Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:20 PM Paul Gevers wrote: > On 05-06-2023 04:38, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >>> On a related issue, something in dpkg or apt should check the CPU > >>> features and refuse to perform an upgrade/dist-upgrade on an host > >>> whose CPU doesn't meet the new baseline

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 05-06-2023 04:38, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On a related issue, something in dpkg or apt should check the CPU features and refuse to perform an upgrade/dist-upgrade on an host whose CPU doesn't meet the new baseline requirements. Please file a bug with the respective packages.

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Hey Paul, On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 10:36 PM Paul Gevers wrote: > On 04-06-2023 21:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > As previously stated, the Geode LX (but not older Geodes) does fulfill > > the baseline requirement for i686. NOPL, PAE and others were marked by > > Intel as optional features. If

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Martin-Éric, On 04-06-2023 21:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: As previously stated, the Geode LX (but not older Geodes) does fulfill the baseline requirement for i686. NOPL, PAE and others were marked by Intel as optional features. If what the new Debian baseline really means is something that

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 29 May 2023 06:52:22 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: > On 28-05-2023 17:32, Paul Gevers wrote: > > On 11-05-2023 20:20, Paul Gevers wrote: > >> Please review my proposal here: > >> > >> https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 > > > > The release notes now document

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-05-28 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 7:15 PM Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 6:36 PM Paul Gevers wrote: > > On 11-05-2023 20:20, Paul Gevers wrote: > > > Please review my proposal here: > > > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 > > > > The release

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-05-28 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 6:36 PM Paul Gevers wrote: > On 11-05-2023 20:20, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Please review my proposal here: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 > > The release notes now document that the baseline has been bumped. Please note that I

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-05-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 11-05-2023 20:20, Paul Gevers wrote: Please review my proposal here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 The release notes now document that the baseline has been bumped. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-05-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch pending Hi, Please review my proposal here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-04-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 02/04/23 at 22:51 +0100, James Addison wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:58:28 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > This seems logistically problematic. > > Is lintian actually ran on i386 binaries anymore ? > > lintian.debian.org only lists reports for amd64 packages. > > Yep, some i386 binary

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-04-02 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: ballo...@debian.org, p...@debian.org On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:31:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Perhaps lintian could add classification tags for the relevant CPU > > > instructions and then the i386 port could have extra autopkgtest nodes > > > that only

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 12:05 +, James Addison wrote: > That's not a bad idea.  Are there any reasons that that might _not_ be a good > idea before filing a wishlist bug?  (performance, implications of scanning > binary packages, ...) binutils isn't security supported, so using objdump in

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 12:05:24PM +, James Addison wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:31:37 +0800, pabs wrote: > > Perhaps lintian could add classification tags for the relevant CPU > > instructions and then the i386 port could have extra autopkgtest nodes > > that only process the packages

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-20 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: elb...@debian.org Control: severity -1 serious Increasing this bug's severity to a release-critical, based on mailing list discussion[1]. Paul: bug #1005863 has most of the relevant context for Debian, although I'd recommend the

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-20 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@debian.org, ballo...@debian.org Dear Maintainer and Éric-Martin (with Bill on carbon copy), Please find linked below a previous release note from Debian 9.0 (stretch) that we could use to provide relevant user guidance:

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 16:44 +, James Addison wrote: > The 'grep' for the word 'nopl' seems potentially fragile.  If there's a > more-precise and/or less-false-positive-prone way to check whether each file > contains the 'nopl' opcode (and I'd expect that there is), then that'd be a > welcome

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 9:02 PM Paul Gevers wrote: > On 16-03-2023 20:20, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > The release notes for i386 should specify the minimum CPU requirements. > > Thanks for letting us know. If we raise the baseline, historically we > mention it in the release notes. I (as a

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Martin-Éric, On 16-03-2023 20:20, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: The release notes for i386 should specify the minimum CPU requirements. Thanks for letting us know. If we raise the baseline, historically we mention it in the release notes. I (as a member of the release team) wasn't aware we

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-19 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi I've used the following commands to confirm that the i386 sudo/1.9.9-1 package contains the bugreport-relevant NOPL opcode: # obtain an archived copy of the affected binary package $ wget2

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-18 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi Hi Martin-Éric - I intended to send my previous comment to you, but forgot to add you to on carbon-copy. Roughly speaking: I'm wondering whether there is a way that we can scan i386 architecture packages in

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-17 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: 1005...@bugs.debian.org Control: affects 1005863 net-tools Control: tags -1 moreinfo > While a kernel compiled for Geode LX (essentially a basic i686 without the > optional CPU features) still ships in Debian, many packages enforce

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: release-notes Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The release notes for i386 should specify the minimum CPU requirements. While a kernel compiled for Geode LX (essentially a basic i686 without the optional CPU features) still ships in Debian, many