GitLab on salsa.d.o without security support

2023-12-01 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi The GitLab on salsa.debian.org identifies itself as 16.1.5. This version is way outside of the three month security support schedule. Upstream supports the latest three version (so currently 16.6, 16.5 and 16.4) at every one time.[1] So right now we are running a mission critical service

Re: Evolving away from source package realms

2022-10-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 07:25:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > This is probably my security brain from my day job, but I would prefer to > be able to drop permissions that I'm not currently using, as long as I can > get them back easily. It reduces the blast radius of mistakes and > compromises.

Re: (Lack of) GDPR compliance in Debian

2022-03-12 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Adrian On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:27:03AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Out of curiousity I started looking at various aspects of GDPR > compliance in Debian, and what I saw in the Privacy Policy[2] made me > worry that the lawyer has not yet been involved enough in ensuring that > privacy in

Re: Debian python package bytecode compatibility

2021-09-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:37:15PM +0530, Manoj Singh wrote: > For FIPS(federal information processing standards), required all python > code in bytecode format(.pyc) instead of plain source .py. All Python source is compiled into bytecode during installation. Bastian -- We have found all life

Re: Debian.net Team

2021-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Jonathan On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 06:21:10PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > * Have accounts with the major hosting providers so that > they can also create new instances whenever there's a > new request from a developer I opened an issue for the AWS side of that:

Re: Results of the salsa sprint

2020-12-01 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Steve On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 03:53:24PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Have people been pushing the other way - to remove the suffix? Just > curious. That was me. It's because of the maintenance overhead. That name restriction isn't a feature of upstream GitLab. It requires to function -

Re: Debian.net Team

2020-09-01 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Jonathan On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 06:21:10PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > The services ran under the debian.net domain are typically run by > individual Debian Developers or small teams, and range from a toy > service to something that's short lived or even a service that's even > considered

Re: Creating a Salsa account

2020-07-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Please let us known what you choose ( IRC , dummy account or friend ) > Letting known "fixed" is also fine. It's fixed now. I also tried to document the problem in question:

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-10 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Luca On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:18:58PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > - Salsa, how should it work together. > Gitlab can use OIDC as an OmniAuth provider. And here the problems begin. Sure, just using it as OmniAuth provider works. But this only provides authentication. But, as Sam

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Zhu On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:50:22PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > 1. Can you still keep the "-guest" enforcement, so it's still easy to > recognize who is DD or not on salsa? No. The guest suffix was meant to avoid collisions with Debian accounts. And the tool used to enforce it is

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Paul On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 03:20:52PM +, Paul Wise wrote: > It sounds like the answer is no, but does Salsa, Keycloak or > LemonLDAP::NG support TLS client certs? No, Salsa does not support TLS client certs. > So it sounds like Debian would be switching our SSO authentication >

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Luca On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:09:38PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > That said, please consider an approach that would see keycloak used as > an idenitity broker, allowing external users to create accounts using > social identities that are then promoted to full Debian identities (in > LDAP)

Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-06 Thread Bastian Blank
Dear Debian fellows Enrico (for NM and sso.debian.org) and I (for Salsa) intend to implement the following plan. At the same time we declare the following services as EOL: - sso.debian.org and - parts of the Salsa self service interface. We asked DPL, NM, DSA and the Salsa admins already for

Re: are Debian mentors nuts? the DebConf scandal

2019-12-28 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Matthew On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 04:59:27AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Just in case anyone's wondering - I checked with Mary-Anne Wolf (who I > met at Libreplanet some years ago) and she didn't send this mail. > Someone faked her identity. This mail was sent via the same way as the

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Michael On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 04:41:41PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > - GitHub takes efforts to provide root cause analysis & lessons learned We are all volunteers, which is not the case for GitHub employees. So thank you for volunteering to help the Salsa admins with com

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Michael On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 02:49:32AM -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote: > - It's significantly more stable > + I've seen "GitLab is not responding" more times than I can keep track of > + I've also seen a large number of 500 and 504 errors (at least 1x/wk) We have around 0,1% failure

Re: State of Debian cloud accounts

2019-08-24 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks A small update on the current state. On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 11:12:53AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > For AWS this change could not be finished in time for the Buster > release. We have contracts and accounts ready. However Amazon did not > yet manage to associate this

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:59:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Big fat enormous NO! gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our > packaging: quilt. Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the > impression that if we dropped the VCS-in-VCS approach, there'd be no need > for most

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 01:46:36AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 7/23/19 11:59 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Big fat enormous NO! gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our > > packaging: quilt. Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the > > impression that if we dropped the

State of Debian cloud accounts

2019-07-05 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I would like to share with you the state of our new cloud provider relations and accounts for Debian. At the last cloud team sprint, we decided to switch how we want to handle contractual relations with cloud providers. In the past they where either held by individuals (for AWS) or

Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:50:04PM +0100, Gilles Filippini wrote: > Are these incompatible changes from security updates advertised somewhere? > > On a related matter we've just experienced at $work a scientific > software breakage after a recent jessie security upgrade. Jessie does not longer

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:02:18AM +, Peter Palfrader wrote: > You could argue (and I have), that that file-based redirects are not > ideal if your update is downloading lots of little files. The latency > hit of many redirects is non-trivial. My last test showed problems with httpredir

Re: Debian SIP feedback?

2014-02-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:15:42PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: I'm just wondering if people have further feedback about the Debian SIP service I was not able to get it work with telepathy from Jessie. It always aborts the TLS connection with an Unknown CA alert (and does not inform the user

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) = The estimation is a bit too large for a decent desktop machine. 1. performing more

Re: linux-libre - are we collaborating with them?

2013-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
[Cc ignored] On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 01:32:34PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Anyone play with the linux-libre[1] project? They are fanatic. Does the kernel team know about this stuff? Yes. See #484365. It seems like we're

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-05-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: And here's my follow-up with some of the answers: On 05/21/2011 08:00 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: You realize that you just leaked d-private without asking first? They can already declare Debian a supported system. They have to do

Re: buildd/porter/maintainer roles again

2010-07-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:16:59PM +, Clint Adams wrote: I'd like the people in the buildd-admins-are-doing-the-right-thing camp to describe the ideal workflow for solving architecture-specific issues with the ksh[0] package. [0] https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=ksh The maintainer

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:28:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Last I heart s390 planed to drop 31bit support and go fully 64bit. This was the plan. However I don't know if it is the best solution. The fact is: only Debian and SuSE still supports a complete 31bit userland. RHEL is

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:54:59PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:16:32AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Negotiate auth does not provide confidentiality or integrity protection different to the normal use of kerberos. Well, ok, but you're negotiating *authentication

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:19:32PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, having your browser spontaneously authenticate you to any system keyed in your local realm or in a realm with which you have cross-realm trust is something of a leak of personal information. This may change in the future. The

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: - install sendfile/saft on all machines so you can do sendfile foo.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] The crypto stuff could be alleviated by using ipsec between all our servers. But that works even less well than you'd expect.

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:46:16PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: The crypto stuff could be alleviated by using ipsec between all our servers. But that works even less well than

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:48:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: (for some infathomable reason, the firefox developers consider Negotiate authentication to be unsafe with untrusted and/or non-SSL hosts. Dunno why that is, and never saw a compelling argument...) Negotiate auth does not provide

Re: DEP1: how to do an NMU

2008-06-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:41:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: [1] With one exception: mails with large attachments may be accepted by the BTS, but not reach the maintainer. For example, lists.d.o has a size limit, while bugs.d.o does not (#475682). You have to make a point somewhere. Everything

Re: DEP1: how to do an NMU

2008-06-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:22:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: 5.11.1 When and how to do an NMU I propose to add NMUs are usually not appropriate for team-maintained packages. Consider sending a patch to the BTS instead. to the bullet list. And we are they not able to respond to the bug

Re: NMU versioning

2008-04-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:16:28PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Mike Hommey [Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:54:59 +0200]: FWIW, I think NMUing a package shouldn't end up with a sourceful upload but should instead have a .diff.gz, whether it's a native package or not. 100% agreed. (Assuming you mean a

Re: Another level of agression ?

2007-05-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:38:24AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: I can understand the latter. However, maybe it was just a mistake and waldi didn't want to remove Sven but accidently removed one line too much or something? He'll probably speak up and explain things. I already said that I can't

Re: Dropping sparc32 for Lenny (was: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.21-[23])

2007-05-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: - sparc32 deprecation? No fix yet for the cmpxchg problem. For now I only want to disable it. In that thread there was some opposition to the idea, but I've not seen anybody making the commitment to maintain sparc32, so dropping it

Re: Testing kernel version

2007-03-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:22:59PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Note that the nvidia drivers don't seem to compile with = 2.6.19, due to linux/config.h being renamed to linux/autoconf.h (I think). The direct usage of linux/config.h is discuraged since .12 or so. Bastian -- Insufficient facts

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:04:10PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: (BTW, I've recently offered a better sparc machine for use by the project, it's a prospective solution for that problem.) See this list some time ago. Debian have a Sun T2000 available. Bastian -- Love sometimes expresses itself in

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:49:37PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: I propose to set up a lintian.debian.org-equivalent for sparc on this machine, but this requires 10GB of diskspace and a local mirror. Tell me if you think it is possible/a good idea. Define local mirror? There is a mirror one

Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:24:24PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Don't porters work on DSA-controlled machines? Nope. They are controlled by the porters themself. Bastian -- Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. -- Spock, The Squire of Gothos, stardate 2124.5 --