Re: Bug#1024261: debhelper: dbgsym packages contain directoryr writable by build user

2023-03-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Helmut Grohne: Hi, Hi Helmut Thanks for your work - both on this specific problem and in general! On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 06:08:22PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Axel Beckert: Could this be https://bugs.debian.org/1023286 in fakeroot as well as Niels pointed out in https://bugs.debian.org

Bug#1033409: nmu: dbgsym packages affected by fakeroot bug

2023-03-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: binnmu X-Debbugs-Cc: debhel...@packages.debian.org, hel...@subdivi.de Hi, I propose the following series of NMUs to close #1024261. The list is based on the set of packages that Helmut found wit

Re: Bug#1031695: dh_installsystemd doesn't handle files in /usr/lib/systemd/system

2023-03-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Sebastian Ramacher: [...] Any progress here? If this issue should be fixed for bookworm, time is running short. Cheers I find that anytime I look at this bug my motivation to work on Debian instantly vanishes. In fact, I cannot even motivate myself to read the bug log to figure out what the

Bug#928081: unblock: matrix-synapse/0.99.2-3.1

2019-04-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Antoine Beaupre: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package matrix-synapse > > The package currently in buster generates gigabytes of logs which can > easily fi

Bug#928090: unblock: ipywidgets/6.0.0-4

2019-04-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Sergio Durigan Junior: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Hi there, > > I'd like to request the unblock of ipywidgets, please. The current > package in buster FTBFS due to a

Bug#928093: unblock (pre-approval): gnome-shell/3.30.2-9

2019-04-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Simon McVittie: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Now that gnome-shell's RC bugs are (hopefully) dealt with, I'd like > to update gnome-shell with the remaining bug fixes from

Bug#928094: unblock (pre-approval): mutter/3.30.2-7

2019-04-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Simon McVittie: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > While preparing gnome-shell/3.30.2-9 (see separate unblock request) I > thought I should also look into updating the closely

Bug#928092: unblock: youtube-dl/2019.01.17-1.1

2019-04-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Antoine Beaupre: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package youtube-dl > > youtube-dl, as often happens, has already lagged behind the youtube > interface and c

Bug#928081: unblock: matrix-synapse/0.99.2-3.1

2019-04-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:30:03 -0400 Antoine Beaupre wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package matrix-synapse > > The package currently in buster generates gigabytes of logs which can > easi

Bug#926992: unblock: sia/1.3.0-1.1

2019-04-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Beckmann: > On 2019-04-18 13:18, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Andreas Beckmann: >>> This NMU adds 'missingok' to the logrotate config, fixing piuparts >>> unblock sia/1.3.0-1.1 >> Unblocked, thanks. > > This is stuck behind golang-golang-x-

Re: How to handle daemon-not-running bugs of debhelper compat level 11?

2019-04-29 Thread Niels Thykier
wf...@niif.hu: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:12:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote: > >> Related note (with my RT hat on): Please defer debhelper compat bumps >> for anything targeting buster as it is not considered a "minimal change". > > Dear Release Team, >

Bug#926992: unblock: sia/1.3.0-1.1

2019-04-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Beckmann: > Control: reopen -1 > Control: retitle -1 unblock: sia/1.3.0-1.1~deb10u1 [t-p-u] > > On 2019-04-29 07:42, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Ok, can you prepare a t-p-u upload to fix this directly in testing then? > > What is the correct (or preferred) distri

Bug#928281: unblock: lemonldap-ng/2.0.2+ds-7 (pre-approval)

2019-05-01 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Xavier Guimard: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package lemonldap-ng > > Hi all, > > upstream authors of lemonldap-ng have updated language translations. I

Bug#928448: unblock: mmdebstrap/0.4.1-3

2019-05-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Johannes 'josch' Schauer: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Hello release team! > > [...] > > I find especially support for old apt versions and derivative > distributions im

Bug#928455: [pre-a] unblock: perl6-zef/0.6.2-2

2019-05-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Mo Zhou: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > X-Debbugs-CC: Robert Lemmen , Dominique Dumont > > > Please unblock package perl6-zef > > (explain the reason for the unblock here)

Bug#928395: unblock: apt/1.8.1

2019-05-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Julian Andres Klode: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package apt > > I'd like to add systemd inhibitor support to apt in buster, so people > don't shoot each

Bug#928407: unblock: bind9/1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5

2019-05-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 d-i confirmed Bernhard Schmidt: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package bind9 > > -4 and -5 have the following changes over -3 currently in testing. > > - CVE-2018-5743 (Bug#9

Re: How to handle daemon-not-running bugs of debhelper compat level 11?

2019-05-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Michael Biebl: > Am 30.04.19 um 17:26 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 29.04.19 um 21:53 schrieb Niels Thykier: > >>> override_dh_installinit: >>> DH_COMPAT=12 dh_installinit ... >>> >>> override_dh_installsystemd: >>> DH_COMPAT=12

Bug#928715: testing-pu: groonga/9.0.0-1+deb10u1

2019-05-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed On Thu, 9 May 2019 23:10:14 +0900 Kentaro Hayashi wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock groonga package: > > * It fixes #928304. > The bug is reported ag

Bug#928489: unblock: spf-engine/2.9.0-4

2019-05-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Scott Kitterman: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package spf-engine > > It's just been reported that postfix-policyd-spf-python is missing a > depends on pyt

Bug#926681: unblock: acme-tiny/1:4.0.4-1

2019-05-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Samuel Henrique: > I do understand that this is a new upstream release but it should be > unblocked because it's a 198 line python script. > > If we don't fix this, then acme-tiny will have to be removed from Buster. > > @LetsEncrypt team, do you have any word

Bug#928428: unblock: [pre-approval] wicd/1.7.4+tb2-7

2019-05-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Axel Beckert: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > In the light of dhcpcd5 automremoval (#928056, #928104, #928105), I'd > like to upload a wicd package which relies less on dhcpcd5. [...

Bug#928939: unblock: hello/2.10-2

2019-05-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Santiago Vila: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Hello. I'm asked to make a release of hello to fix the version skew > created by the test security upload for stretch. Since t

Re: fixing debian-security-support upgrades from stretch (for good)

2019-05-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Mon 13 May 2019 at 11:52AM +00, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> [re-sent with debian-release list address corrected...] > > Also resending. Sorry. > >> so there is "#928172 debian-security-support: fails to upgrade from >> 'testing': >> dpkg: error: error executing hoo

Bug#929029: unblock: apt-cacher-ng/3.2.1-1

2019-05-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Eduard Bloch: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please advise how to process with a required fix for the package > apt-cacher-ng. > > The change is a one-liner and solves the bug #928

Bug#928908: unblock: libdebian-installer/0.119

2019-05-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 d-i confirmed Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock libdebian-installer/0.119 fixing RC bug #55 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=55

Bug#929001: unblock: pacemaker/2.0.1-4

2019-05-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Ferenc Wágner: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package pacemaker > > Dear Release Team, > > Three security issues were discovered in Pacemaker, all of which were > fixed by the GitHub pull requ

Bug#929132: unblock (pre-approval): dbus/1.12.14-1

2019-05-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Simon McVittie: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > I would like to follow the dbus upstream 1.12.x stable branch in buster, > like I did for 1.8.x in jessie and 1.10.x in stret

Bug#928908: unblock: libdebian-installer/0.119

2019-05-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Control: tags -1 d-i confirmed > > Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: unblock >> >> Please unblock libdebian-installer/0.119 fixing

Bug#929029: unblock: apt-cacher-ng/3.2.1-1

2019-05-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Eduard Bloch: > Control: retitle -1 [pre-approval] unblock: apt-cacher-ng/3.2.1-1 > > Hallo, > * Niels Thykier [Wed, May 15 2019, 07:53:00PM]: >> Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Sure, see attachments. As explained before, just a one-lin

Bug#929171: unblock: espeakup/1:0.80-15

2019-05-18 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed d-i Samuel Thibault: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Hello, > > As reported on Bug#929169, “the Linux kernel in Buster seems to take > much longer (as much as 12s!) to detect some s

Bug#929215: unblock: systemd/241-4

2019-05-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed d-i Michael Biebl: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package systemd > > All patches are cherry-picked from upstream git. > > Annotated changelog: > > systemd (241-4)

Bug#929132: unblock (pre-approval): dbus/1.12.14-1

2019-05-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 d-i confirmed Simon McVittie: > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 18:59:00 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I am ok with these changes on the premise that you are ready to promptly >> rollback to the bare minimum changes in case of re

Bug#929387: unblock: libssh/0.8.7-1 (pre-upload approval)

2019-05-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Martin Pitt: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Three months ago, a new libssh upstream bug fix release 0.8.7 was done, which > fixes a dozen security issues, crashes, and othe

Bug#929452: release.debian.org: [pre-approval] testing-proposed-updates for unicode changes

2019-05-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Xavier Guimard: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Hi all, > > dur to unicode change, 2 nodejs packages require an update: > - node-regenerate-unicode-properties > - node-regexpu-core > > These 2 packages have been updated in unstable so can no more

Bug#929215: unblock: systemd/241-4

2019-05-26 Thread Niels Thykier
Michael Biebl: > Am 20.05.19 um 14:06 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 19.05.19 um 12:47 schrieb Niels Thykier: >> >>>> * Add check to switch VTs only between K_XLATE or K_UNICODE. >>>> Switching to K_UNICODE from other than L_XLATE can make the keybo

Bug#929607: unblock: qemu/1:3.1+dfsg-8 (pre-upload)

2019-05-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Michael Tokarev: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Hi! > I've prepared next release of the qemu debian package, with > a few bugfixes, and am asking if it's okay to upload the

Bug#929731: unblock: flash-kernel/3.99

2019-05-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed d-i Vagrant Cascadian: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > X-Debbugs-Cc: vagr...@debian.org, debian-b...@lists.debian.org > > Please unblock package flash-kernel > > This upload adds supp

Bug#924948: unblock: onedrive/2.2.6-2

2019-05-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Norbert Preining: > Hi Paul, > > On Thu, 30 May 2019, Paul Gevers wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:50:10 +0900 Norbert Preining > > What a time lag for a release related bug, impressive. > Hi Nobert, I can understand that the delay in the reply is unsatisfying to you - personally, I am not ha

Bug#929776: unblock: rrdtool/1.7.1-2

2019-05-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Jean-Michel Vourgère: > Package: release.debian.org > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > Severity: normal > > Please allow me to add an upstream patch in order to fix segfaults in rrdtool > daemon, that occurs when xport'ing an

Bug#929912: unblock: ltsp/5.18.12-3

2019-06-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed d-i Vagrant Cascadian: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > X-Debbugs-Cc: vagr...@debian.org, debian-b...@lists.debian.org > > Please unblock package ltsp > > This fixes two release-critic

Bug#929913: unblock: simple-cdd/0.6.7

2019-06-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Vagrant Cascadian: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > X-Debbugs-Cc: vagr...@debian.org, debian-b...@lists.debian.org > > Please unblock package simple-cdd > > This update fixes several release-critical and importan

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 7 juillet 2019 02:47 +01, Jonathan Wiltshire : > >> No binary maintainer uploads for bullseye >> = >> >> The release of buster also means the bullseye release cycle is about to >> begin. >> From now on, we will no longer allow binaries

Please assert severity of bug#1017441 (debhelper: building src:shadow wrongly makes passwd depend on systemd | systemd-tmpfiles)

2022-08-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Release team, Bug #1017441 was filed against debhelper in related to a change to dh_installtmpfiles that made it apply an unconditional dependency on "systemd | systemd-tmpfiles". My concern is not the dependency itself (as I understand it, the systemd GR ratifies that). What might be con

Re: Bug#1024261: debhelper: dbgsym packages contain directoryr writable by build user

2022-11-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Axel Beckert: Hi, Helmut Grohne wrote: 308 armel 313 armhf 316 i386 613 mipsel I think it is fairly safe to say that the problem affects 32bit architectures. Could this be https://bugs.debian.org/1023286 in fakeroot as well as Niels pointed out in https://bugs.debian.org/

Bug#933595: transition: pkg-js-tools

2019-07-31 Thread Niels Thykier
Paul Gevers: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hi Xavier, > > [...] > > Also, as this is a debhelper plugin, can't you couple this to a > debhelper compat level? I believe those were introduced to enable > introduction of backwards incompatible changes, but I have no idea if > that propagates to t

Bug#903211: Checking for removal of BD [was Re: release.debian.org: How to handle unbuildable packages in buster]

2019-07-31 Thread Niels Thykier
Paul Gevers: > Hi all, > > On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:32:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote: >> 3) Build-Depends are not enforced on removal. That is packages >> /can/ be removed while packages are build depending on them. >> >> Limitation 2+3 are slightly more in

Bug#934995: transition: xfconf

2019-08-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed pending On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:02:46 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > Hi, > > the Xfce team would like to upload the Xfce 4.14 release to unstable

Bug#934996: transition: xfce4-panel

2019-08-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Yves-Alexis Perez: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > the Xfce team would like to upload the Xfce 4.14 release to unstable > (most packages pre-release have been uploaded to experimental). > > Panel plugins m

Bug#934996: transition: xfce4-panel

2019-08-23 Thread Niels Thykier
> On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 09:55 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Could you check if >> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/xfce4-panel.html matches >> your expectation for the packages affected by this transition? > > I'm a bit surprised we have so few libxfce4

Re: vacation 3.3.2 MIGRATED to testing

2019-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Ian Jackson: > Debian testing watch writes ("vacation 3.3.2 MIGRATED to testing"): >> FYI: The status of the vacation source package >> in Debian's testing distribution has changed. >> >> Previous version: 3.3.1 >> Current version: 3.3.2 > > Hi. I think something went wrong with testing migr

Bug#934995: transition: xfconf

2019-08-25 Thread Niels Thykier
> On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 08:33 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Ack, please go ahead. > > Thanks, I've started uploading stuff. > >> Please let us know what will need binNMUs and when. > > Sure, I'll let stuff settle a bit after uploading everything and I

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi Mark Thanks for the investigative work and the patch. I have not had time to review the patch yet in details and hope to have a look this weekend. Could I convince you to add a small test case for this problem to our britney2-tests repo (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/britney2-tests) that fa

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Mark Hindley: > Neils, > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:03:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Hi Mark >> >> Thanks for the investigative work and the patch. >> >> I have not had time to review the patch yet in details and hope to have >> a look this w

Bug#944190: release.debian.org: Allow britney to consider installability of dependencies of essential packages

2019-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed patch Niels Thykier: > [...] > > I looking forward to your test case as it will make this issue a lot > easier to debug. > Hi, Thanks for the test case. :) I have pushed it to britney2-tests and flagged it as a known failure. > What is supposed

Bug#918620: britney: blocks arch:all packages on non-installability on CI archs

2020-01-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Paul Gevers: > Control: tags -1 patch > Control: forwarded -1 > https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/britney2/compare/31e32782...c9e8751c > > Hi all > > On 28-11-2019 10:28, Paul Gevers wrote: >> With the addition of arm64 as a CI architecture, the situation got >> worse. E.g. https://qa.debian.

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Aurelien Jarno: > On 2016-08-17 22:05, ni...@thykier.net wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Like last release, we are doing a roll call for porters of all release >> architectures. If you are an active porter behind one of the [release > Hi, Apologies for the tardiness on my part for this. > Does it really c

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
ni...@thykier.net: > Hi, > > Like last release, we are doing a roll call for porters of all release > architectures. If you are an active porter behind one of the [release > architectures] for the entire lifetime of Debian Stretch (est. end of > 2020), please respond with a signed email containin

ITM: Britney2 branch britney-patch-bundle-2016-09 into master

2016-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
t yet. The shortlog: Colin Watson (3): Clarify excuse HTML/text for the mindays == 0 case Rename fucked_arches to outofsync_arches Make removal of obsolete source packages configurable Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (1): Update whitespace; make the output easier to read

Bug#655976: queue-viewer: support binary debdiffs

2016-09-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Adam D. Barratt: > On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 16:13 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> It would be useful if queue-viewer could run debdiff on binary uploads, >> in order to catch things like missing or new files and permission >> changes. If anything interesting is found this could then be included >> i

Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

2016-09-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures! * It is a substantial hardening feature * Upstream has vastly reduced the performance penalty for x86 * The majority of all porters believe their release architec

Re: ITM: Britney2 branch britney-patch-bundle-2016-09 into master

2016-09-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Robert Park: > On Sep 25, 2016 9:48 AM, "Niels Thykier" wrote: >> >> [...] > > Thanks for accepting my patch! > > I was wondering if you had a chance to review my other patch as well? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812155 >

Re: Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Florian Weimer: > * Niels Thykier: > >> [...] > > Do you think that PIE-by-default makes BIND_NOW-by-default > unnecessary? > > (The argument is that with PIE, it is much more difficult to get a > controlled GOT write.) > Is this an implicit "Why did

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Mathieu Malaterre: > Hi all, > > [...] > > [Let's assume that we can't find a powerpc porter in time for Stretch.] > > 1. Will `powperpc` automatically be downgraded to simple port ? Or is > this also not automated and the port may simply be removed (eg. sparc) > ? > 2. Apart from loosing the au

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 09/30/2016 06:08 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I strongly /suspect/ that "no porters" for powerpc will imply the >> removal of powerpc for Stretch. It may or may not be moved to ports >> (assuming someone is willing to support it there)

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > [...] > > As for "porter qualification" > = > > We got burned during the Jessie release, where a person answered the > roll call for sparc and we kept sparc as a release architecture for > Jessie. However, we end

Re: ITM: Britney2 branch britney-patch-bundle-2016-09 into master

2016-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > I intend to merge the branch [britney-patch-bundle-2016-09] consisting > of 22 patches into master no later than Monday the 3th of October. It > has been tested with [no regressions]. > * CC: People known to run Britney > * BCC: contributors + the

[Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, Slightly overdue, we have created a survey for the Stretch artwork. Please cast your vote at: * https://surveys.larjona.net/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=926823&lang=en_us * Please be nice and vote only once! The survey closes: 2016-10-19 23:59 UTC Thanks, ~Niels signature.asc Descrip

Re: [Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Stretch

2016-10-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Martin Zobel-Helas: > Hi, > > On Mon Oct 03, 2016 at 22:02:00 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Slightly overdue, we have created a survey for the Stretch artwork. >> >> Please cast your vote at: >> * >> https://surveys.larjona

Re: Stretch freeze and the possible future upload of MATE 1.18

2016-10-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Vlad Orlov: > Hi all, > Hi :), I am moving this to debian-release with the MATE packaging team as CC. (Also BCC'ed to debian-de...@lists.debian.org) > I'm one of the upstream developers of MATE desktop environment. Current > version, 1.16, just reached Unstable and should make it into Testing s

Re: Architecture qualification meeting, scheduling

2016-10-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Adrian Bunk: > [ fullquote adding -ports, for people not following -release or -devel ] > > [...] > > Is https://release.debian.org/stretch/arch_qualify.html the up-to-date > information available to you, and the "candidate" line how a decision > would look like based on the current information?

Re: Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

2016-10-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for > PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures! > * It is a substantial hardening feature > * Upstream has vastly reduced the performance penalty for x86 > * The ma

Re: gcc-6: please enable PIE hardening flags by default on amd64 ppc64el and s390x

2016-10-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:25:30 +0200 Balint Reczey wrote: > Package: gcc-6 > Version: 6.1.1-12 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Matthias, > > As a continuation of the discussions [1][2] on debian-devel I'm > attaching the simple patch that implements enabling the PIE > hardening flags f

Default theme for Stretch

2016-10-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, We are very excited to announce that the default theme for Stretch is: ~~~ softWaves ~~~ Many thanks to all the artists and all who voted. :) For the full announcement, please v

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Alex Santos: > Hello > > Just a quick question on the bulk of PPC architecture and the eventual > abandonment. > > I admit that my question may seem naive so I apologize. > > How long can we expect PPC G3, G4 and G5 architectures to continue seeing > security updates? Is there a clear roadmap.

ITM: Britney2 branch britney-patch-bundle-201611 into master

2016-11-13 Thread Niels Thykier
erage! (excluding live-data tests) The shortlog: Martin Pitt (4): Move build checks before running policies Pass excuse to BasePolicy.apply_policy() Move updating of excuses into policies Use Excuse.is_valid when iterating through checks and Policies Niels Thykier (17)

Re: nspr transition to testing

2016-11-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Mike Hommey: > Hi, > > Why has nspr been a valid candidate for testing migration for several > weeks or months without it happening? > > Mike > Hi Mike, Britney believes migrating nspr will break libnspr4-0d in testing. Which is technically true as libsnpr4-0d has a strictly equal dependency o

Re: heads up: packages blocked from testing due to infrastructure bugs

2016-11-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Jonathan Dowland: > Hi, > > At least chocolate-doom and linux-wlan-ng are blocked from transitioning to > testing due to a bug in "control-suite", part of the infrastructure on > ftp.debian.org: #824169 > > As far as we are aware, there are no RC problems in these packages themselves. > > I just

Re: Bug#827061: transition: openssl - will both 1.0.x and 1.1.x be in Stretch?

2016-11-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Afif Elghraoui: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining two packages affected by this transition. So far, I've > just been monitoring the situation, as I share many of the concerns that > have been raised on -devel. > > Is it an acceptable solution to instead build-depend on libbsl1.0-dev, > downgrade the seve

Re: Bug#827061: transition: openssl - will both 1.0.x and 1.1.x be in Stretch?

2016-11-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Afif Elghraoui: > > > على الأحد 20 تشرين الثاني 2016 ‫23:05، كتب Niels Thykier: >> Which source packages are we talking about? > > gridengine and ori. In the case of gridengine, we have a contributed > patch, but it has not been applied upstream or seen more than > c

Re: ITM: Britney2 branch britney-patch-bundle-201611 into master

2016-11-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > > Hi, > > I intend to merge the branch [britney-patch-bundle-201611] consisting > of 21 patches into master no later than Monday the 21st of November. It > has been tested with [no regressions]. > * I have Cc'ed people, whom I know run Britney > &

Re: ITM: Britney2 branch britney-patch-bundle-201611 into master -- small update

2016-11-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Martin Pitt: > Hello Niels, > > Niels Thykier [2016-11-13 12:53 +]: >> [...] >> * It cherry-picks 4 commits proposed by Martin Pitt to assist Ubuntu >>with refactoring some their changes into policies. >> >> Martin Pitt (4): >> Move b

Bug#827061: Please commit to OpenSSL 1.0.2 in stretch now not constantly re-evaluateing

2016-11-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Sam Hartman: > > My understanding of the current plan is that we're adding openssl 1.1.0 > to unstable, but will make a decision about whether to drop libssl1.0.2 > later. > > That's really frustrating for the rest of the ecosystem--our users and > our upstreams, and I'd ask the release team to c

ITM: Britney2 britney-patch-bundle-201611-2 into master

2016-11-26 Thread Niels Thykier
ts all pass: https://travis-ci.org/Debian/britney2/builds/179089994 Test coverage at: 87% (as defined by python3-coverage) From 947f26f6e055a6b42408165b81234a722c29f79a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niels Thykier Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:31:18 + Subject: [PATCH] Fetch piuparts summarie

Bug#846141: hint-tester always converts its input to lowercase, meaning you can't use it on package versions with uppercase characters

2016-11-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed Iain Lane: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: britney > > Ahoy, > > I noticed when using hint-tester on Ubuntu. > > britney> easy […] dreamchess/0.2.1-RC2-2build1 […] > Version mismatch, drea

Re: ITM: Britney2 britney-patch-bundle-201611-2 into master

2016-12-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > I am back again with another branch [britney-patch-bundle-201611-2] for > Britney, which I intend to merge into master. I intend to merge it into > master no later than Sunday, the 4th of December. > > [...] > > > Thanks, > ~Niels &g

Re: Bug#847044: allow gitlab 8.13.6+dfsg2-1 to migrate testing

2016-12-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Pirate Praveen: > package: release.debian.org > > This version fixes many bugs in testing and the piuparts regression is > not introduced by this version (current version in testing has the exact > same problem with piuparts). According to piuparts.d.o, gitlab succeeds the test in testing. > I w

Re: Bug#847044: allow gitlab 8.13.6+dfsg2-1 to migrate testing

2016-12-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Pirate Praveen: > On ബുധന്‍ 07 ഡിസംബര്‍ 2016 02:02 രാവിലെ, Andreas Beckmann wrote: [...] >> >> And the actual problem for the piuparts test failing currently >> is a ton of cruft lying around after the package was purged: >> >> https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/gitlab_8.13.6+dfsg2-1.log >>

Bug#847044: allow gitlab 8.13.6+dfsg2-1 to migrate testing

2016-12-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Julien Cristau: > On 12/04/2016 11:18 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> looking at >> https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/gitlab_8.13.6+dfsg2-1.log I see: >> >> 12m12.4s ERROR: WARN: Processes are running inside chroot: >> 12m20.4s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: >> 12m55.1s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging l

Re: Release impact of introducing a new archive section?

2016-12-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Josh Triplett: > [Please CC me on replies.] > > [...] > > Does it seem reasonable to attempt to introduce these new sections > before the release, so that these pieces of software in stable can > successfully work with upcoming sections that will appear in > testing/unstable/backports? > > I'd b

Re: Processed: reopen,

2016-12-09 Thread Niels Thykier
clone 828266 -1 severity 828266 serious close 828266 fixed-version 828266 302-5.2 done Debian Bug Tracking System: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > >> # it still fails to build with openssl 1.1 >> reopen 828266 > [...] Hi Sebastian, Thanks for helping track these. There ha

Bug#846786: transition: ldns (tiny pkg-dns self-contained transition)

2016-12-15 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 pending Ondřej Surý: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > Hi, > > there's an upcoming new release of ldns that is going to fix OpenSSL > 1.1.0 RC bug (#846768). Upstream has changed SOVERSION

Re: Bug#847044: allow gitlab 8.13.6+dfsg2-1 to migrate testing

2016-12-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Pirate Praveen: > On വെള്ളി 09 ഡിസംബര്‍ 2016 01:45 വൈകു, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> The hint was there, it's just that since this is a new kind of hint, it >> hadn't >> been enabled in the configuration and so britney was ignoring it. >> >> I have fixed that now and urgented gitlab so it doe

Bug#848719: unblock: samba/2:4.5.2+dfsg-2

2016-12-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: severity -1 normal On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:44:58 +0100 Mathieu Parent wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: serious > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please let package samba enter testing fast, it includes security fixes only. > > unblock

Re: bup 0.29 in stretch

2016-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Rob Browning: > > I suspect it might be too late, but 0.29 has just been uploaded to sid, > and at least speaking from the upstream perspective (I'm one of the > developers there), we'd certainly be happy to see it stretch. > > I think we're probably about 2 days past the 10-day migration window,

Bug#844264: release.debian.org: Please clarify "Packages must autobuild without failure"

2016-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Santiago Vila: > Dear Release Managers: > > If Release Policy wording is not going to be clarified in any way, that's ok. > > [...] > > Please advise. > > Thanks. > Hi Santiago, Thanks for your interest in this subject and for wanting to increase the stability of builds in Debian. As Julien

Re: Debian 8.7 and Tomcat 8.5 support

2017-01-13 Thread Niels Thykier
dpawluk: > Hello, > I would like to ask, if Debian 8.7 release supports Apache 8.5.x? > Hi, Debian 8.7 will /not/ have Apache Tomcat 8.5, but it is available from jessie-backports (which has 8.5.9-1~bpo8+1 at the moment). Thanks, ~Niels

Bug#851664: nmu: pcp_3.11.7

2017-01-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Beckmann: > On 2017-01-23 21:24, Nathan Scott wrote: >> Understood, and yep, I would love to see that fixed (patches welcome), but >> its >> not reached the front of my queue yet. > > The deadline for uploading before the freeze is *soon*. *Really soon* > > [...] Sorry, but pcp is no lo

Bug#852818: unblock: python-oslo.middleware/3.19.0-3 CVE-2017-2592: CatchErrors leaks sensitive values in oslo.middleware (#852742)

2017-01-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Thomas Goirand: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Dear release team, > > CVE-2017-2592 was reported against python-oslo.middleware/3.19.0-2. We need > python-oslo.middleware/3.19.0-3 i

Bug#852865: unblock: gnome-orca/3.22.2-2

2017-01-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 confirmed Samuel Thibault: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Hello, > > The freeze is soon now, so I'm pre-asking for freeze unblock. > > This is about Bug#852863: switching between pidgin and

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