Re: Comma in Maintainer field

Hi Russ, On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 06:26:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > From my understanding the names in quotes should be parsed correctly, > > right? > > Definitely not. They will absolutely break with some tools. Thanks for the clarification. So since we have clarified this now in this

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

Hi Joël, On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:02:33PM +0200, Joël Krähemann wrote: > > I just replaced the alioth mail address of gsequencer repository. Thanks for the quick response. > What about an old debian changelog entry? > > -- Joël Krähemann Wed, > 01 Feb 2017 11:14:14 +0100 These changelog

Bug#896137: ITP: rebound -- Command-line tool to fetch Stack Overflow results when program execution error

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: SZ Lin (林上智) X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: rebound Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Jonathan Shobrook * URL : https://github.com/shobrook/rebound * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python

Re: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration

Raphael Hertzog wrote... > Packages maintained by forensics-devel@ and pkg-security-team@ all > have a fixed maintainer email in git. I was not planning on doing any mass > upload right now and I would be really annoyed to have to hand-edit all > changelog entries to add a bug closure. Debian pol

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

Russ Allbery writes: > Adam Borowski writes: >> Thus, there are locales where a purely ASCII word sorts differently >> when capitalized and when not. > Yes, including en_US. Just to head off the noise of the corrections for this error, this last should have said "yes, including C." -- Russ A

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

Andreas Tille writes: > From my understanding the names in quotes should be parsed correctly, > right? Definitely not. They will absolutely break with some tools. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

Ian Jackson writes: > I think nowadays we should specify that this field, and Uploaders, are > in RF822 recipient field syntax. I am opposed to this on the grounds that there are two types of RFC822 parsers in the world: correct ones that will drive you insane if you attempt to understand them,

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:19:46AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That said, nearly all US English writers will just omit the accents >> anyway. At least US English (I can't speak for UK) really aggressively >> drops accent marks. > About dropping accents: do you know wha

Work-needing packages report for Apr 20, 2018

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1271 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 161 (new: 4) Total number of packages reques

Collation discrepencies between locales [was: Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster]

On 19/04/2018 22:45, Holger Levsen wrote: > I now wondered if it's not only en_GB.utf8 which is "different", but also > the NZ and US variants sort like that (and so differently than C)... not > sure if en_FR.utf8 exist, but using it, it sorts differently / like C ;) > > (probably because it does

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:06:36AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > youtube-dl seems to have this bug in jessie-backports only. It could be > fixed by a re-upload with only one maintainer. Bugs in backports are not > tracked in the Debian BTS[1] but I've contacted the backports mailing list > and the

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

Philipp Kern wrote... > Turns out that this is a terrible idea. Because? > We should use numeric values for > sorting. (And Ubuntu now does the same thing on the technical side.) From a technical point of view there is no need for codenames at all. But being human I prefer names over numbers, e

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:35:25AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > In the C locale, all uppercase letters are sorted before all lowercase > letters: > > $ echo -e "buster\nStretch" | LC_COLLATE=C sort > Stretch > buster > > In en_GB, by comparison: > > $ echo -e "buster\nStretch" | LC_COLLATE

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:06:09AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > OTOH, there are some packages that have users.alioth.debian.org > > e-mail addresses in Maintainer and Uploaders, that may be worth > > dealing with. Andreas, thanks for digging out the facts and informing those affected! -- ch

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Maintainers: > > udd=# select distinct source, maintainer from packages where release = 'sid' > and maintainer like '%alioth.debian.org%' and maintainer not like > '%lists.alioth.debian.org%' ; >source| m

Re: salvaging packages, was Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

On 18.04.2018 07:09, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Paul Wise wrote: > >> I'm guessing you are referring to this file? > > Yes. > >> infinote://gobby.debian.org/debconf17/bof/if_you_love_a_package_let_it_go >> https://gobby.debian.org/export/debconf17/bof/if_you_love_a_package_let_it

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

Hi, I just replaced the alioth mail address of gsequencer repository. What about an old debian changelog entry? -- Joël Krähemann Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:14:14 +0100 Bests, Joël On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi again, > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:06:09AM +0200, Andre

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:19:46AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That said, nearly all US English writers will just omit the accents > anyway. At least US English (I can't speak for UK) really aggressively > drops accent marks. About dropping accents: do you know what can upcase('i') and lowercase

Bug#896111: ITP: servo-hdctools -- Chrome OS Hardware Debug & Control Tools

Package: wnpp Owner: Ana Guerrero Lopez Severity: wishlist * Package name : servo-hdctools Version : 20180401 Upstream Author : The Chromium OS Authors * URL : https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdctools * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Language: Python, C Description

Bug#896103: ITP: servod-tools -- manage multiple servo control boards automatically

Package: wnpp Owner: Ana Guerrero Lopez Severity: wishlist * Package name : servod-tools Version : 20180201 Upstream Author : Daniel Stone and others * URL : https://gitlab.collabora.com/gtucker/servod-tools * License : MIT Programming Python Description : manage multiple servo control boards a

Bug#896096: ITP: devpi-client -- PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool - Command-line client

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Dandrimont * Package name: devpi-client Version : 4.0.1 Upstream Author : Holger Krekel et al. * URL : https://github.com/devpi/devpi * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : PyPI server and

Bug#896097: ITP: devpi-web -- PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool - Web and search component

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Dandrimont * Package name: devpi-web Version : 3.2.2 Upstream Author : Holger Krekel et al. * URL : https://github.com/devpi/devpi * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : PyPI server and pac

Bug#896095: ITP: devpi-server -- PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool - Server

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Dandrimont * Package name: devpi-server Version : 4.4.0 Upstream Author : Holger Krekel et al. * URL : https://github.com/devpi/devpi * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : PyPI server and

Re: salvaging packages, was Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

Hi On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:09:31AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello gustavo, On Tue, Apr 17 2018, gustavo panizzo wrote: Besides the thread, are you aware of anything written down somewhere? Yes. Take a look on gobby (apt-get install gobby and connect to gobby.debian.org). Thanks, I'l

Bug#896094: ITP: devpi-common -- PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool - Common modules

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Dandrimont * Package name: devpi-common Version : 3.3.2 Upstream Author : Holger Krekel et al. * URL : https://github.com/devpi/devpi * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : PyPI server and

Re: Comma in Maintainer field (Was: problems in gjots2 and Debian)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 06:58:00AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > udd=# select distinct maintainer from packages where maintainer like '%,%' > > order by maintainer; > > maintainer > > > > --

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Comma in Maintainer field"): > Perhaps the designers of dpkg intended the Maintainer and each > comma-separated Uploader to be an RFC 822 "mailbox", That is indeed what I remember intending. But evidently it's not what I wrote. I dug out my copy of the source code to

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

On Mi, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:52:25 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:14:50AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: specifically, what locale sorts english words differently than LANG=C? Estonian (et_EE) sorts z between s and t. Boah, thanks for all the examples. I didn’t know you could

Re: Comma in Maintainer field (Was: problems in gjots2 and Debian)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:37:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:52:18PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:00:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Instead, tools grew to tolerate commas here rather than treat them as > > > separators (because

Re: Comma in Maintainer field (Was: problems in gjots2 and Debian)

Thank you Andreas, this is surprisingly interesting. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:37:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > "Adam C. Powell, IV" > Adam C. Powell, IV > Debian GNOME Maintainers , > Sebastian Dröge > John H. Robinson, IV > "Natural Language Processing, Japanese" > > Natural L

Re: Comma in Maintainer field (Was: problems in gjots2 and Debian)

Hi again, for sure I also here forgot the restriction to release='sid'... On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 19.04.2018 um 08:37 schrieb Andreas Tille: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:52:18PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:00:51PM

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 08:37:07 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Out of these there are clearly two bugs that violate our current [practices]: > > udd=# select distinct package, maintainer from packages where maintainer like > '%>%,%'order by maintainer; > package |

Re: Comma in Maintainer field (Was: problems in gjots2 and Debian)

Am 19.04.2018 um 08:37 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:52:18PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:00:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >>> Instead, tools grew to tolerate commas here rather than treat them as >>> separators (because they would mishandle

Re: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration

Hello, On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Also, @lists.alioth.debian.org addresses that were *not* migrated now > > result in bounces as expected. Are there already plans for a MBF > > severity RC against all packages with a now-failing maintainer address? > > Following the rule a so

Re: More expressive Multi-Arch field

Hello Lumin, On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, Lumin wrote: > Compared to "same"/"foreign", the idea above provides a more > expressive and self-doc'd Multi-Arch field. > > Your opinion? I think that you have no idea of the amount of energy and discussion that went into Multi-Arch. While your proposed wordin

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

Hi again, On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:06:09AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > if you are in CC of this mail please replace your e-mail address > in the named source package in Maintainer and Uploaders field since > the e-mail becomes invalid soon with the shutdown of Alioth. the lists are d

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

Hi, if you are in CC of this mail please replace your e-mail address in the named source package in Maintainer and Uploaders field since the e-mail becomes invalid soon with the shutdown of Alioth. On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:09:40PM +0200, Alex Muntada wrote: > OTOH, there are some packages tha