Re: state of security hardening build flag efforts

2012-04-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: > Uoti Urpala writes: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> +pie causes a fairly ordinary regular binary (gnubg) to die with a bus > >> error immediately upon execution. If someone could figure out why and > >> whether it's a general class of problems or something peculiar to that >

Bug#670065: ITP: pear-symfony-project-channel -- PEAR Symfony Project channel definition file

2012-04-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: pear-symfony-project-channel Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Goirand * URL : http://pear.symfony-project.com/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: XML Description : PEAR Symfo

Bug#670052: ITP: libpostproc -- FFmpeg derived postprocessing library

2012-04-22 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Reinhard Tartler * Package name: libpostproc Version : ? Upstream Author : Michael Niedermayer (michae...@gmx.at) * URL : http://git.videolan.org/?p=libpostproc.git;a=summary * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C Des

Bug#670041: ITP: libbiblio-thesaurus-perl -- Biblio::Thesaurus - Perl extension for managing ISO thesaurus

2012-04-22 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nuno Carvalho * Package name: libbiblio-thesaurus-perl Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Alberto Simões * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Biblio-Thesaurus/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Des

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2012-04-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 20:03:27 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > If a package is marked as "Multi-Arch: same", files with the same > name have to be (byte-to-byte) identical across all architectures. > Unfortunately, not all packages obey this requirement. I set up a > page to track violators: > > htt

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:49:08AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > If we would converge on a good rule of thumb to replace the nth NMU in > a row to a QA orphaning, then I believe that the updated NMU section > in the Developers Reference would then stay unchanged for a long time. I do see value in

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy , 2012-04-22, 11:49: The point of NMUs is *helping* a maintainer which, for different reasons, is temporarily unable to fix specific issues in their packages. If the NMU-er keeps that principle in mind, everything else descends more or less naturally. Hi Stefano, much of you