Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
Toni Mueller wrote: [...] > That turns smaller adjustments in applications into > developing entirely different interfaces for each application, while > GnuTLS itself still lacks a lot of features. [...] Do you have any reference for this? I have not followed this closely but historically GnuTLS

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mattia, On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:26:30AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Yesterday I touched another package without the debian/source/format file. > It was sad: I had to repackage the entire upstream tarball to switch from .xz > to > .gz only to make dpkg happy and recognize it as non-native

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:26:30AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo a écrit : > > In fact I'm wondering what is the rationale to stay with the 1.0 format, given > all the benefits of the 3.0 (quilt) format: Hi Mattia, I am not a big fan of the 3.0 (quilt) format because it imposes a patch system. In partic

let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-14 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Yesterday I touched another package without the debian/source/format file. It was sad: I had to repackage the entire upstream tarball to switch from .xz to .gz only to make dpkg happy and recognize it as non-native. For me this is a nonsense. Lintian has a info tag for this for a lot of time: http

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeff Epler wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > I use apt dist-upgrade normally and then, periodically, run: > > dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{ print $1 }' \ > > | xargs dpkg --purge > > > > This is obviously somewhat unsafe. It would be neat to have a tool that > > would

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Dimitri John Ledkov writes: > Huh, I'm not quite sure that multiple hashes actually gain us anything > at all in terms of compromisation, since ultimately all our archive > metadata is protected by a single hash only. > Whilst replacing individual files & simultaneously matching multiple > hash

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 14 July 2014 20:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> * Peter Palfrader , 2014-07-14, 20:25: >> >>The basic idea is that it's much harder to come up with a >> >>simultaneoush hash collision with both SHA-1 and SHA-2 than >> >>breaking either of them

Bug#754847: ITP: golang-nfnt-resize -- Image resizing library for Go

2014-07-14 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tonnerre LOMBARD * Package name: golang-nfnt-resize Version : 0.0~git20140715 Upstream Author : Jan Schlicht * URL : http://github.com/nfnt/resize/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Image resiz

Re: node-webkit

2014-07-14 Thread Leo Iannacone
Hi Fernando, AFAIK nobody in JavaScript Team is working on. Consider to join us[0] if you want to package it. Cheers! Leo. [0] - https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Steven Chamberlain writes: > So, merely as a result of the licensing, we could have a fascinating > situation whereby: > * BSD-licensed software contemplates switching from OpenSSL to LibreSSL > * GNU-licensed software keeps using OpenSSL with license exception, or > maybe someday switches to Gnu

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/07/14 21:08, Toni Mueller wrote: >> > You forget one of the big problems with OpenSSL that LibreSSL doesn't >> > fix: the license. > Granted. Due to the amount of inherited code, it can't. We'll see how > things evolve as the amount of inherited code will dwindle. So, merely as a result of t

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL (addendum)

2014-07-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:22:49PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > OpenSSL was part of OpenBSD before they created the LibreSSL fork, so > > how isn't OpenSSL part of the OpenBSD track record? > > it is in the way that they include i

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Jeroen, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:22:49PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:46:45 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Ok, but for whatever reason, they have an imho not as shiny track > > record, as has OpenBSD. Which is no wonder, given all the revelations we > > have had rece

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Peter Palfrader , 2014-07-14, 20:25: > >>The basic idea is that it's much harder to come up with a > >>simultaneoush hash collision with both SHA-1 and SHA-2 than > >>breaking either of them independently. > > > >ISTR reading papers that put this "much har

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Nathan Schulte wrote: > "ASCII hex" encodes 4 bits as 8 (or 7. but really 8.), as each ASCII > character is a nibble of the digest; that's a 100% increase (factor > of 2) over the bare digest (or a "raw mapping" of 8 bits of digest > to an 8 bit character set). The figures giv

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk writes: > You might have had this paper in mind: > https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto2004/31520306/multicollisions.pdf > Quoting §4: “If F and G are good iterated hash functions with no attack > better than the generic birthday paradox attack, we claim that the hash > function F||G ob

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Peter Palfrader , 2014-07-14, 20:25: The basic idea is that it's much harder to come up with a simultaneoush hash collision with both SHA-1 and SHA-2 than breaking either of them independently. ISTR reading papers that put this "much harder" into doubt. But I can't find those references, a

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Nathan Schulte
Jeff Epler wrote: First, I tried encoding the various digests as base64 or base93, rather than hex. In each case, the file grew in size; base93 was the worst. Are you sure you performed this calculation correctly? "ASCII hex" encodes 4 bits as 8 (or 7. but really 8.), as each ASCII character

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Palfrader writes: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Using multiple hashes gives us some theoretical robustness against a >> break in one of the hash functions provided that all clients check all >> the hashes and the hashes would fail independently (which is likely). > I would

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Thomas, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:52:24AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/12/2014 08:46 PM, Toni Mueller wrote: > > As libressl is currently under > > heavy development, it is imho not to be expected to have that stable ABI > > you are asking for. > > Well, I don't agree with this view.

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > ابراهیم محمدی writes: > > > Isn't a single (rather small) hash value enough for almost all users? > > Using multiple hashes gives us some theoretical robustness against a break > in one of the hash functions provided that all clients check all the > ha

node-webkit

2014-07-14 Thread Fernando Toledo
is somebody working on node-webkit packaging? https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit -- Fernando Toledo Dock Sud BBS http://bbs.docksud.com.ar telnet://bbs.docksud.com.ar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
ابراهیم محمدی writes: > Isn't a single (rather small) hash value enough for almost all users? Using multiple hashes gives us some theoretical robustness against a break in one of the hash functions provided that all clients check all the hashes and the hashes would fail independently (which is l

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread ابراهیم محمدی
Isn't a single (rather small) hash value enough for almost all users? On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Food for thought: > Which fields take up most space in Packages.xz[0]? > > (whole file) 6662.0 KiB 100.0% > SHA256 1463.8 KiB 22.0% > SHA1

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 09:52:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I use apt dist-upgrade normally and then, periodically, run: > > dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{ print $1 }' \ > | xargs dpkg --purge > > This is obviously somewhat unsafe. It would be neat to have a tool

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Jeff Epler
I performed a few little experiments, too. First, I tried encoding the various digests as base64 or base93, rather than hex. In each case, the file grew in size; base93 was the worst. Eliminating all the headers (e.g., replacing Package: foo with simply foo) saved 3.2%. Replacing each one with

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 02:09:55PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > I plan to try and get them to use symbol versioning, at least on > > > those platforms that support it. This will probably be jus

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 02:09:55PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I plan to try and get them to use symbol versioning, at least on > > those platforms that support it. This will probably be just like > > Thank you. > > > the patch currentl

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-14 18:52 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes: > >> * Running dist-upgrade without --purge will keep packages in 'rc' >> state around, which a later APT call will not even recognise; >> you need to manually "dpkg --purge pkg1 pkg2 ..." to get rid >> of them > > I u

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I plan to try and get them to use symbol versioning, at least on > those platforms that support it. This will probably be just like Thank you. > the patch currently in Debian. I don't plan to add multiple > versions of a symbol to try and keep the same

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > * Running dist-upgrade without --purge will keep packages in 'rc' > state around, which a later APT call will not even recognise; > you need to manually "dpkg --purge pkg1 pkg2 ..." to get rid > of them I use apt dist-upgrade normally and then, periodically, run:

Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
Food for thought: Which fields take up most space in Packages.xz[0]? (whole file) 6662.0 KiB 100.0% SHA256 1463.8 KiB 22.0% SHA1938.9 KiB 14.1% Description-md5 794.3 KiB 11.9% MD5sum 752.4 KiB 11.3% Depends 473.0 KiB7.1%

Re: Debconf - how to run a packaging workshop

2014-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 04:46:54PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > I've agreed to give a one day Debian packaging workshop at $dayjob aimed at > sysadmins and developers, and I'd be interested in hearing from those who > have already run similar sessions to get advice/tips for how to approa

Debconf - how to run a packaging workshop

2014-07-14 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Hello, I've agreed to give a one day Debian packaging workshop at $dayjob aimed at sysadmins and developers, and I'd be interested in hearing from those who have already run similar sessions to get advice/tips for how to approach such a thing. Would there be any interest at attending/contributing

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/14/2014 10:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > z...@debian.org wrote: >> On 07/13/2014 09:48 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> >>> Well, it kind of is. Because those versioned symbols in openssl come >>> from a debian patch, afaict. So while debian may be fine (as long as all >>> build-rdeps have been re

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
z...@debian.org wrote: >On 07/13/2014 09:48 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: >> >> Well, it kind of is. Because those versioned symbols in openssl come >> from a debian patch, afaict. So while debian may be fine (as long as all >> build-rdeps have been rebuilt since openssl got those versioned >> symbols),

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> I would like to make it co-installable with OpenSSL, but in general, > this should be a drop-in replacement until APIs really diverge in a > visible way. Yes, it would provide 'openssl', but I intend to place them > into a different directory, so you might have to use LD_PATH to get > them. That

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
bofh80 dixit: >"apt-get --purge dist-upgrade" > How does this now translate to over the new apt full-upgrade? I do not use “the new apt ” anything command. It is purely optional, and you can use apt-cache and apt-get as you are used to. >"apt-get --purge dist-upgrade --auto-remove pkgtoinstall p

Bug#754804: ITP: python-flask-httpauth -- Basic and Digest HTTP authentication for Flask routes

2014-07-14 Thread Martín Ferrari
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martín Ferrari" * Package name: python-flask-httpauth Version : 2.2.1 Upstream Author : Miguel Grinberg * URL : https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/flask-httpauth/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 13 juillet 2014 à 15:28 +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > > Moving them to apache2 package would mean you won't have to move them > > again in the upgrade to apache 2.4, but it would create a new and > > circular dependency of apache2.2-common on apache2. Given that > > apache2.2-common alre

Re: m68k too slow for https? Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
h01ger wrote: >On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> >Furthermore, we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that >> >only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be >> >redirected). >> This means that requests from wget (since it switched from Open

Re: m68k too slow for https? Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:36:10AM +0100, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > If Debian stops supporting embedded platforms, it stops being a universal > operating system. FSVO universal. I think this is not a good argument unless/until we have some more-or-less common and official agreement about what does

Re: m68k too slow for https? Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-14 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:16:01AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > am I getting this right, that there are architectures which are too slow to > use https??? if so: "wow"... This seems likely, especially for embedded platforms where power is a massive constraint. > (And, if that's the case, I don

m68k too slow for https? Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >Furthermore, we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that > >only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be > >redirected). > This means that requests from wget (since it switched from OpenSSL to > GnuTL

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 14.07.2014, 08:49 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > Kibi wrote: > >Joachim Breitner (2014-07-13): > >>Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > >> >> [10]https://www.debian.org/intro/organization > >>not really helpful. It links to > >> [11]https://build

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
h01ger wrote: >I've never used "upgrade --purge" _in one step_ and I don't think it's a >particularily smart idea at all. But if people want to shoot themselves in The --purge is a no-op with "upgrade". But I normally use "apt-get --purge dist-upgrade" both to upgrade across distros and to stay

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Kibi wrote: >Joachim Breitner (2014-07-13): >>Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: >> >> [10]https://www.debian.org/intro/organization >>not really helpful. It links to >> [11]https://buildd.debian.org/ >> from where no information about how to query for rebuilds can be

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Arno, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014, at 13:17, Arno Töll wrote: > Hello, > > we've got a problem with Apache that causes problems during upgrades > (e.g. #716880, #752922, #711925). In short, the issue is that Apache 2.4 > changed ABIs, so that we need to ensure that dpkg properly removes > packages li