[10:27] <doko> jamespage: alembic is stuck in -proposed due to component mismatch
[10:27] <jamespage> doko: ah - yes - noted last week on my list to raise a mir/review that for a delta
[10:28] <jamespage> doko: just had some pxc security updates to clear first (now ready for security team review)
[10:33] <jamespage> doko: managed to drop a bit of required delta - fixing that right now
[14:04] <cpaelzer> when run in autopkgtest I see a set of "tr: write error: Broken pipe" but when logging into the very same guest and runnign again it does not show up
[14:05] <cpaelzer> does the autopkgtest execution have soemthing that comes to your mind that could cause this?
[14:05] <cpaelzer> my login is ssh as reported by autopkgtest on --shel--fail
[14:07] <cpaelzer> I'm trying to debug the tests atm, but lacking a way to reproduce this is hard, so if this might be a known issue to anybody let me know
[15:52] <cpaelzer> if anybody wondered about my question above - I have the solution - shell fragments like the following are the reason
[15:52] <cpaelzer> tr -dc "[:alpha:]" < /dev/urandom | head -c 6
[15:53] <cpaelzer> common at least on search engine hits (https://gist.github.com/paulomcnally/7209bad52c724d19bdd029b4a6631265) and were used in a packages test
[15:53] <cpaelzer> but the tl;dr the first read is more or less unlimited, which might eventually cause the issue
[15:53] <cpaelzer> something like "head -c 100 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:alpha:]' | head -c 6" works better
[17:34] <sarnold> cpaelzer: the downside to the second one is that there's a (very small) chance that it won't succeed once in a while
[17:35] <cpaelzer> sarnold: it might be shorter
[17:35] <sarnold> right
[17:35] <cpaelzer> sarnold: but I doubt it will be zero
[17:35] <cpaelzer> shorter is fine for me
[17:35] <sarnold> oh okay
[17:35] <sarnold> sometimes shorter is catastrophic :)
[17:35] <cpaelzer> and one can increase the first number to be "more safe"
[17:35] <cpaelzer> hehe
[19:02] <sil2100> !dmb-ping
[20:53] <kirkland> doko: thanks;  I've merged your debian/control fixes upstream