Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 11:37 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/15/2012 10:07 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:11:32AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: [...] So systems which put additional logic in PID 1 are going to increase the probability of bugs being present, and those

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
I don't know why you think this is relevant to debian-devel, but have fun. (And please don't ask anyone to package anything in this format.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
it is almost entirely the same as Linux uses for *every* 64-bit architecture that supports a 32-bit userland. I think the only interesting difference is that x32 has 64-bit time_t. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong. signature.asc Description

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 22:53 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:14 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
. ...which is that dpkg does not support architecture-specific relations in binary packages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 02:35 +0200, Adrian Fita wrote: On 08/11/12 01:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote: Fair enough, but how about having the linux-image packages recommend

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
rtnetlink. But that is no more portable than using socket options to reflect addresses for UDP. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted kernel-wedge 2.85 (all source)

2012-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Closes: 678587 Description: kernel-wedge - udeb package builder for Debian-Installer Changes: kernel-wedge (2.85) unstable; urgency=low . * gen-deps: Ignore dependencies in default package-list that are overridden by the architecture package-list (Closes

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
; setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IP, IP_FREEBIND, one, sizeof(one)); bind(sock, ...); Or we set the net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind sysctl globally, but this is probably not a good idea. (Note that 'v4' there is not a typo; this would actually affect both v4 and v6.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 18:29 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2012.11.03.1515 +0100]: int one = 1; setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IP, IP_FREEBIND, one, sizeof(one)); bind(sock, ...); Or we set the net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind sysctl

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 19:35 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 3 novembre 2012 15:15 CET, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk : I can now disable DAD, or insert sleep 10 at the top of /etc/init.d/unbound, but neither is an acceptable solution. IPv6 has been a release goal for years and we

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Don't feed the troll. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 01:56 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. He should use the BTS like everyone else

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
at handling highly optimised code (tracking variables in registers, treating inlined functions as logically separate functions, etc.). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
. (The maintainer address may itself be a mailing list, but if the maintainer(s) no longer read mail sent to it then that's a further reason to orphan/salvage the package!) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:58:54PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:47:52PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: [...] All the pings in the world won't help if you are sending them via a path that discards them. I know several large US ISPs that automatically reject what

Accepted wzdftpd 0.8.3-6.2 (i386 source)

2012-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Pierre Chifflier pol...@debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Closes: 689906 Description: wzdftpd-back-mysql - modular, small and efficient ftp server - MySQL backend wzdftpd-back-pgsql - modular, small and efficient ftp server - PostgreSQL backend

Accepted tgmochikit 1.4.2-2.1 (all source)

2012-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Closes: 689285 Description: python-tgmochikit - The MochiKit JavaScript library as a TurboGears widget Changes: tgmochikit (1.4.2-2.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * Remove the text 'See scriptaculous.js for full

Accepted linux-latest 46 (source all i386)

2012-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Description: linux-doc - Linux kernel specific documentation (meta-package) linux-doc-2.6 - Linux kernel specific documentation (dummy package) linux-headers-2.6-486 - Header files for Linux

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
-or-file-in-var-run.html http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-lock.html [...] Seems like these should be added to ftp-master autorejects. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: nacl and CPU frequency.

2012-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
should not depend on kernel features that aren't in the official kernel packages in stable, as this can cause breakage during upgrades.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
environment. But I don't know a simple way to find the 'primary userland architecture' that is not distribution-specific.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
. If you're concerned about leaking sensitive information to untrusted processes then procfs is a far, far bigger problem (somewhat mitigated by hidepid or pid namespaces). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 23:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 09:07:57PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote: Some time ago I found that a package (I think it was openjdk but I don't remember for sure) which relied

Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 16:46 +, Amit wrote: Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk writes: Trying to load usbhid and passing a quirks parameter so that it ignores a specific device. Then, I have my own kernel module to control that device. What is this driver

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
@ at least twice. firmware-free (which doesn't even have the debian/rules target, but I'll look into it if the sources ever do change). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 21:47 +, Amit wrote: Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk writes: [snip] 1. I am currently using dh_installmodules to install package.modprobe. However, I noticed that the automated debhelper commands in postins/postrm don't run update-initramfs

Re: (fwd) make tar*-pkg considered dangerous

2012-09-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: question about section and name of a manpage

2012-09-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
that I do not want to describe the API of the library. [...] I think section 7 is right for overview documentation like this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
picture of which chips this needs to be done for. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
, and will be of no interest to the regular Debian user. So I don't expect any mess there. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 23:06 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On 9 September 2012 16:49, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: But I object to 32-bit PC and 64-bit PC. i686, amd64, x86-32, x86-64... at least

Re: even root cannot read my symlinks!

2012-09-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: even root cannot read my symlinks!

2012-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
) The precise restrictions are specified in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt in the linux-doc-3.2 and linux-source-3.2 packages. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette

Re: even root cannot read my symlinks!

2012-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the symlink and the user trying to follow it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette' signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
', with some success. Please could the publicity team try to follow this convention in future press/publicity material? (amd64 can run on current Macs, which are marketed as not-a-PC, but I don't think there's much point mentioning that until we make it easier to install on them.) Ben. -- Ben

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
be a cleaner way to do this.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 14:04 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 23:17 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: [...] But the OP system does not have old autofs5 package installed, only the config files from

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
, way. The kernel API is called rtnetlink (or NETLINK_ROUTE) and NM already uses it. Not all device relationships are properly represented through it yet, but people are working on it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
it). The initramfs is your early boot system. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
mounted the 'real root'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic

2012-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
), is that considered a bug, and what severity does it have? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Most likely these should not be managed by either ifupdown or NM. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
is image/x-xbitmap and not text/x-xbitmap, even though it can be read as ASCII text. (A new top-level type like 'vector' would have been better though.) Ben. Yeah strange all this ^^. Chris. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones

Accepted linux-tools 3.5-1~experimental.1 (i386 source)

2012-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Description: linux-kbuild-3.5 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 3.5 linux-tools-3.5 - Performance analysis tools for Linux 3.5 Changes: linux-tools (3.5-1~experimental.1) experimental; urgency=low . * New upstream release

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:44 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:51:27 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: What I mean is that this still happens: # ifup eth0 ... # ifconfig eth0 down # ifup eth0 ifup: interface eth0 already configured Why

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:18:12PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:03:49 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: There is, it's called the kernel. No, there isn't, and there can't possibly be, as interface's configuration isn't only what ifconfig

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 00:04 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:32:03 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: 3) ifupdown integration is really bad ifupdown is really a good framework, it offers hooks and and is properly integrated in many packages

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:21:18PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 02:51:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: What I mean is that this still happens: # ifup eth0 ... # ifconfig eth0 down # ifup eth0 ifup: interface eth0 already configured People talk about how

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
to answer questions and apply reasonable patches. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 02:07 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hey Ben. On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 19:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: To allow users to connect to the NetworkManager daemon they have to be in the group netdev. Like Vincent already pointed out, CK allows it, too. Oops

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Unfortunately, I don't have the spare time to make much of a contribution to that myself. (I do install ifupdown hooks as part of ethtool, so I'll have to think about those.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
]+.dll» (case-insensitively). I'd do this myself, but I don't have the hard drive space nor the bandwidth here, sorry. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Accepted kernel-handbook 1.0.15 (all source)

2012-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Description: debian-kernel-handbook - reference to Debian Linux kernel packages and development Changes: kernel-handbook (1.0.15) unstable; urgency=low . [ Jonathan Nieder ] * Fix capitalization in Applying patches or configuration changes

Re: adopting a recently removed package

2012-08-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
it ? See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism

2012-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
to run other software that we don't package, or to use (or develop) derivatives that replace some core components. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
what breaks?) I found unconditional use of ifconfig in: /etc/init.d/bind9 /etc/qemu-ifup /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools (wireless-tools must die too, though) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. - John Levine

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
be removed altogether. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
find that there is actually almost no portability. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:29:58PM +0300, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: Hello! Ben Hutchings has written on Wednesday, 8 August, at 16:24: On 08/08/2012 09:11 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: IMHO, if there's distros with ifconfig but not ip, then such distro doesn't deserve much attention

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
I insist on documentation for all new features. iproute2 documentation was somewhat lacking, but as Vincent says it has been improved a lot recently. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
(some sysctl), as it was below glibc minimum. [...] There is also no support for Linux amd64 executables on kfreebsd-amd64, as I understand it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. - John Levine, moderator

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 04:14:19PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: [...] guess: nvram-wakeup sgt-puzzles [...] Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk sgt-puzzles [...] There are a lot of short and generic names in this package. I appended 'game' to some of them to avoid such conflicts when originally

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
: siggen tripwire tcpd: tcm tcpd vuname: util-vserver umview Any volunteers to file bugs? -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
know. VirtualBox is supposed to support it, but a standard installation presumably won't pull in the necessary paravirtual drivers in the guest. Ben. So the beta of d-i looks good - more testing to follow. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 20:16 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support it, but a standard

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 08/04/2012 07:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: That's going to make testing Wheezy CD images annoying. Anyone else see this problem? I tried logging in under GNOME and GNOME

Re: Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 04:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I would like to address this by backporting this feature: commit d6e486868cde585842d55ba3b6ec57af090fc343 Author: Ludwig Nussel ludwig.nus...@suse.de Date: Wed Jan 25 11:52:28 2012 +0100 debugfs: add mode, uid and gid

Re: Bug#682706: ITP: crtools -- tools for freezing/checkpointing/restoring a running application

2012-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
: [...] This one uses some new kernel facilities that allow checkpoint/restart to be done reliably. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re: Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
-devel-announce; I will be happy to reciprocate. Thank you; also feel free to offer solutions which would be half accurate, and consider that there are over 5000 subscribers to debian-devel-announce. Out of which, it seems, only one has a problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos

Accepted kernel-handbook 1.0.14 (source all)

2012-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Closes: 627838 627960 638479 639846 651467 679204 681550 Description: debian-kernel-handbook - reference to Debian Linux kernel packages and development Changes: kernel-handbook (1.0.14) unstable; urgency=low . [ Ben Hutchings ] * Remove custom

Accepted ethtool 1:3.4.2-1 (source i386)

2012-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:28:01 +0100 Source: ethtool Binary: ethtool Architecture: i386 source Version: 1:3.4.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
, anyway. [...] The MIME type should be determined once and then used consistently thereafter, rather than being determined again according to possibly different rules. This seems to mean that in some cases it will be necessary to specify the MIME type to xdg-open. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.21-3 Severity: important Tags: security As discussed here http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-discuss/2012-July/000891.html. I certainly consider mounting of debugfs to be significant security liability. I'm not at all happy that people use

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
the user has installed (e.g. they don't usually specify versionded depedencies). As already pointed out, 'gnome' does recommend and suggest some packages that are not strictly required. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
NT take over PowerPC? No. Alpha? Not even after FX!32 provided fast x86 emulation. And the application developers used to Win32 (or Windows Forms) won't be able to port to Windows RT without first rewriting for the 'Windows Runtime' APIs. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 08:46 -0600, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: 2. Upstream kernel support: when booted in Secure Boot mode, Linux would only load signed kernel modules and disable the various debug interfaces that allow code injection. I'm

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
: obscure - mtools: obscure; FAT volumes are auto-mounted - twm: no-one should have to suffer this - discover, mdetect: I think these are pretty much obsolete, but could be wrong - linux-sound-base, alsa-base, alsa-utils: rarely needed AFAIK Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
, where PulseAudio stores mixer settings. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposal for stage-1 boot loader for use with SecureBoot [Re: [Long] UEFI support]

2012-07-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
(and if that decision cannot be automated by malware), it might possibly be sufficient to keep it from being exploited and blacklisted. But perhaps there are formal requirements that I'm not aware of, that would still forbid this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
to help with 5(c), 6, and perhaps 3 (encouraging more coordinated development). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#679547: ITP: ben -- toolbox for Debian maintainers

2012-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
are lacking developers to match many of them. Ben (Hutchings). Would it be useful to have ben in devscripts instead of a separate package? -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
to have the proper headers installed.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions version numbering

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 14:09 +0300, Serge wrote: 2012/6/25 Ben Hutchings wrote: BTW, it's interesting that Fedora/CentOS use -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and they use it in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS. Presumably as a workaround for build systems that do not respect CPPFLAGS. I actually noticed

Re: Bug#679235: RFA: animals -- Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
/jackd2 again. It's now dead upstream, and support for any version of CELT would have become less and less useful during the lifetime of wheezy. Also, as I recall, there was an important security issue with no fix available. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before

Re: apt-get source gets a more recent version of linux than I can install

2012-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
? The latest one may not be available for your architecture on your current mirror yet. And FTBFS on i386. Fixed in today's 3.2.21-2. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert

Accepted linux-latest 45 (source all i386)

2012-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Description: linux-doc - Linux kernel specific documentation (meta-package) linux-doc-2.6 - Linux kernel specific documentation (dummy package) linux-headers-2.6-486 - Header files for Linux

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
. If other build systems or overriden rules don't use it, it's a bug. This can of course be worked around in debian/rules. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Re: Bug#678519: general: after about 1 month of uptime, routing of IPv6 packets is no longer possible, and IPv4 routing becomes slow and unpredictable. Rebooting brings all functionality back, and bac

2012-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
and follow-up questions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Accepted linux-tools 3.2.17-1 (source i386)

2012-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
-ker...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Closes: 568362 Description: libusbip-dev - USB device sharing system over IP network (development files) linux-kbuild-3.2 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 3.2 linux-tools-3.2 - Performance analysis tools for Linux 3.2 usbip

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
a maintainer script to automate, for example, installation of another package dependent on hardware configuration. All you can do is show a note/error prompting the user to do that. Which is rather sad. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
' and closely associated packages do.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:29 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Hello, On 2012-06-19 13:59, Tomas Pospisek wrote: This implies that an apt-get install library needs

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 23:47 +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:10:46 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 20:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: I want to announce restart-services here [1

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
trigger per service? I don't think that's a good idea. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
(and probably other user desktop sessions started by gdm3). -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
should send further questions to the comp.lang.c newsgroup, unless they're specific to development of the Debian distribution. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus

Accepted firmware-free 3.1 (source all)

2012-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
-By: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Description: firmware-linux-free - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel Closes: 555949 629730 Changes: firmware-free (3.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Update to linux-support 3.2.0-2 - Remove build-dependency, as this is only used when

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