Re: Why Debian is dying

2025-04-11 Thread Ian Jackson
the DPL being prepared to do more than just mediate. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Re: Why Debian is dying

2025-04-10 Thread Ian Jackson
t it seemed (and still seems) quite clear that the DPL was choosing not to intervene, rather than that they believed their help wasn't required. Ian. [1] I think quoting from that mail would be quite unhelpful at this stage. We seem like we may be making progress and I don't want to unnece

Re: a Constitutional interpretation question

2025-04-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Gerardo Ballabio writes ("Re: a Constitutional interpretation question"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm not sure this cleanup is a useful use of our time. > > There are more fundamental problems. > > We've just been having a several-dozen-messages-long threa

Re: a Constitutional interpretation question (was: Why Debian is dying)

2025-04-09 Thread Ian Jackson
G. Branden Robinson writes ("Re: a Constitutional interpretation question (was: Why Debian is dying)"): > At 2025-04-09T14:21:56+0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > In practice, I radically underestimated the willingness of more > > neurotypical people to perform the

Re: a Constitutional interpretation question (was: Why Debian is dying)

2025-04-09 Thread Ian Jackson
at some point as a way to add non-normative explanatory text. See Appendix B. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
cts. That these kind of things are being said by multiple people is no excuse. Indeed, it makes the situation worse. People are entitled to disagree with us about timescales, but hyperbolic accusations like "immediately" are unacceptable. Please help. Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#1102125: debian-keyring: Please add tag2upload oracle service key

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
nk we'll do better in practice because this key changes less.) Perhaps we should consider if we want to extend the validity period on the key, as published in this new .deb, before the trixie release. But ISTM that key lifetime extension could be done via stable updates (and even via LTS) but w

Bug#1102125: debian-keyring: Please add tag2upload oracle service key

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
for example, there is no reason for dak to accept binaries signed by tag2upload, so in a perfect world, it wouldl not. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Re: on continuing to wait

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
| 71 +- tools/logs.py| 73 +- tools/queue_rss.py | 132 +- tools/rm822.py | 52 +- 211 files changed, 13672 insertions(+), 7575 deletions(-) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions ar

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Micha Lenk writes ("Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation"): > Am 7. April 2025 16:17:27 GMT+05:30 schrieb Ian Jackson > : > >But I have my doubts that Debian Developers will find the technical > >wording of the draft GR digestible

Bug#1102125: debian-keyring: Please add tag2upload oracle service key

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan McDowell writes ("Re: Bug#1102125: debian-keyring: Please add tag2upload oracle service key"): > I think you want your own keyring package then, much like the archive > keyring (debian-archive-keyring). OK. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation"): > We need to make an exceptional, short term delegation authorising > the installation of tag2upload's signing key on ftp-master. I have been thinking about this. I still think th

Bug#1102125: debian-keyring: Please add tag2upload oracle service key

2025-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
lishing the fingerprint of the tag2upload key (presumably also in debian-keyring.deb) and teaching all the software to check it. Those options seem considerably worse than a keyring specifically for this key. Ian. [1] Ultimately, modulo some wrinkles, everything that verifies signatures on source

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-06 Thread Ian Jackson
you need. Especially, they radically reduce the amount you need to learn before you can even get started. I blogged about this here, addressing downstream users: https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/17579.html Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-06 Thread Ian Jackson
hat Sean and I designed, not some in our view far inferior counterproposal from ftpmaster; see [5]) Ian. [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/08/msg00521.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2024/06/msg8.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2024/07/msg00024.html

Bug#1102202: debian-nonupload sbould be treated by gideon as -maintainers

2025-04-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Sean informs me that non-uploading DDs can be Debian Maintainers, with authority to upload specific packages, listed in dm.txt. So gideon should look at that keyring too. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-06 Thread Ian Jackson
tion being that they don't want tag2upload - the team having failed to deliver on its promises - a complete lack of communication from that team If that's not sufficient justification for DPL action then there can surely be *no* circumstance in which a DPL will ever act. Ian. -- Ian J

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-06 Thread Ian Jackson
ke this: I want to give a talk at Debconf in Brest about tag2upload. I don't want to have to spend any of that talk explaining why it still isn't deployed yet. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, th

Re: Question to all candidates: the FTP Team

2025-04-06 Thread Ian Jackson
nt situation to persist, as you have allowed it to persist. We see this same fear play out in other areas. We have important packages maintained by toxic people, whom no-one will get rid of for fear of leaving an unfillable gap. This attitude is a trap. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own

Bug#1102125: debian-keyring: Please add tag2upload oracle service key

2025-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
question...) I hope this helps explain things. Thanks, Ian. [1] Perhaps .changes files are published somewhere but if so I don't know where. They don't seem to be on archive mirrors. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net

Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

2025-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
y here, but even so we could and should do a lot better. (I obviously approve of an upstream-first mindset, but it falls down when upstream isn't working well.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
e NEW > queue has gotten shorter (which is great), imho that should really get > priority over new implementations so that DDs and other contributors can > get a chance to finish their goals for the Trixie release. This shouldn't affect NEW processing, because: only one ftpmaste

Bug#1101580: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/dgit: server-side crash during dgit push-source)

2025-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
I checked on browse.dgit.d.o and the tags *had* been pushed and the main branch looked up to date. I found that there was a ../bpd/dgit_12.10_source.changes so I dput it. I also did a dgit-test-dummy upload which worked. I think maybe there is a server-side race :-/. Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation [and 1 more messages]

2025-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation [and 1 more messages]"): > We will prepare an MR AFAICT MRs are not enabled for the keyring repo (which is fine) so I used the BTS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1102125 I

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation [and 1 more messages]

2025-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
course that is up to the ftpmasters. We will prepare an MR, with more details about the key's provenance etc. in the MR discussion comment. If ftpmaster have an opinion about this aspect, I think it would be OK to ask them to make it known there. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinio

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-04 Thread Ian Jackson
be done is as described in the proposal at the head of this thread. If we're to be asked to do it, we should be entitled to do it our way. Anyway, for obvious sociopolitical reasons our agreement last year wasn't predicated on us submitting MRs to dak. Ian. -- Ian JacksonTh

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation [and 1 more messages]

2025-04-04 Thread Ian Jackson
ding it in the official debian keyring package, we get some > historic accountability of which keys were used. You also get a way > to phase in new keys and phase out old keys. keyring-maint, would you welcome an MR for this? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: t

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan Carter writes ("Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation"): > On 2025/04/04 11:08, Ian Jackson wrote: > > ftpmaster don't want to see tag2upload in use, and so they are > > choosing not to respond to our requests to install the

Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-04 Thread Ian Jackson
G. Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation"): > Just to clarify, I do believe the Gregorian year is now 2025. lol. Yes. All dates there were supposed to be 2025. I copied them by eye, so that introduced the error. Ian. --

Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation

2025-04-04 Thread Ian Jackson
where we started. More generally, it is not the tag2upload developers' job to project-manage ftpmaster's implementation work. Ian for the tag2upload Delegates -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1101690: dgit: tests: tag2upload-oracled process leak, external lossage [and 1 more messages]

2025-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("dgit: tests: tag2upload-oracled process leak, external lossage"): ... > I ran ps -Hfuian | grep tag2 and found only this and my emacs: > > ian 25301 1 0 Mar22 pts/198 00:03:49 /usr/bin/perl > /home/ian/things/Dgit/dgit/infra/tag2upload-or

Bug#1090763: dgit: [INTL:nl] Dutch translation for the dgit manual page

2025-03-28 Thread Ian Jackson
e. I think this filename is wrong, and should read `po4a/dgit-user_7.nl.po`, since that file exists, and the file you have provided does seem like an update to it. Please let me know if that's not right. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I

Bug#1099741: dgit: does not work out of the box with the rosettasciio repository

2025-03-28 Thread Ian Jackson
archive has crlf line endings. I conjecture that this tune > gbp import-orig --uscan failed to defuse the gitattributes before doing the tarball import. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1077171: gitlab CI isn't useable

2025-03-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: retitle -1 gitlab CI pipeline isn't ideal -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1092800: git-buildpackage: gbp clone: do not defuse gitattributes by default

2025-03-25 Thread Ian Jackson
BTW more background to this design decision in the context of dgit can be found in this bug against src:dgit https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079434 -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is

Bug#1092800: #1092800: git-buildpackage: gbp clone: do not defuse gitattributes by default

2025-03-24 Thread Ian Jackson
r the technical discussion; probably a bug against src:dgit, not against gbp. But in any case it should be conducteed in a collaborative way.) Now, I am going to try to focus on the technical aspects. > On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:40:27 + Ian Jackson > wrote: .. > > This isn't

Bug#1101102: dgit push ought not to reverify signatures during dput

2025-03-23 Thread Ian Jackson
dd -u only if the dput command =~ m/dput/ (but we'd need the user to be able to override it with --dput!:--unchecked and that is goign to be fiddly). Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a

Re: VCS (Was: Questions for all candidates)

2025-03-19 Thread Ian Jackson
. You can forget whatever upload runes you have in your shell history. On this "plug" topic, just earlier today, a happy user wrote to us: | Btw, I wish I had looked at dgit earlier, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from

Re: Q to nominees: Rough plan on Debian/Ubuntu collaboration?

2025-03-19 Thread Ian Jackson
rebase-like dev experience.) When I and Joey Hess and others invented dgit in Vaumarcus in 2013 we assumed it would be impossible to persuade everyone to adopt a uniform git tree/branch format, and we thought that central services would be very difficult, especially if they needed to interact with f

Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request <=bookworm r-r-r behaviour

2025-03-07 Thread Ian Jackson
*just the default* would suffice. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request <=bookworm r-r-r behaviour

2025-03-07 Thread Ian Jackson
*just the default* would suffice. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1099585: Package is not useable without derive-deftly facade

2025-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: rust-derive-deftly-macros Severity: serious Version: 1.0.0-1 rust-derive-deftly didn't make it through NEW. I will be replacing this package one way or another. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.o

Bug#1099585: Package is not useable without derive-deftly facade

2025-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: rust-derive-deftly-macros Severity: serious Version: 1.0.0-1 rust-derive-deftly didn't make it through NEW. I will be replacing this package one way or another. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.o

Bug#1099519: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/dgit: dgit-nmu-simple should be less pessimistic about rebasing)

2025-03-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Specifically, in the usual case, git-rebase -i dgit/dgit/sid is a good choice. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1099097: start-stop-daemon should unbuffer its stdout/stderr

2025-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
usm... Waiting for notifications... (timeout 5sec 0nsec) Detaching complete... Child sent some notification... -> Notification => ready for service. tag2upload-manager@tag2upload-manager-01:/srv/manager.tag2upload.debian.org$ Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pron

Bug#1099097: start-stop-daemon should unbuffer its stdout/stderr

2025-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
usm... Waiting for notifications... (timeout 5sec 0nsec) Detaching complete... Child sent some notification... -> Notification => ready for service. tag2upload-manager@tag2upload-manager-01:/srv/manager.tag2upload.debian.org$ Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pron

Bug#1092800: #1092800: git-buildpackage: gbp clone: do not defuse gitattributes by default

2025-02-25 Thread Ian Jackson
easons as dgit does: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/dgit/dgit.7.en.html#GITATTRIBUTES When gitattributes are active, the git view will not be compatible with tag2upload. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.

Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields

2025-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
ay from gnupg, but I don't want to get hung up on this, here.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields

2025-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
ay from gnupg, but I don't want to get hung up on this, here.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields

2025-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
nformation in the header? I think that depends on the use case. Eg, you might carry on without the relevant information. Whether that's acceptable depends on the semantic needs of the consumer. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from

Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields

2025-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
nformation in the header? I think that depends on the use case. Eg, you might carry on without the relevant information. Whether that's acceptable depends on the semantic needs of the consumer. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from

Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields

2025-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
pace-separate keyword=value items may be introduced in the future. Users of this field must ignore unknown keywords. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1091868: debian-policy: Document Git-Tag-Tagger and Git-Tag-Info fields

2025-02-20 Thread Ian Jackson
pace-separate keyword=value items may be introduced in the future. Users of this field must ignore unknown keywords. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1098352: autopkgtest-build-podman(1): Documentation on rebuilding images & pruning image store

2025-02-19 Thread Ian Jackson
hers. If you think that's a good idea, then we should reassign this bug to src:podman, to represent the desire to make that change there. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1098352: #1098352: autopkgtest-build-podman(1): Documentation on rebuilding images & pruning image store

2025-02-19 Thread Ian Jackson
image. Those concurrent uses should not be disturbed. Likewise, the cleanup operation ought not to disturb in-progress uses, but that'll be easier since hopefully there's an operation that will only want to delete "old and unused" things. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#1096078: dgit: paramiko exception during upload with @cert-authority in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

2025-02-16 Thread Ian Jackson
essful command is being run in a different directory. dgit will show its chdirs if you say -D, but I believe that it runs the dput from the package working tree. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1092602: psutils: Bring version 3.x to unstable

2025-02-15 Thread Ian Jackson
) Would you like to take over the package? If so, please go ahead. I feel you have more understanding of it now. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#868576: adt-virt-null fails to exit on stdin EOF

2025-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
ven find my own previous report the 2nd time round... Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2025-02-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot"): ... > * Decide that virt servers are allowed to not provide $HOME. >Have the autopkgtest virt core check to see if some home directory >exists, and "polyfill" it by using so

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2025-02-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot"): > It turns out that Ian Jackson is an example of someone who specifically > *does* want their real $HOME to be mounted in the chroot, and rejects > the non-schroot backends for exactly this reason.

Bug#1095193: debian policy hook should not hold lock while querying ftpmasterapi

2025-02-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit-infrastructure Version: 10.3 Recently I have seen dgit push being slow on a number of occasions. Output included things like this: remote: gpgv: Good signature from "Ian Jackson (new general purpose key) " remote: gpgv: aka "Ian Jackson " remo

Bug#1074556: autopkgtest: Drop the schroot virt server

2025-02-04 Thread Ian Jackson
de in the testbed that I trust, precisely because often I find the imperfect security isolation convenient. I think this is a common use case for Debian maintainers. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1082668: /usr/bin/blueman-applet: LoadException: Not loading conflicting plugin NMPANSupport

2025-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
fusing and a bit unprincipled. I attach a patch to rationalise it. It may print more warnings now, but it will not crash unless it actually needs to, and the logic is now the same (and, I hope, reasonable) in all cases. Ian. >From 95e85dfbe10deb90dde98101566886ebd50cc410 Mon Sep 17 00

Bug#939310: missing systray icon for blueman-applet

2025-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
. The CHANGELOG.md entry for 2.3 says * Replace AppIndicator with DBus StatusNotifierItem I think this bug may have been fixed as a side effect of that change. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is

Bug#1074556: autopkgtest: Drop the schroot virt server

2025-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
to. (FTR I consider describing someone else's software as deprecated, without consulting them, as intolerably rude and hostile.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1068588: #1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2025-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
d is using it too. I have used it in other more ad-hoc situations. By its nature, there may be out-of-Debian users. I do agree that the code in the autopkgtest test runner is tangled. It was tangled when I wrote it and I think it has become worse since then. I think this is orthogonal to

Bug#1074556: autopkgtest: Drop the schroot virt server

2025-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
ound. FTR, I do not consider this compromise "good". Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1074556: autopkgtest: Drop the schroot virt server

2025-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
(at least IMO) we don't want the new autopkgtest to migrate to testing until the removed parts are available in the new package. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypass

Bug#1074556: autopkgtest: Drop the schroot virt server

2025-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
or schroot. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1074556: autopkgtest: Drop the schroot virt server

2025-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
ing it any time soon. If there were suggestions that it might be removed, I would probably adopt it. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1094634: Info received (autopkgtest-virt-*: doesn't shutdown on EOF [and 1 more messages])

2025-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1094634: Info received (autopkgtest-virt-*: doesn't shutdown on EOF [and 1 more messages])"): > If this is in fact getting EAGAIN it probably indicates that something > was setting stdin to nonblocking mode? The workaround is quite wrong. I conj

Bug#1094635: /usr/bin/autopkgtest-virt-unshare: processes not killed by close

2025-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
kgtest-virt-unshare. I think there is something to be said for this point of view. For now, I'll downgrade this bug report. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1094635: /usr/bin/autopkgtest-virt-unshare: processes not killed by close

2025-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
hink that behaviour would makes sense, perhaps even as a default. After all, the actual chroot is deleted, so any processes which remain have an empty root fs. Leftover processes are possibly broken in other ways too. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I

Bug#1094634: Info received (autopkgtest-virt-*: doesn't shutdown on EOF [and 1 more messages])

2025-01-29 Thread Ian Jackson
upposed to +# block for new input. +if ce == '': +continue since then a delay was added too, and a check for EAGAIN. If this is in fact getting EAGAIN it probably indicates that something was setting stdin to nonblocking mode? The workaround is quite w

Bug#1094634: autopkgtest-virt-*: doesn't shutdown on EOF [and 1 more messages]

2025-01-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: retitle -1 autopkgtest-virt-*: doesn't shutdown on EOF [and 1 more messages] This doesn't seem to be specific to autopkgtest-virt-unshare. Here's another case: Steps autopkgtest-virt-null

Bug#1092906: #1092906: Please incorporate changes from NMUs into next maintainer upload

2025-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
rt-to-gbp" on archive/debian/0.9.10+2024-06-05+gba9ed5b2-0.6 may be helpful. I have not updated any branch on salsa. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reassign -1 libfaketime Control: found -1 0.9.10+2024-06-05+gba9ed5b2-0.1 Control: fixed -1 0.9.10+2024-06-05+gba9ed5b2-0.2 This time, for sure. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reassign -1 faketime Control: found -1 debian/0.9.10+2024-06-05+gba9ed5b2-0.1 Control: fixed -1 debian/0.9.10+2024-06-05+gba9ed5b2-0.2 Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime"): > Control: reassign -1 fakeroot > Control: found -1 debia

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
me. I see that the reprotest autopkgtest is now fixed, after I restored the default to not fake utime. There is still a problem with the gem2deb autopkgtests which looks like UB. I found some UB (#1093599) and am intending to fix it. Thanks for your input! Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opi

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
me. I see that the reprotest autopkgtest is now fixed, after I restored the default to not fake utime. There is still a problem with the gem2deb autopkgtests which looks like UB. I found some UB (#1093599) and am intending to fix it. Thanks for your input! Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opi

Bug#1093599: faketime threads racing in ftpl_init and ft_shm_init

2025-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
t that. I intend to develop a patch to change this to use sound locking techniques and/or atomics. But that will probably not happen right away. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private add

Bug#1093599: faketime threads racing in ftpl_init and ft_shm_init

2025-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
t that. I intend to develop a patch to change this to use sound locking techniques and/or atomics. But that will probably not happen right away. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private add

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime [and 1 more messages]

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime"): > Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here? I UTSL and in reprotest/build.py I see: # faketime's manpages are stupidly misleading; it also modifies file timestamps. # this is only mentioned in

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime [and 1 more messages]

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime"): > Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here? I UTSL and in reprotest/build.py I see: # faketime's manpages are stupidly misleading; it also modifies file timestamps. # this is only mentioned in

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime"): > Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here? > > Maybe the problem is that faketime isn't honouring NO_FAKE_STAT. > I will see if I can confirm... (I should say, thanks for the lead!) -- Ian Ja

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime"): > Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here? > > Maybe the problem is that faketime isn't honouring NO_FAKE_STAT. > I will see if I can confirm... (I should say, thanks for the lead!) -- Ian Ja

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
000 + > $ NO_FAKE_STAT=1 faketime '+331hours' cp -a utils.py utils2.py > $ stat -c '%y' utils2.py > 2023-01-30 08:10:37.0 + Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here? Maybe the problem is that faketime isn't honouring NO_FAKE_STAT. I will

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
000 + > $ NO_FAKE_STAT=1 faketime '+331hours' cp -a utils.py utils2.py > $ stat -c '%y' utils2.py > 2023-01-30 08:10:37.0 + Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here? Maybe the problem is that faketime isn't honouring NO_FAKE_STAT. I will

Bug#1093426: dgit: How to specify a different dgit upload host?

2025-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
lution? If not, would it be possible for > `dgit` to enable an easier way to change the default upload host? I think the (d)git config dgit-distro.distro.upload-host is indeed the answer to this question. Hope this helps. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-18 Thread Ian Jackson
protest's test suite. Probably, some call is being handled differently by the new faketime. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime

2025-01-18 Thread Ian Jackson
protest's test suite. Probably, some call is being handled differently by the new faketime. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypa

Bug#1091390: new upstream version added to Salsa

2025-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: close -1 1.6.1-2 Uploaded, thanks. Sorry for the delay, our house is being chaos for a few weeks - building works after a water leak. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
I think I have a fix. I'm preparing another NMU. It'll be based on latest unreleased upstream git. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
I think I have a fix. I'm preparing another NMU. It'll be based on latest unreleased upstream git. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1093264: faketime breaks date --utc

2025-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
around, `TZ=UTC date` may help (but may change the interpretation of your time specification). Thanks, Ian. (not the maintainer, just trying to fix faketime for the moment) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
the autopkgtest starts passing as > a result. If this bug stays RC and against faketime until fixed that > should prevent unwanted migration. Noted. Thanks. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
the autopkgtest starts passing as > a result. If this bug stays RC and against faketime until fixed that > should prevent unwanted migration. Noted. Thanks. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reassign -1 faketime Hi. Thanks very much for your investigation. Olly Betts writes ("Re: Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit"): > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 07:29:54PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > 40s expected: «Query((Y2000 .

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reassign -1 faketime Hi. Thanks very much for your investigation. Olly Betts writes ("Re: Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit"): > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 07:29:54PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > 40s expected: «Query((Y2000 .

Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on 32-bit

2025-01-15 Thread Ian Jackson
en. Allowing the new faketime to migrate, despite the missing interposition for stat, would be a significant improvement. I'm hoping you'll agree. FTR, IMO if this bug gets anywhere near triggering autoremoval of xapian-omega, we should do something less drastic instead. Thanks, Ian

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