Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag 13 April 2010 20:11:34 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Or are you saying that inetd implementations use IPV6_ADDRFORM before > running the underlying program? (All of the ones in Debian?) If so, > there's some missing connecting of the dots in your reply. I guess not all of them. OTOH, not a

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler writes: > I guess not all of them. OTOH, not all of them might use AF_INET6 > sockets for IPv4 connections (the two-sockets approach is always > possible when using IPV6_V6ONLY socket option). > At least xinetd uses IPV6_ADDRFORM although that socket option is > already deprecate

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:20 -0400, James Vega wrote: >> So I started some research why this error is shown. FPC - generally - >> does >> not link any lib statically, so this ZLib error is bit strange. >> How does Lintian detect the embedded zlib in binaries? > > From /usr/share/lintian/checks/bi

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > James Vega writes: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:22:55PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >>> Cause binaries generated by the FPC (FreePascalCompiler) produce the >>> Lintian error "embedded-zlib", I cannot upload a new version of a >>> package I maintain which overrides this

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
James Vega writes: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:22:55PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> Cause binaries generated by the FPC (FreePascalCompiler) produce the >> Lintian error "embedded-zlib", I cannot upload a new version of a >> package I maintain which overrides this error. (It's not allowed to

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery dixit: >>> architectures which are expected to be part of Debian. Debian has >>> needed to adapt to BSD behavior, non-standard or not, since the project >>> decided to include the kfreebsd architectures. That's part of porting. > >> What is wrong with porting kfreebsd behaivour inst

Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:22:55PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Hello! > Cause binaries generated by the FPC (FreePascalCompiler) produce the > Lintian error "embedded-zlib", I cannot upload a new version of a package I > maintain which overrides this error. (It's not allowed to override it at >

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Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread David Paleino
Hello, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Does someone know more about Lintians way of finding embedded ZLibs? >From /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries: if ($info->field('source') ne 'zlib' and $info->field('source') ne 'klibc' and $strings =~ /(?:in|de)flate (?:\d[ \w.\-]{1,20}[\w.\-])/m) { tag "

How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?

2010-04-13 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hello! Cause binaries generated by the FPC (FreePascalCompiler) produce the Lintian error "embedded-zlib", I cannot upload a new version of a package I maintain which overrides this error. (It's not allowed to override it at time) So I started some research why this error is shown. FPC - generally

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
"John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> My understanding is that part (although certainly not all) of the >> reason behind the default change is consistency with the kfreebsd >> architectures which are expected to be part of Debian. Debian has >> needed to adapt to BSD behavior,

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Salvo Tomaselli [Tue, Apr 13 2010, 12:05:08PM]: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 11:33:15 George Danchev wrote: > > It is legit to change a default value (regardless what standards says, if > > you can't change a default value it it then a hard-coded one), and it is > > pretty lame to assume

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Russ Allbery wrote: > > My understanding is that part (although certainly not all) of the reason > behind the default change is consistency with the kfreebsd architectures > which are expected to be part of Debian. Debian has needed to adapt to > BSD behavior, non-standard or not, since the proje

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler writes: > Zitat von Russ Allbery : >> It's not an assumption. It's reality that one has to write code >> against, because different platforms do different things. Even if you >> could remove the option from the Linux kernel (retroactively, changing >> time to remove all the syst

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Salvo Tomaselli writes: > Solaris is a little bit tricky, i would be very careful talking about > it. Thanks for your caution and concern about what I might or might not understand, but I have been administering Solaris systems and writing code for Solaris for 15 years. > After having enabled t

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Re: document meaning of transition?

2010-04-13 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Thomas Koch wrote: > I'm reading debian-devel to get to know all that's needed to become a Debian > Developer. I noticed, that I did not find any documentation about transitions > or their workflow and that I can only guess, what this thread is about. > Maybe this is something that would be wo

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Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 11:33:15 George Danchev wrote: > It is legit to change a default value (regardless what standards says, if > you can't change a default value it it then a hard-coded one), and it is > pretty lame to assume a default value will never be changed. This assumption > also fails

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread George Danchev
Quoting "Salvo Tomaselli" : On Tuesday 13 April 2010 07:46:10 Russ Allbery wrote: It's not an assumption. It's reality that one has to write code against, because different platforms do different things. Even if you could remove the option from the Linux kernel (retroactively, changing time t

Re: document meaning of transition?

2010-04-13 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi Raphael, I'm reading debian-devel to get to know all that's needed to become a Debian Developer. I noticed, that I did not find any documentation about transitions or their workflow and that I can only guess, what this thread is about. Maybe this is something that would be worth to be written

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von Russ Allbery : Hendrik Sattler writes: It's a trade-off with a different goal in mind. So what. Both settings of bindv6only are if you cannot assume standard behaviour. Maybe we should patch this option _out_ of the linux kernel to get rid of the assumption that the default may be c

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 07:46:10 Russ Allbery wrote: > It's not an assumption. It's reality that one has to write code against, > because different platforms do different things. Even if you could remove > the option from the Linux kernel (retroactively, changing time to remove > all the systems