git-merge-changelog in debian

. My *roff is a bit ropy, so I used perl's pod format. I've attached it, along with the pod2man output, feel free to include it if it's any use. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A

New stable snapshot

ackage has migrated to the 'testing' distribution, I'll do another upload with the git-merge-changelog package enabled. This is because new packages have to go through the NEW queue, which involves manual review from an ftpmaster, and a potentially long delay. cheers, I

test suite failure: gnumakefile

Stop. It's been failing for ages, thought I'd mention it again. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA

test suite failure: non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack

-tests) cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

test suite failure: test-dirent-c++

-c -o test-dirent-c++.o ../../gltests/test-dirent-c++.cc ../../gltests/test-dirent-c++.cc:27:1: error: ‘gnulib’ has not been declared ../../gltests/test-dirent-c++.cc:33:1: error: ‘gnulib’ has not been declared make[4]: *** [test-dirent-c++.o] Error 1 cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i

New stable snapshot

ailing for ages I plan to resume making snapshots, at least quarterly, hopefully more frequently. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Nadja - Desire in Uneasiness - Disa

snapshots, debian, non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack

sh' configure.ac:4: installing `build-aux/missing' gllib/Makefile.am: installing `build-aux/depcomp' cheers, Ian -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New stable snapshot

were you... I saw that, but thought "it's only a warning" and didn't take it. If you think it is sufficiently important I can roll up another snapshot. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Poliça - Give You The Ghost - Dark Star

New stable snapshot

20404 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). Only a few commits cherry picked, most were new code. cheers, Ian. PS mumble mumble snapshot even later mumble sorry mumble. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74

New stable snapshot

led down a bit. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Gnulib stable snapshot -- * 20111211-stable Snapshot take

Re: crypto/gc-{hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,pbkdf2-sha1}: test suite failures

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:59:27PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > I introduce that problem when I added stdalign. > Does the following patch fix things for you? Yes, that fixed it, thanks. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E7

crypto/gc-{hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,pbkdf2-sha1}: test suite failures

-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DGNULIB_STRICT_CHECKING=1 -g -O2 -MT md5.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/md5.Tpo -c -o md5.o md5.c md5.c:27:22: fatal error: stdalign.h: No such file or directory (logs attached) cheers, Ian -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74

New stable snapshot

git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable Git: git://erislabs.net/gnulib.git tag: stable/20110908 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA

New stable snapshot

rom stable). cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: David Holmes - Paper Underwear Gnulib stabl

New stable snapshot

10412 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). cheers, Ian. PS This one is a bit late, sorry.. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Mansun - Six - L

new stable snapshot

I took some of the earlier ones I thought it best to take the whole series. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy

(another) new stable snapshot

on't interfere with the release. See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental for information on accessing the experimental repo. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Antony and the

Re: New stable snapshot

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Then I thinnk it's worth creating a new one, yes. Righto, I've just released a new snapshot. I'll send out a separate announcement mail. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG

Re: New stable snapshot

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:27:35PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Ian Beckwith wrote: > > I've released a new stable snapshot. See attached NEWS.stable for details. Oops, I updated git, uploaded the debian package, but forgot to upload the tarball. It's now at: http://erislab

New stable snapshot

e experimental repo. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Joy Division - Closer - Heart and Soul Gnulib stable snapshot --

[PATCH] unistr/u8-mbsnlen-tests: fix deps

Hi, u8-mbsnlen's tests fail due to a missing dep. Trivial patch attached. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Dirty Blue Gene diff --

[PATCH] relocatable-prog-wrapper: fix test suite

Hi, relocatable-prog-wrapper fails the test suite. Trivial patch attached. I'm not 100% sure it is correct, but it passes the tests with it applied. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA

[PATCH] iconv: fix deps

Hi, iconv fails the test suite due to a missing dep. Trivial patch attached. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Safe as Milk - Flower Pot

New stable snapshot

e experimental repo. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: In the Nursery - Sense - Temporis Gnulib stable snapshot --

socketlib missing dep on sys_socket

Hi, gnulib-tool --test socketlib fails with: > configure:3552: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_PREREQ_SYS_H_WINSOCK2 Adding a dependency on sys_socket fixes it. Trivial patch attached. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: A

New stable snapshot

ots to the 'experimental' repository so they don't interfere with the release. See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental for information on accessing the experimental repo. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B

[PATCH] missing deps in unistr/

Hi, Several of the unistr/u{8,16}-str* modules fail the test suite due to missing dependencies on unistr/u32-to-u{8,16}. Patch attached. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening

New stable snapshot

times drag on for months, in which case I will still keep making stable snapshots, although they obviously won't be uploaded to debian. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: 65da

idpriv-drop test failure

Hi, idpriv-drop fails its test suite: chmod: cannot access `test-idpriv-droptemp': No such file or directory ./test-idpriv-drop.su.sh: 40: ./test-idpriv-droptemp: not found Looks like a cut-and-paste error, patch attached. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net

unitypes test suite failure

Hi, gnulib-tool --create-testdir fails with unitypes: configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBHEADER Trivial patch attached. Ian. PS I'm aware the next stable snapshot is late. Life suddenly got hectic, but it should appear in the next few days. -- Ian Bec

Re: bashisms

ument is not Posix, > nor portable. But you already mentioned that this merely causes a > fallback to be used, so this is not a problem. Oops, yes, I was only looking under builtins, not utilities. thanks, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerpr

bashisms

be replaced by use of which(1)? * shopt Most uses of shopt are fine, but there is one I'm not sure about: > possible bashism in tests/init.sh line 112 (shopt): > test -n "$EXEEXT" && shopt -s expand_aliases Are there situations where $EXEEXT is set and bash is not run

[PATCH] make check: avoid an error when no .git dir present.

Hi, Attached is a trivial patch to the top-level Makefile to stop 'make check' generating an error when there is no .git directory present (which will happen with the stable snapshot tarball). I've already applied this patch in the just-released stable snapshot. cheers, Ian. -

Re: New stable snapshot

Inevitably I forgot to attach NEWS.stable. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - Cemetery Polka Gnulib stable snapshot

HOWTO and script for stable snapshots

list archive and at: http://erislabs.net/ianb/projects/gnulib/STABLE-HOWTO.html http://erislabs.net/ianb/projects/gnulib/stable-cherry-pick cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to

New stable snapshot

t tag: stable/20100424 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Tom Waits - Bone Machine - Black Wings signatur

{f,}printf-posix test failure

ght (USE_SNPRINTF is defined), calls the system's snprintf(), which returns -1. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Vampire Weekend - Contra - Giving Up The Gun signature.asc Description: Digital signature

make check fails: modules/ioctl uses AC_CHECK_FUNCS

ioctl use AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, not AC_CHECK_FUNCS in modules/ make: *** [sc_prefer_ac_check_funcs_once] Error 1 Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Death in Veg

Re: New stable snapshot

hanks! [snip] > +We also make stable releases every two months, at > +...@url{http://erislabs.net/ianb/projects/gnulib/}. > +...@end itemize I'll try and increase the frequency so it's nearer monthly, but two months is good as an upper bound. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislab

New stable snapshot

t tag: stable/20100308 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling - Daphne And The

Re: coreutils-8.4 very soon

table Git: git://erislabs.net/gnulib.git tag: stable/20100109 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). See NEWS.stable in the tarball or my just-posted announcement mail for which commits are included. Ian -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ G

New stable snapshot

t tag: stable/20100109 (stable branch, master is the debian branch, derived from stable). Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Gnulib stable sna

select, nanosleep, mbslen, at-func2

#x27;proc_buf1' > > IMO, the right fix is > > --- lib/at-func2.c > +++ lib/at-func2.c > @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ >} >} > else if (proc_file1 != proc_buf1 && proc_file1 != file1) > - free (proc_buf1); > +

First attempt at stable snapshot

bian branch, derived from stable). Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Gnulib stable snapshot -- * 20091120-stable Sna

Re: more test suite problems

; doesn't get me any closer to the root cause. Well, fwritable and fwritable-tests, at least, don't depend on fseek (directly or indirectly). Running 'make CFLAGS=-E fseek.o' in ALL/gllib shows the offset parameter is getting mangled: int rpl_fseeko (FILE *fp, (off_t)(long

Re: more test suite problems

ush fflush-tests fpurge fpurge-tests freadable freadable-tests freading freading-tests fwritable fwritable-tests fwriting fwriting-tests yesno yesno-tests Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Liste

Re: more test suite problems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:41:25PM +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote: > Is 'Module foo depends on a module with an incompatible license' a > bug? Attached are a list of clashes Which are all duplicated, sorry. sort -u incompatible-licenses. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@eri

more test suite problems

or fwriting. Is 'Module foo depends on a module with an incompatible license' a bug? Attached are a list of clashes but note that if you apply my patches above, fts-lgpl also clashes with cloexec, fcntl-safer and dirent-safer. cheers, Ian -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.

test suite problems

base table wordbreak-property uniwidth/: everything except: base Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Grails - Belgian Wake-Up Drill signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: License pedantry

lone or something along those lines, with maybe an option to set up a cron job to pull from the master repo (bad idea if they are going to hack on gnulib itself, but I assume most people won't). Do you think this is worth doing? Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net

Re: License pedantry

son, gperf etc.) are not listed among the Debian dependencies. These > tools are all needed in order to execute "gnulib-tool --create-testdir" > of the whole module set. Thanks, I'll fix this in the next version. Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://e

License pedantry

e Software Foundation > gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, > with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. thanks, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - i...@erislabs.net - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8B

Re: MacOS problem with "checking whether strcasestr works in linear time"

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:34:09PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > And explicitly resetting SIGALRM in the .m4 files avoided the hang. > I'm committing this. Great, that fixed it. Thanks! Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E7

Re: MacOS problem with "checking whether strcasestr works in linear time"

and attach it to your > mail; that's simpler. Oops, I've fixed the permissions and also attached it. cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: AF6C C0F1 1E74 424B BCD5 4814 40EC C154 A8BA C1EA Listening to: Half Man Ha

MacOS problem with "checking whether strcasestr works in linear time"

http://erislabs.net/ianb/tmp/gnuit-4.9.4-test5.tar.gz and config.log from the system with the problem is at: http://erislabs.net/ianb/tmp/config.log This is with gnulib from 2008-05-27 commit 9c504099 cheers, Ian. -- Ian Beckwith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://erislabs.net/ianb/ GPG fingerprint: