email, it seems that a) I am not qualified nor familiar with dpkg internals enough to do a project such as this, and did not realize it at first and b) too much of dpkg would have to be severly hacked and re-written. So, if

Re: Open Letter to Debian election candidates about Debian vendettas

2022-03-19 Thread Steven R. Baker
I have clicked unsubscribe many times. Daniel, you are a deeply disturbed human being. Please stop sending me emails. I hope you find the help you need. Skickat från min iPhone > 19 mars 2022 kl. 18:28 skrev Daniel Pocock : > >  > Felix, Hideki, Jonathan, > > The message was sent to you all

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