Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On September 21, 2013 09:04:23 PM Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Kees Cook [130921 17:08]: > > In a theoretical sense, sure. In this particular case, why bother breaking > > it when it's a trivial 1 line fix? My original approach was to fix it in > > libc and do a mass bug filing. Everyone wins. If w

Re: gngb, hey debian games team

2013-09-22 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
You should not make assumptions on axis values, each controller needs to be calibrated to check for its specific axis range. In data sabato 21 settembre 2013 20.28.55, Adam Morissun ha scritto: > Hi. I see gngb still doesn't work with my gamepad, so I went looking for > the code I wrote a few

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/22/2013 05:31 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: > Charles' statement made me nervous because it sounds like he is saying > he's not interested in looking carefully enough What Charles wrote, was that he has too much work and not enough time, not that he is "not interested in looking carefully enough".

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13342 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: > I think that the only good solution is to engage with the R community and make > them change their practice of distributing data in binary format in the source > packages. Thats a maintainers job. Feel free to do so, we won't hold you back. > I think

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13340 March 1977, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> However, if the package is formally rejected by the FTP masters then I >>> will be happy to change it to ASCII SQL if required. >> Please include the source / preferred form for modification in the >> source, and create this postgres thing from that. >

Bug#724036: ITP: libdancer2-plugin-database-perl -- module for easy database connections for Dancer2 applications

2013-09-22 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdancer2-plugin-database-perl Version : 2.10 Upstream Author : David Precious * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Dancer

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 02:09 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On September 21, 2013 09:04:23 PM Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Kees Cook [130921 17:08]: > > > In a theoretical sense, sure. In this particular case, why bother breaking > > > it when it's a trivial 1 line fix? My original approach was

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On September 21, 2013 09:04:23 PM Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > The whole point of undefined behaviour in C is that the > > compiler/implementor/... does not have to care. > > I strongly suspect the "whole point" of undefined behaviour is simply that at > least two partie

Bug#724061: ITP: jsbsim -- the JSBSim flight dynamics model

2013-09-22 Thread Klee Dienes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Klee Dienes * Package name: jsbsim Version : 1.0~pre2 Upstream Author : * URL : http://jsbsim.org/ * License : LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : the JSBSim flight dynamics model JSBSim is an open sourc

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-22 Thread Jeff Epler
If "we" want to support additional semantics for sn?printf where the standard says "undefined", we should take care to specify what is going to be promised. I don't know whether "we" is Debian, or "we" is (e)glibc upstream. I also don't know exactly what is being proposed. Something like Whe

Re: Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

2013-09-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > The next point release for "wheezy" (7.2) is scheduled for Saturday > October 12th. Stable NEW will be frozen during the preceding weekend. Can you please clarify what is acceptable for uploads to proposed updates to get

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-22 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, I am an active tester/user for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For powerpc, ppc64, I - test most base packages on this architecture - test d-i on this architecture - follow debian-powerpc on at least a daily basis -

Re: Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

2013-09-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 21:33 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > The next point release for "wheezy" (7.2) is scheduled for Saturday > > October 12th. Stable NEW will be frozen during the preceding weekend. > > Can you please clarify wh

Bug#724249: ITP: ibniz -- IBNIZ is a virtual machine designed for extremely compact low-level audiovisual programs.

2013-09-22 Thread maxigas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: maxigas * Package name: ibniz Version : 1.18 Upstream Author : Ville-Matias Heikkila * URL : http://pelulamu.net/ibniz/ * License : zlib/libpng Programming Lang: C Description : IBNIZ is a virtual machine designe

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
tag 688251 patch thanks Le Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:57:34AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I would like to make the short-term clarification for the next revision of the > Policy. In its simplest form, it could be the addition of something like > "when > the combination of licenses requires

Re: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Charles Plessy wrote: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -5563,7 +5563,13 @@ Replaces: mail-transport-agent > > > > - A Built-Using field must list the corresponding source > + When the licensing terms of the incorporated parts require to provide > +

Bug#724270: ITP: bleachbit -- Free space and maintain privacy

2013-09-22 Thread Howard Chan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Howard Chan * Package name: bleachbit Version : 0.96 Upstream Author : Andrew Ziem * URL : http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Free space and maintain privac

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 20 Sep 2013, at 14:49, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > I mean, not really, right? I wouldn't write it if I didn't think so. > > If I want to use a .so, I want the ELF, but I want to modify it in C The classic case we all know well which doesn't map to this situation. > This just means we ship

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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