[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-37-g385c44b

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 385c44b12c22c4615d0a1df3f3a96ca660d6f026 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Dec 8 10:38:35 2011 +0100 doc-pkg-depends-on-main-pkg should also be triggered with Depends A mistake in the regex caused the

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! As you fellow backporter I took a quick glance at the hardening-wrapper package, and didn't spotted any problems so far (as in: I could create a backport, install it, and can still compile stuff). However, as I'm not very familiar with it, I'll ping the maintainers for their opinion. Also

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 08.12.2011 10:13, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: As you fellow backporter I took a quick glance at the hardening-wrapper package, and didn't spotted any problems so far (as in: I could create a backport, install it, and can still compile stuff). However, as I'm not very familiar

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-38-gb08ea61

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit b08ea6174d0b057cae166fc8d020873aede6886a Author: Evan Broder e...@ebroder.net Date: Thu Dec 8 11:21:43 2011 +0100 Check git and debian/changelog before showing dummy version number This should ensure that lintian

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Followup-For: Bug #650536 Hi, I was informed (and have verified) that hardening-check uses ldd(1). Unfortunately, ldd(1) appears to be (semi-)executing the binaries it is run on[1]. This smells like a CVE in the making, so would it be possible for you to update

Bug#651392: lintian: unversioned-copyright-format-uri references 404 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn

2011-12-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Severity: minor This is the current message for unversioned-copyright-format-uri: N: N:Format URI of the machine-readable copyright file is not versioned. N: N:Please use N:http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=revisi N:

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-39-g14a9bc5

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 14a9bc50d150bb5488b418aede339510997976cd Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Dec 8 12:24:05 2011 +0100 Updated the estimate for an archive-wide in the manual The new text is an overestimate. Current

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net, 2011-12-08, 12:06: I was informed (and have verified) that hardening-check uses ldd(1). Unfortunately, ldd(1) appears to be (semi-)executing the binaries it is run on[1]. This smells like a CVE in the making, AFAIUI, ldd in our libc is not vulnerable to

Bug#651332: lintian: unhelpful message if changes file not present

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-12-07 21:32, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Hi, * What led up to the situation? I have script that generates a private Debian package, builds it and runs lintian on the resulting changes file. I changed the name of

Re: [SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-40-g07cc7a1

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-12-08 15:34, Niels Thykier wrote: The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 07cc7a1cbef8d0bdebd9aa9aa68fce592f4511e5 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Dec 8 15:34:01 2011 +0100 Made direct_dependencies properly handle udebs

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-41-g92a5b55

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 92a5b55947ccdf72dd844052e75f58ef9f0936f9 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Dec 8 16:52:08 2011 +0100 file-info-helper: Skip non-files with .gz extension If file(1) says that a non-file is not a .gz

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-42-g0dd28d6

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 0dd28d6e5cb074cf42e60dca19e3c5213f8f96e7 Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Dec 8 17:00:28 2011 +0100 Check etc/php5/conf.d/file.ini is a file before opening it Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier

Bug#651332: lintian: unhelpful message if changes file not present

2011-12-08 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Niels, I think the following steps should reproduce it: 1.) Take a package and run lintian against it. 2.) Then delete the package and but still run lintian against it. On 08/12/11 14:05, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2011-12-07 21:32, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4

Bug#651332: lintian: unhelpful message if changes file not present

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-12-08 22:57, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Niels, I think the following steps should reproduce it: 1.) Take a package and run lintian against it. 2.) Then delete the package and but still run lintian against it. [...] Sadly I still

[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.4-43-gf73500e

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit f73500ebf5510212691c9d9bf33ba4226f24f65a Author: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net Date: Thu Dec 8 23:06:41 2011 +0100 Allow fonts in packages starting with fonts- This completes the fix for #646838.

Processed: limit source to lintian, tagging 651045, tagging 650701

2011-12-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: #lintian (2.5.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * checks/files: #+ [JW,NT] Skip Multi-Arch: same check of gzip files if their # install path contains the architecture. (Closes: #650665) #+ [JW] Fixed a false-negative

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Kees Cook
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:20:05AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2011-12-02 01:33, Kees Cook wrote: 1) With these build tests added, all the other internal lintian tests need to either: a) add the new warnings to their tags file, or b) have all their builds adjusted to

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 12:06:37PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: I was informed (and have verified) that hardening-check uses ldd(1). Unfortunately, ldd(1) appears to be (semi-)executing the binaries it is run on[1]. This smells like a CVE in the making, so would it be possible for you to

Bug#650536: [new check] test for missing hardening build flags

2011-12-08 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:50:19AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Currently ldd is used to discover which libc the binaries is linked to, in order to read symbol from the libc library. But this won't work, even when using readelf, for foreign architecture binaries, for the simple reason that such