Re: can't upload a patch

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno lun 6 mar 2017 alle 17:49, David Nalesnik 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 8:56 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > >  On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Federico Bruni 
> > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >  Il giorno lun 6 mar 2017 alle 14:50, David Nalesnik
> > > >  <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> > > > >  Hi Federico,
> > > > >
> > > > >  On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:15 AM, Federico Bruni 
> > > > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > >   Do you have ca-certificates installed?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  Yes, the newest version:
> > > > >
> > > > >  ca-certificates/now 20141019+deb8u1 all [installed,local]
> > > >
> > > >  Ok. Even though it seems an out-of-date package. Shouldn't it be 
> > > > version
> > > >  20160104 as shown here?
> > > >  http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/ca-certificates
> > >
> > >  Strange.  The package did strike me as old, but running
> > >
> > >  sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
> > >
> > >  gets me
> > >
> > >  Reading package lists... Done
> > >  Building dependency tree
> > >  Reading state information... Done
> > >  ca-certificates is already the newest version.
> > >  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 69 not upgraded.
> >
> >  Maybe it's pinned or the version number is spelled in a manner 
> > where it
> >  is considered newer.
> >
> >  Try removing and reinstalling it if possible without having other
> >  packages removed.  Otherwise, try forcing the update.
>
> The version in Ubuntu is the one from 2016; the one in the Debian
> machine is the older one, from 2014.  I'm not sure what to install to
> bring the Debian version more up-to-date, without screwing the system
> up.

Before doing so, I wonder if any other developer using LilyDev 4.1 
(maybe Harm?) can confirm if git-cl is working or not.
I don't have LilyDev 4.1 at hands to test git-cl.

> I managed to upload the patch successfully
> (https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5084/) by installing
> git-cl in Ubuntu -- thanks Federico!
>
> So, I haven't verified whether the problem is the ca-certificates
> version or the VM's network interface.  I'll try an Ethernet cable
> instead of the wireless adapter next.

I've seen also reports about proxy settings causing this sort of 
troubles.
So you may check it on your Ubuntu host:

env | grep -i proxy