Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 05:06:50PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: > I just uploaded 'bind8' and friends (sitting in NEW last I saw), with a > README that deprecates it. I'd be happy to upload a new 'bind' to TPU > with the deprecation in it as well, or we could consider pulling BIND8 > into testing.

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-12 Thread LaMont Jones
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:12:44PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Moritz Muehlenhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070111 19:31]: > About bind 8, I'm not so sure. Do the maintainers have any opinion about > bind 8? I just uploaded 'bind8' and friends (sitting in NEW last I saw), with a README that depreca

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Moritz Muehlenhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070111 19:31]: > I've asked for reasons to still ship Apache 1.3 a few months ago and > only received a vague "it still has it's use". I'm still curious why > it's needed. The same goes for bind8, only that I didn't receive a > sustantial reply at all... I

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/07 13:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:30:39PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Sure, but python2.5 is not really usable: almost all the python modules a= >>> re compiled only for

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:30:39PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> Sure, but python2.5 is not really usable: almost all the python modules a= > > re > >> compiled only for python2.4. For postgresql you are right and I'm wrong, > >> but I suppose that there are othe

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Sure, but python2.5 is not really usable: almost all the python modules a= > re >> compiled only for python2.4. For postgresql you are right and I'm wrong, >> but I suppose that there are other examples in the archive where the only= > a >> major release is released. >

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Hampson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > That got me wondering and it appears that Etch will ship with Apache > 1.3.34? Why? It is considered a legacy release by ASF? Is the Debian > security team really willing to support it for another 2-3 years? > I'm sure that there are other examples. (Funnily enough,

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > > Sure, but python2.5 is not really usable: almost all the python modules are > compiled only for python2.4. For postgresql you are right and I'm wrong, > but I suppose that there are other examples in the archive where the only

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-10 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hi Steinar, * 2007-01-10 20:45, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > We have both python2.4 and python2.5 in testing. Also, we have > postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1. I'm not sure if your examples are ideal > :-) Sure, but python2.5 is not really usable: almost all the python modules are compiled only

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-10 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:33:23PM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Why do we ship both bind 8 and bind 9 in etch? Sorry if the question is > stupid, but considering that we ship only one version of python, one > version of PostgreSQL, one version of Zope I do not see any obvious reason > to ship

Re: BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-10 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
* 2007-01-10 20:28, Florian Weimer wrote: > I recommend to add a note urging people to switch to BIND 9 (possibly > mentioning "check-names ignore", which is one of the larger hurdles > IIRC). Why do we ship both bind 8 and bind 9 in etch? Sorry if the question is stupid, but considering that we s

BIND 8 deprecation for the release notes

2007-01-10 Thread Florian Weimer
I recommend to add a note urging people to switch to BIND 9 (possibly mentioning "check-names ignore", which is one of the larger hurdles IIRC). The main reason is this bug: CVE-2006-0527 (BIND 4 (BIND4) and BIND 8 (BIND8), if used as a target forwarder, ...) - bind 1:8.4.7-1 (low)