Re: Does removal of global variables from a library break C ABI?

2023-01-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 08:03:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Talbert writes: > > > In one of the library packages I maintain (hidapi), upstream removed a > > couple of global variables (my .symbols file noticed this). See > > abipkgdiff below. > > > Does this break ABI? My assessment

Re: Does removal of global variables from a library break C ABI?

2023-01-18 Thread Scott Talbert
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 08:03:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Scott Talbert writes: In one of the library packages I maintain (hidapi), upstream removed a couple of global variables (my .symbols file noticed this). See abipkgdiff below. Does thi

Many packages will install apache2

2023-01-18 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, I just keep on removing apache2 on my system, and find it bad that some updates will reinstall it. It seems to be coming from dependencies on "apache2 | httpd-cgi" which favors the former (I have some httpd-cgi installed, just not apache2). Is it okay to open bugs asking to use instead "httpd-

depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base

2023-01-18 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! Lintian just started erroring on 'depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base' on many of my packages yesterday. There are no new uploads of lsb-base recently and I did not find any news about this topic. The Lintian page https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-obsolete-package is only about the e

Re: depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base

2023-01-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-01-18 Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Lintian just started erroring on 'depends-on-obsolete-package > lsb-base' on many of my packages yesterday. There are no new uploads [...] > Does somebody know what is going on? > Example: > E: mariadb-server: depends-on-obsolete-package Depends: lsb-base (>

Re: Many packages will install apache2

2023-01-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-01-18 Jérémy Lal wrote: > I just keep on removing apache2 on my system, and find it bad that some > updates will reinstall it. > It seems to be coming from dependencies on "apache2 | httpd-cgi" which > favors the former (I have some httpd-cgi installed, just not apache2). > Is it okay to o

Re: depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base

2023-01-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Lintian just started erroring on 'depends-on-obsolete-package > lsb-base' on many of my packages yesterday. It's a very low priority cleanup; the Depends is redundant but harmless. > There are no new uploads of lsb-base recently

Re: depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base

2023-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >> Does somebody know what is going on? >> >> Example: >> E: mariadb-server: depends-on-obsolete-package Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) > The severity of this warning is grossly overstated. It shouldn't be

Bug#1029170: ITP: golang-github-sigstore-sigstore -- Common go library shared across sigstore services and clients

2023-01-18 Thread Leo Antunes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leo Antunes * Package name: golang-github-sigstore-sigstore Version : 1.5.1-1 Upstream Author : The Sigstore Authors * URL : https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Descriptio

Re: Does removal of global variables from a library break C ABI?

2023-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 09:33 -0500, Scott Talbert wrote: > Thanks Russ and Peter.  I didn't find any usage of these symbols, but I > did sadly find a lot of bundled copies of this library in the archive.  :( It might be worth asking the upstreams to remove the copies and registering the existing