Re: dh_dwz failure

2019-07-16 Thread Niels Thykier
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel: > Hello, I am woriking on a new package called bornagain. > > I switched to compat level 12 and now I have this error message. > I do not know how to fix this ? > > thanks for your help. > > Frederic > >dh_dwz > install -d debian/bornagain/usr/lib/debug/.dwz/x

Re: sbuild & cross build

2020-04-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Hilmar Preuße: > Am 15.04.2020 um 02:45 teilte Wookey mit: >> On 2020-04-15 00:02 +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the answer Wookey! > > [...] > Anyway: we have build failures of texlive-bin on sparch64/powerpc very > likely b/c there are too many build threads called in paral

Re: No "linux-all" architecture wildcard

2020-05-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Christoph Biedl: > Hello, > > while packaging something that makes sense on Linux only, but one of the > built packages is architecture-*in*dependent while depending on some > of the linux-any ones - in other words, that arch-indep package makes > no sense on non-linux ... > > The obivous way to

Re: dh_install by file suffix

2023-07-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Ole Streicher: Hi again, I think youe way could be to put the file list into a variable in d/rules, and expand the list the .install, like: -- debian/iraf.install - etc/iraf/ usr/lib/iraf/bin/ecl.e [... other fixed content] ${env:IRAF_FILES} ---

Re: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

2023-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Nilesh Patra: On 25 August 2023 1:47:26 pm IST, Nilesh Patra wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:52:17 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Source: eegdev Version: 0.2-6 Severity: serious In file included from conffile.lex.c:242: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first."

Re: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

2023-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: [...] Hi, [...] I believe that this is stdio.h is generated by the embedded gnulib copy and that is as far as I am willing to debug that rabbit hole. Based on the error, I assume gnulib's generated stdio.h requires the project specific "config.h" to

Re: Flex help needed for eegdev (Was: Re: eegdev: FTBFS: ../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first.")

2023-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Nilesh Patra: On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 05:17:47PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] I had figured out this already, but conffile.lex.c does not exist in the project, it is generated as a part of the lexer output. In particular: Ok, apologies it was not clear to me from your opening email

Bug#1051213: RFS: debianutils/5.12 [ITA] -- Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian

2023-09-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: owner -1 ! Ileana Dumitrescu: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "debianutils": [..] Niels Thykier and I will be co-maintaining this package. I got this. :) Best regards, Niels

Re: Package remains in status "Uploaded"

2023-09-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Preuße, Hilmar: Hi all, the package texinfo has been built successfully for architecture loong64 and is in status "Uploaded" for about a month now. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of packages in status "BD-Uninstallable" b/c it does not get installed. What can be done here? Hilmar This u

Re: Package remains in status "Uploaded"

2023-09-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Preuße, Hilmar: On 27.09.2023 19:07, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, In your  case, I would start with a give back and then if this attempt fails, contact the buildd admins. AFAICT that option is limited to Debian Developers. So if anybody would be so kind Hilmar Turns out a give-back is

Re: dh-cmake writing to /usr instead of fakeroot?

2024-02-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Elliana May: Sorry, I have a few tabs open, this is the correct one: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/715071071/buildlog_ubuntu-jammy-amd64.duckdb_0.10.0-10_BUILDING.txt.gz I've tried now overriding the override_dh_auto_configure rule in the debian/rules file, but even that seems to not be making

New editor integrations for Debian packaging files (LSP support)

2024-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Sent to d-devel and d-mentors, since the members of both lists are the target audience. If you reply, please consider whether both lists should see the message (and prune the recipient list accordingly as necessary). In response to a recent thread on debian-devel about editor support for

Re: Bug#1078267: RFS: markdown/1.0.1-13 [ITA] [RC] -- Text-to-HTML conversion tool

2024-08-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Soren Stoutner: Andrea, On Tuesday, August 13, 2024 12:33:57 AM MST Andrea Pappacoda wrote: [...] That's a false positive. Rules-Requires-Root: no is already implied by the build dependency on dpkg-build-api (= 1). Please see dpkg-build-api(7) and bug #1057176. I also think that adding a linti

Re: Bug#1078267: RFS: markdown/1.0.1-13 [ITA] [RC] -- Text-to-HTML conversion tool

2024-08-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Soren Stoutner: Niels, [...] I do not consider this to be simply a “lintian” issue. Rather, I consider it best practice as documented in the Debian Policy Manual. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#rules-requires-root Policy is *also* out of date: https://bugs.d

Re: package marked to auto removal due to a problem with its dependency

2024-08-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Lajos Veres: Hi, I have got this email a few days ago: <--- [...] ---> If I understand well this package https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ksh93u+m had an issue. ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1073656 ) Which causes the trouble. (Misspell-fixer has a build dependency on shunit

Re: Custom decompressor for mk-origtargz

2024-09-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Preuße, Hilmar: Am 07.09.2024 um 23:49 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar: Hi, Can I tell mk-origtargz to use 7z instead of unzip to uncompress the zip file? The unzip binary is hard coded in MkOrigtargz.pm, I tried to replace, by 7z, but failed until now:     @cmd = ('7z','x');  

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

2020-11-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Marc Ferland: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > [...] > > Changes since the last upload: > > libzc (0.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* New upstream release. >* New Dockerfile to simplify debian releases. >* Remov

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

2020-12-01 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Marc Ferland: >> Package: sponsorship-requests >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear mentors, >> >> [...] >> >> Changes since the last upload: >> >> libzc (0.4.3-1) unstable; urge

Re: dh_testroot: error: Package needs targeted root but builder has not provided a gain-root command via ${DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD}

2020-12-01 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Tille: > Control: tags -1 pending > > Hi, > > upstream of fis-gtm package[1] confirmed that the build needs some root > permissions. Thus I've set > >Rules-Requires-Root: yes > > When trying to build with pbuilder I get: > >dh_testroot > dh_testroot: error: Package needs targe

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

2020-12-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > [...] > > Thanks, I have uploaded it to unstable. > > ~Niels > Hi Marc, Because this libzc renamed a binary, the upload had to go through NEW. This in turn implied that I had to do a binary upload and the upload will not migrate to testing without a new sour

Bug#976180: RFS: libzc/0.4.3-1 -- Command line tool for the libzc library

2020-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Marc Ferland: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 6:24 AM Niels Thykier wrote: > >> Niels Thykier: >>> [...] >>> >>> Thanks, I have uploaded it to unstable. >>> >>> ~Niels >>> >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> Because this libzc

Re: Conflicts does not remove old package

2021-01-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Hilmar Preuße: > Hi, > > we got https://bugs.debian.org/978431 telling that the upgrade from > buster to sid fails. This is also visible in piuparts [1]. > >   Unpacking texlive-base (2020.20201203-2) over (2018.20190227-2) ... >   dpkg: error processing archive > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-K7a7FC/07-

Bug#993552: RFS: proton-caller/2.3.2-1 [ITP] -- Run any Windows program through Proton

2021-09-04 Thread Niels Thykier
BenTheTechGuy: >> [...] >> debian/rules is missing a lot of functionality: mandatory targets like >> {build,binary}-arch; passing build flags, handling cross builds, etc. >> All of this would be much better done with dh (like the vast majority >> of packages in Debian do) -- it does know ho

Bug#996592: RFS: workflow/0.9.8-1 [ITP] -- Parallel computing and asynchronous web server engine

2021-11-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Bastian Germann: > Hi Lance, > > [...] > > You should not need to build depend on dh-exec with debhelper 13. > > Cheers, > Bastian > Drive by remark/clarification: * If you use dh-exec then you need to Build-Depend on it regardless of debhelper compat level. * With compat 13, debhelper

Re: Wrestling with debconf

2022-01-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Kip Warner: > Hey list, > > [...] > The problem here is this re-running of the myfoo-server.config happens > before the myfoo-server.postinst. This is bad because the latter is > supposed to update the values in /etc/myfoo/server.conf to whatever the > user just entered via debconf prompts. > > B

Re: cmake: compat 11 vs 13 (-indep)

2022-01-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Mathieu Malaterre: > [cc me please] > > Symptoms: > > I've recently discovered the following change in behavior for > dh_missing + cmake + -indep. Basically using compat 13 it is now an > error when build-indep rule install stuff other than just the -indep > files (1). > The error is not specif

Re: cmake: compat 11 vs 13 (-indep)

2022-01-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Mathieu Malaterre: >> [cc me please] >> >> Symptoms: >> >> I've recently discovered the following change in behavior for >> dh_missing + cmake + -indep. Basically using compat 13 it is now an >> error when build-indep rule in

Re: Free component in a non-free tarball

2022-08-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Andrius Merkys: Hello, [...] My question: Is it OK to extract AmberTools from Amber tarball and package for Debian main? [1] https://ambermd.org/AmberTools.php [2] https://ambermd.org/GetAmber.php#ambertools Best, Andrius From the description you have provided, I would assume yes with the

Re: Depend on a package from an other arch

2015-08-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-08-12 09:26, Bertrand Marc wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am trying to fix Debian bug #783875 [1]: playonlinux (which is arch > independant) should depend on the 32 bits version of wine. Therefore I > added a dependency on wine32|wine32-development, but it seems the > package will not migrat

Re: Depend on a package from an other arch

2015-08-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-08-12 09:48, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] >> > > Hi Bertrand, > > Neither solution will work. This is an artefact of how the testing > migration code handles arch:all packages. > > Please file a bug against release.debian.org requesting help wi

Re: paflib uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2015-08-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-08-21 17:21, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:37 PM, tfauck wrote: >> >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for the package paflib I just uploaded >> (ITP - #781117) http://bugs.debian.org/781117 paflib >> >> debuild passes ok, but lintian -EviIL +pedantic g

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

2015-08-23 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-08-23 12:48, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > Hi Thomas, > i worked a bit more on my local libburn package. > > [...] > > The failure of debuild -b with compat 9 still riddles me. > > With 9 it finally complains > > dh_install: libburn4 missing files (debian/tmp/usr/lib/libburn.so.4*)

Re: Placing code after #DEBHELPER# autogenerated code?

2015-09-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-03 15:53, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > Hi, > > are there legitimate cases, where it is okay to place code after the > #DEBHELPER# token? > > Cheers, > Patrick > Hi Patrick, Yes. There are many cases where it in fact does not matter whether your code is above or below that token. Tho

Re: Error Lintian hardening-no-fortify-functions

2015-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-06 14:22, "J.S.Júnior" wrote: > Hi, > > I’m get error lintian hardening-no-fortify-functions. > > I change in Makefile to `dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS` `dpkg-buildflags --get > LDFLAGS` > but no resolve > > Anybody can help me? > > []`s > JJ > Hi, The "fortity-functions" is pro

Re: Access to Debian Test Farm for s390 Testing

2015-09-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-16 06:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I work with a free/open source project. We have a failure report from > a Debian package maintainer on an s390. > Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for your interest. :) I am directing you over to debian-mentors, since your enquiry is probably be

Re: Multi-Arch and debian/control

2015-09-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-21 12:45, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > while preparing the correction for a buildd failure on Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD i got a lintian complaint from kfreebsd-i386 7.9 > (the current "stable"): > > E: libburn4: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support > > [...] > > > Have a n

Re: Suspicious file changes in -dbg between old and new packages

2015-09-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-22 07:30, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > >> And why does it still work when i install back 1.4.0-2 ? > > > > > well, if -2 and -3 didn't change symbols (e.g. you didn't patch the source > code), > why shouldn't it work? > > (I'm not sure to know how exactly the

Re: Suspicious file changes in -dbg between old and new packages

2015-09-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-09-22 08:41, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi Niels, > > [...] >> As for the build-id and how it is computed. It is based on the >> internals of the ELF binary including but not limited to: >> >> * The path where the binaries were compiled >> * The options given to gcc when compiled >> *

Re: systemd service unit causing lintian init issues

2015-09-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Matt Zagrabelny: > Hi Tino, > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Tino Mettler wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 16:36:42 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I'm packaging up a firewall script that ships with a systemd service >>> unit file. lintian is complaining about an init sc

Re: systemd service unit causing lintian init issues

2015-09-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > [...] > Sorry, I somehow managed to confuse it with "--onlyscripts", which needs that treatment. Please ignore my previous mail. :) ~Niels

Re: Including new packages in Debian

2015-12-26 Thread Niels Thykier
Joseph Bell: > Howdy, > > I'm looking to understand how one gets a given software package considered > for inclusion in Debian. I have 3 software components, one of which is > https://github.com/Zewo/libvenice , and I'm curious as to where do I even > start for getting into the next release of De

Re: package stuck in unstable after switching to AutomaticDebugPackages

2016-05-08 Thread Niels Thykier
James Cowgill: > Hi, > Hi, > On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 20:17 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> gearmand package has stuck in unstable due to missing -dbg packages: >> >> https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=gearmand >> >> The debug packages were removed after switc

Re: Trying to disable error=format-security for clapack

2016-05-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Mattia Rizzolo: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:11:54AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> On 05/16/2016 11:07 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> When reading the code it seems to me that actually a test whether this >>> code works or not is intended and thus fixing the format is not in the >>> intentio

Re: Bug#800406: RFS sayonara/0.8.2

2016-05-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Ross Gammon: > On 05/22/2016 10:03 AM, Ross Gammon wrote: >> The package is still building here, > > [...] > I: sayonara: hardening-no-pie usr/bin/sayonara > I: sayonara: hardening-no-bindnow usr/bin/sayonara > I: sayonara: hardening-no-bindnow usr/lib/sayonara/libsayonara_somafm.so > I: sayonara:

Re: Bug#1091541: RFS: asmc-linux/0.0~git20241215.7dbd9df-1 [ITP] -- Masm compatible assembler

2024-12-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Peter B: On 28/12/2024 12:03, Phil Wyett wrote: ??? Hi Phil, just F.Y.I, I am seeing several emails from you each week, including the one I'm replying to here, that have no body! Maybe its my email reader (Thunderbird). Is anyone else having this problem? Cheers, Peter P.S.  This mail h

Bug#1091806: RFS: ydotool/1.0.4-1 [ITA] -- Generic Linux command-line automation tool

2025-07-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:23:43 +0200 Salvo Tomaselli wrote: I see that you replaced completely the previous maintainer's name in the copyright file. That seems wrong. Also for now updates should target experimental. [...] Tagging moreinfo based on this feedback an

Bug#1104483: RFS: fonts-stix/2.14-1 [ITA] -- Scientific and Technical Information eXchange fonts

2025-07-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Abhishek Deshpande, Thanks for applying to adopt fonts-stix. Given where we are in the freeze and that fonts-stix does not have autopkgetests (not sure how you would make those for fonts), we cannot upload fonts-stix to unstable at this time. This leaves us with

Bug#1104244: RFS: foomuuri/0.28-1 [ITA] -- multizone bidirectional nftables firewall

2025-07-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 10:29:41 +0300 "Kim B. Heino" wrote: Hi, It's been a month. Any progress? Hi Kim, Sorry for the long delay. Unfortunately, it seems Jeremy is currently unavailable for sponsoring given their lack of follow up on this bug. To move things along: 1) I have granted you

Bug#1107556: RFS: shotwell/0.32.13-1 -- digital photo organizer

2025-07-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:48:26 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Frings-F=FCrst?= wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [...] Changes since the last upload:  shotwell (0.32.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium  .    * New upstream release (Closes: #1107513).    *

Bug#1091806: RFS: ydotool/1.0.4-1 [ITA] -- Generic Linux command-line automation tool

2025-07-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Maytham Alsudany: On Sat, 2025-07-19 at 08:29 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: @Maytham: Since you are a DD and have shown interest in this package/RFS, will you take the upload/this RFS from here? If so, then please set yourself as owner or close the bug and align

Bug#1104244: RFS: foomuuri/0.28-1 [ITA] -- multizone bidirectional nftables firewall

2025-07-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Kim B. Heino: Hi Niels, 1) I have granted you commit access (developer) to https://salsa.debian.org/debian/foomuuri in case you want to move the packaging there. Thank you. I pushed the commits there and I'll remove my personal copy later. You are welcome. 2) I am ok wi

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