Bug#744834: ITP: ruby-kpeg -- KPeg is a simple PEG library for Ruby

2014-04-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-r...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ruby-kpeg Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Evan Phoenix * URL : https://github.com/evanphx/kpeg * License : BSD

Re: Danke für das beste OS der Welt, yup, and some grub/boot script suggestions

2014-04-15 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
Me2 :-) I have some suggestions: grub2 , I don't like its/its current integration, and the autogenerated files are very ugly - I used to use lilo ... sometimes grub fails with raid(even when debian says it has installed fully), auto updating grub after upgrading the system can fail sometimes (

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-04-14 17:01:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > But what I mean is that it's pointless to emit such a warning when the > > effect of the potential integer overflow is already visible, for > > instance in printf below: > > > m = d * C; > > printf ("%d\n", m); >

Re: bugs in MC (was "Why Debian")

2014-04-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:40:00 Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > • even if I disagree with maintainers (things like bugs > > in mc), I can mostly live with it (although, when I was > > m68k porter, some pissed me *seriously* off) […] > I see that all bugs in

Bug#744839: ITP: libmce-perl -- Many-Core Engine for Perl

2014-04-15 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmce-perl Version : 1.510 Upstream Author : Mario E. Roy * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/MCE * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Many-Core

Forming racoon/ipsec-tools maintainers group

2014-04-15 Thread Matt Grant
Hi All! Just emailing to tell you I have not forgotten this. This Easter I will have the time to organise this and 'turn the crank handles'. Cheers, Matt Grant -- Matt Grant, Debian and Linux Systems Administration and Consulting Mobile: 021 0267 0578 Email: m...@mattgrant.net.nz signature.

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On 04/11/2014 12:42, Ian Jackson wrote: > > What people expect is that the compiler compiles programs the way C > > was traditionally compiled. Actually, I think we need to go further. We need a programming language (with at least two compiler imple

Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi, I have posted the following idea on my blog [7] to get comments from people not on this list, but obviously this is the mailing list where the proposal should be discussed. :-) - Facing last week's Heartbleed [1] bug the need for improving the security of our systems became more apparent

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-15 Thread Mario Lang
Jonathan Dowland writes: > We go over the same ground over and over. I'm increasingly in favour of *no* > default. You must pick one from a list on install. Randomize the list if > necessary. The day Debian starts to randomize menu items I am going to stop using it. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian De

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
On 14/04/14 17:40, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Alberto Salvia Novella dixit: >Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? First of: why “instead”? Many developers are active in other distributions and/or operating systems. So am I. I came to Debian for a number of reasons: >

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Pirate Praveen gmail.com> writes: > I love democracy, where everyone has a say and have a chance to make > the changes they want This sentence is *so* wrong… bye, //mirabilos (usually part of the minority, no matter where) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Russ Allbery [140415 02:06]: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Nevertheless, with these mass filings where we add en masse the same > > option to many packages, I wonder if we are doing something wrong. > > Don't we use debhelper and CDBS to have reasonable defaults ? Are there > > more packages

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Balint Reczey [140415 12:01]: [..] > My proposal for serving those security-focused users is introducing a > new architecture targeting amd64 hardware, but with more security > related C/C++ features turned on for every package (currently hardening > has to be enabled by the maintainers in some

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > I think that as of today it would help more to fix various upstream > build tools to actually honor the build flags we (using > dpkg-buildflags) set. This would benefit both the regular > architectures and any hypothetical hardened a

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Bálint Réczey
2014-04-15 14:23 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise : > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > >> I think that as of today it would help more to fix various upstream >> build tools to actually honor the build flags we (using >> dpkg-buildflags) set. This would benefit both the regular >>

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/15/2014 06:00 PM, Balint Reczey wrote: > Hi, > > I have posted the following idea on my blog [7] to get comments from > people not on this list, but obviously this is the mailing list where > the proposal should be discussed. :-) > > - > > Facing last week's Heartbleed [1] bug the need

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/15/2014 06:00 PM, Balint Reczey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have posted the following idea on my blog [7] to get comments from >> people not on this list, but obviously this is the mailing list where >> the proposal should be discussed. :-)

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thorsten Glaser , 2014-04-15, 11:24: we need to go further. We need a programming language (with at least two compiler implementations), which I will call Ͻ, that looks like C so much that *every* C program¹ is also a valid Ͻ program, and *every* Ͻ program that does not make use of the additi

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 15/04/14 19:45, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Thorsten Glaser , 2014-04-15, 11:24: >> we need to go further. We need a programming language (with at least >> two compiler implementations), which I will call Ͻ, that looks like C >> so much that *every* C program¹ is also a valid Ͻ program, and >> *every*

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > The cases "m = d * C" and "m >= 0" are mostly the same, i.e. with the > same false positives in practice. So, there's no reason to provide a > warning for the second one only. I don't think the GCC authors are just being dumb here. There probably is a reason; it's just

Bug#744875: ITP: smemstat -- shared memory usage monitoring tool

2014-04-15 Thread Colin Ian King
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Ian King * Package name: smemstat Version : 0.01.04 Upstream Author : Colin King * URL : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/smemstat * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : shared memory usage mon

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Thorsten Glaser , 2014-04-15, 11:24: >> we need to go further. We need a programming language (with at least two >> compiler implementations), which I will call Ͻ, that looks like C so >> much that *every* C program¹ is also a valid Ͻ program, and *every* Ͻ >> program that

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:15:22AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > My proposal for serving those security-focused users is introducing a > > new architecture targeting amd64 hardware, but with more security > > related C/C++ features turned on for every package (currently hardening > > has to be e

Bug#744880: ITP: erlang-lager -- logging framework for Erlang

2014-04-15 Thread Philipp Huebner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Huebner * Package name: erlang-lager Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : 2011-2014 Basho Technologies, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/basho/lager * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Erlang Description

Bug#744882: ITP: erlang-goldrush -- small Erlang app that provides fast event stream processing

2014-04-15 Thread Philipp Huebner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Huebner * Package name: erlang-goldrush Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : 2012 Magnus Klaar * URL : https://github.com/DeadZen/goldrush * License : ISC Programming Lang: Erlang Description : small Erlang

Bug#744883: ITP: erlang-xmlrpc -- HTTP 1.1 compliant XML-RPC library for Erlang

2014-04-15 Thread Philipp Huebner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Huebner * Package name: erlang-xmlrpc Version : 0.2014.03.17 Upstream Author : 2003 Joakim Grebenö 2009-2014 Romuald du Song * URL : https://github.com/rds13/xmlrpc * License : ZLIB style P

Bug#744885: ITP: erlang-p1 -- set of Erlang libraries from ProcessOne

2014-04-15 Thread Philipp Huebner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Huebner * Package name: erlang-p1-* Version : all different Upstream Author : ProcessOne * URL : https://github.com/processone/ * License : GPL 2+, Apache 2.0, BSD 3-Clause, EPL 1.1, ... Programming Lang: C, Erl

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek , 2014-04-15, 11:07: But I don't imagine that you're going to get signoff on a dpkg "amd64-secure" architecture, "amd64-secure"? Why not "amd64-asbestos-free"? -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-15 Thread Roger Lynn
On 14/04/14 14:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-04-14 14:14:14 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> No, there is no optimisation in that case, so there is no warning. It only >> warns when it uses the knowledge that "(signed) integer overflow isn't >> possible" to optimise away some redundant co

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:25:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Steve Langasek writes: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:05:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> It's an interesting question whether we should just force dh-autoreconf > >> in debhelper unless the package maintainer explicitly tur

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:53:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:25:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Steve Langasek writes: > > > But I think we ought to switch to autoreconfing by default. > > Agreed, particularly given that we now have a good and fairly reliabl

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 04:36:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > As this will likely only be applied by default to packages updated to a new > debhelper compat level, action by the maintainer is still needed for this > change to take effect. It's trivial for you to fix this issue in your ow

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-15 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Mario Lang writes: > Jonathan Dowland writes: > >> We go over the same ground over and over. I'm increasingly in favour of *no* >> default. You must pick one from a list on install. Randomize the list if >> necessary. > > The day Debian starts to randomize menu items I am going to stop using > it

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.04.2014 02:12, schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 04:36:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : >> >> As this will likely only be applied by default to packages updated to a new >> debhelper compat level, action by the maintainer is still needed for this >> change to take effect.

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Wookey wrote: > or perhaps we should collectively decide that dh-autoreconf should > just be used everywhere unles there is a damn good reason not to? Yes, please. At least that's what I do for packages I have something to do with. It makes getting the benefit of upstream autotools fixes (

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:36:40AM +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > I have not so mixed feelings, but instead very clear feelings now about your > behaviour. You requested explicit information on the mass bug filing request > without reading the obvious channels yourself. Now *you* are reques

Re: Forming racoon/ipsec-tools maintainers group

2014-04-15 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 08:52:43PM +1200, Matt Grant wrote: > Just emailing to tell you I have not forgotten this. This Easter I will > have the time to organise this and 'turn the crank handles'. Sounds good, thanks Matt. You might have also noticed that I just pushed a new branch to the ipsec-