Monday Triage 2025-01-27

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 03:07:20PM -0500, John Chittum wrote:
> ### Bug Triage ###
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> 2096644  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/run-one/+bug/2096644>:
> run-one
> 
> feature request for run-one. run-one is an Ubuntu special, currently in
> `main` as a dependency of `byobu`. Won't get into history, but the request
> on the surface isn't a bad one. Being said, there's no active development
> on run-one right now. There's more discussion we need around `byobu` and
> `run-one` support in general.

This has come up before, but yes we can discuss at the housekeeping
call.

Looking at this particular bug, the ambiguity of error codes happens
with bash itself too.

> 2096676 </> : procmail
> 
> Dug around a bit, and I think this may be a behavioral change between
> versions. Reading `man procmailex`, it actually seems like their past
> recipe shouldn't have worked. the logs in the noble version show it
> treating SENDER= as a variable assignment. previously, I'm assuming it was
> being parsed as an action, in which case the | is appropriate. But reading
> the docs, it seems like it should have always been backticks.

I dug into this one for a while today.  I left summary of my findings on
the bug report, and links to the corresponding upstream + debian bug
reports.  This looks tractable but hard/time consuming, however given
that this is the issue (or at least one of the issues) that caused
Debian to revert their merge back to an +isreally earlier version, it
is probably a priority issue to resolve.  I found a couple possible
avenues to explore, but since it's from a period where work was being
done not in git, it'll take some code surgery and experimentation to
test.  IOW, probably fixable but will be a bit of a project.

Bryce