< BlueMatt>
gmaxwell: ugh, I'll see if I can find someone at canonical and tell them they're off letting people get scammed
< BlueMatt>
but probably not
< BlueMatt>
cause canonical dgaf
< gmaxwell>
can you unpack whats actually going on there?
< BlueMatt>
yea, so ubuntu decided that apt was confusing and instead of using apt for shit they want to push people towards "snaps" (some new canonical standard that "everyone else is also going to adopt, but for real this time)
< BlueMatt>
so it says bitcoin isnt installed via the snap installer thinggy (the ubuntu software center)
< BlueMatt>
but its installed via ppa (which, btw, completely doesnt work
< BlueMatt>
no idea where i was supposed to report that, but, seriously, fuck canonical
< gmaxwell>
BlueMatt: thanks... perhaps we should up priority of updating the PPA! :P
< BlueMatt>
hmm? the ppa has been pretty reliably up-to-date of late
< BlueMatt>
you'll note the snaps in this case were pretty clearly some bitcoin classic troll
< gmaxwell>
I thought the PPA can't to 0.17.0 because of the aformentioned bug?
< BlueMatt>
which I presume is at least partially why they havent been updated since classic flamed
< BlueMatt>
oh, the ppa has 0.17, it just doesnt work on the latest ubuntu
< gmaxwell>
oh jesus. it's bitcoin "classic"?
< BlueMatt>
no idea, the link to the "developer site" is bitcoin classic
< BlueMatt>
i mean its clearly low-effort going on there
< gmaxwell>
so it's either classic or the packager is especially ignorant.
< BlueMatt>
definitely at least the second
< gmaxwell>
(I've seen other people get tricked into thinking that 'classic' is the orignal bitcoin. .. the most amusing of which was some post after BU caught fire that tried to claim that BU's problems were mostly because the original bitcoin software was such crap, and then went after a bunch of bugs in 'classic' that either never were in Bitcoin or had long since been fixed. :P )
< bitcoin-git>
[bitcoin] promag opened pull request #14756: Improve by using argparse and getpass modules (master...2018-11-improve-rpcauth.py) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14756
< bitcoin-git>
[bitcoin] practicalswift opened pull request #14757: Avoid reading uninitialized variables in serialization code (triggered when running "make check") (master...avoid-read-of-uninitialized-variable) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14757