Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

[Bastian Blank]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:45:16PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract which
> relaxed the first clause to only include __software__ running on the
> Host CPU, I would enthusiastically vote for such a measure.

I doubt that this a usable definition.

Do you think that the provision that a program is pushed into another
generic purpose cpu should always make them free? An imaginal system can
include several CPU types:
- Host CPU (lets say the Power cores of a Cell processor)
- Slave CPU (the SPUs of a Cell processor, different instruction set
  and ABI then the host)
- GPU (current NVidia and ATI chips can be filled with rather generic
  programs to do vector operations)
- device driving CPU (e.g. the MIPS cores of a broadcom network chip)

Only the last ones are usualy filed by the OS with a firmware and then
started.

Bastian

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Bug#510408: ITP: biew -- console hex viewer/editor with disassembler

[Michel Loos]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michel Loos 


* Package name: biew
  Version : 5.7.1
  Upstream Author : Nick Kurshev 
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/biew/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : console hex viewer/editor with disassembler

BIEW (Binary vIEW) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in 
editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight 
AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview 
of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)



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Bug#510425: ITP: fookebox -- A jukebox-style web-frontend to mpd

[Stefan Ott]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefan Ott 


* Package name: fookebox
  Version : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Stefan Ott 
* URL : http://fookebox.googlecode.com/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: PHP
  Description : A jukebox-style web-frontend to mpd

fookebox is a jukebox-style web-frontend to mpd that can be used as a
keyboard-less jukebox or as a powerful mpd control frontend.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (750, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)



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Bug#510426: ITP: fookebox -- A jukebox-style web-frontend to mpd

[Stefan Ott]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefan Ott 


* Package name: fookebox
  Version : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Stefan Ott 
* URL : http://fookebox.googlecode.com/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: PHP
  Description : A jukebox-style web-frontend to mpd

fookebox is a jukebox-style web-frontend to mpd that can be used as a
keyboard-less jukebox or as a powerful mpd control frontend.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (750, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)



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Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:01:44PM -0800, Nicholas Breen wrote:
> While fixing one of the affected packages, I discovered that it was
> using similarly problematic syntax to act as a strcat replacement of the
> form 'sprintf(buf, "%s\n", buf)', which that regexp didn't catch.  I
> can't imagine that's a common mistake, but it's easy enough to match on
> as well:
> 
>   pcregrep -M 'sprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*[,)]'

Oh!  Good catch, thank you.  I've started a re-run with the regex changed.
So far, it's already caught new stuff.  I'll post updated details once it
has finished.

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Re: Bug#510408: ITP: biew -- console hex viewer/editor with disassembler

[Faidon Liambotis]

Michel Loos wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Michel Loos 
> 
> * Package name: biew
>   Version : 5.7.1
>   Upstream Author : Nick Kurshev 
> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/biew/
> * License : GPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description : console hex viewer/editor with disassembler
biew was already part of the archive in the past and it was, in fact,
released with etch.

See #460636 for the bug that requested its removal.

That isn't to say that you shouldn't package it; I just think that you
should be aware of it.

Regards,
Faidon


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Re: Bug#510408: ITP: biew -- console hex viewer/editor with disassembler

[Michel Loos]

Em Qui, 2009-01-01 às 21:52 +0200, Faidon Liambotis escreveu:
> Michel Loos wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Michel Loos 
> > 
> > * Package name: biew
> >   Version : 5.7.1
> >   Upstream Author : Nick Kurshev 
> > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/biew/
> > * License : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description : console hex viewer/editor with disassembler
> biew was already part of the archive in the past and it was, in fact,
> released with etch.
> 
> See #460636 for the bug that requested its removal.
> 
> That isn't to say that you shouldn't package it; I just think that you
> should be aware of it.
> 
> Regards,
> Faidon

Thanks, I am aware of that. 
It happens that I am one of the few biew users, and perceived today, 
on upgrade to lenny, 
that it is no more part of the distribution.

Michel.


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Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Kees Cook  wrote:

> Oh!  Good catch, thank you.  I've started a re-run with the regex changed.
> So far, it's already caught new stuff.  I'll post updated details once it
> has finished.

Could this test be added to lintian?

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Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

[Russ Allbery]

"Paul Wise"  writes:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Kees Cook  wrote:

>> Oh!  Good catch, thank you.  I've started a re-run with the regex
>> changed.  So far, it's already caught new stuff.  I'll post updated
>> details once it has finished.

> Could this test be added to lintian?

The thread so far seems to indicate the false positive rate isn't great.
People usually find Lintian checks with a lot of false positives rather
annoying.  It can be worth it if the problem is sufficiently severe, but
it always makes me nervous to add.

We could possibly add an experimental tag, though, to get an idea of what
the false positive rate looks like.  We're trying that with a few other
ones at the moment.

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Note on bugs filed on source packages

[Don Armstrong]

Some of you have noticed that the BTS's handling of bugs against
source packages has changed slightly, and is still changing.

The gist of the change is that internally, bugs assigned to source
packages will be indicated by prefixing the package name with 'src:'.
That is, if the bug is assigned to the source package foo, the bug
will actually be assigned to src:foo. This will (eventually) happen
automatically if you go Source: foo in messages to submit@; or
manually if you go reassign nnn src:foo.

This change is needed to handle properly cases where (for example)
source sm produces binary 'r-cran-sm', and the source 'screen-message'
produces the binary 'sm'.

When the rest of the code to support this change is written and an
adequate amount of time has passed to allow existing bugs to be
reassigned, searching for src=foo will only pull up bugs in the binary
packages that foo makes and src:foo. As a temporary measure, I've also
included bugs assigned to the foo package if there is no corresponding
binary package by that name.

When everything is slightly more complete, I'll be making an
announcement to -announce about these changes.


Don Armstrong

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Work-needing packages report for Jan 2, 2009

[wnpp]

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.

Total number of orphaned packages: 478 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 106 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 46 (new: 0)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.



The following packages have been orphaned:

   libiodbc2 (#509815), orphaned 6 days ago
 Description: iODBC Driver Manager
 Reverse Depends: freeradius-iodbc iodbc libhk-classes-odbc
   libiodbc2-dev libodbc-ruby1.8 libqt3-mt-odbc libqt4-sql-odbc
   libsqlxx-2.3c2a libsqlxx-dev pike7.6-odbc (2 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 4205

   libwww-bugzilla-perl (#509816), orphaned 6 days ago
 Description: creation and updating of Bugzilla bugs
 Installations reported by Popcon: 18

   yydecode (#509889), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: decode yEnc archives
 Installations reported by Popcon: 189

475 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.



No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 106 packages
are awaiting adoption.  See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

   apache2 (#470795), requested 294 days ago
 Description: Co-maintainer wanted
 Reverse Depends: ampache apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
   apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
   apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (153 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 40099

   ara (#450876), requested 417 days ago
 Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
 Installations reported by Popcon: 122

   athcool (#278442), requested 1528 days ago
 Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
 Installations reported by Popcon: 231

   bash-completion (#472468), requested 283 days ago
 Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
 Installations reported by Popcon: 19821

   cvs (#354176), requested 1043 days ago
 Description: Concurrent Versions System
 Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
   cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (12 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 21796

   dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 432 days ago
 Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
   information
 Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate feta
   haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage ia32-archive ia32-libs-tools
   mlmmj sbuild (1 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 9492

   dpkg (#282283), requested 1503 days ago
 Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
 Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
   backuppc build-essential bzr-builddeb cacao-oj6-dbg cacao-oj6-jdk
   (118 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 78653

   drscheme (#402589), requested 752 days ago
 Description: PLT scheme programming environment
 Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
 Installations reported by Popcon: 336

   elvis (#432298), requested 542 days ago
 Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
   support)
 Reverse Depends: elvis elvis-console elvis-tools
 Installations reported by Popcon: 379

   fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 390 days ago (non-free)
 Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
 Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-control
   fglrx-driver fglrx-glx fglrx-glx-ia32 fglrx-kernel-src
 Installations reported by Popcon: 2106

   flightgear (#487388), requested 194 days ago
 Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
 Installations reported by Popcon: 922

   gentoo (#422498), requested 606 days ago
 Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
 Installations reported by Popcon: 256

   gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 266 days ago
 Description: help needed to execute test cases
 Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnade-bin
   gnat gnat-4.3 gnat-gps libadasockets-dev libahven13 (45 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 627

   gnat-gps (#496905), requested 126 days ago
 Description: co-maintainer needed
 Installations reported by Popcon: 134

   grub (#248397), requested 1697 days ago
 Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
 Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-defa

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

[George Danchev]

On Friday 02 January 2009 05:04:08 Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Paul Wise"  writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Kees Cook  wrote:
> >> Oh!  Good catch, thank you.  I've started a re-run with the regex
> >> changed.  So far, it's already caught new stuff.  I'll post updated
> >> details once it has finished.
> >
> > Could this test be added to lintian?
>
> The thread so far seems to indicate the false positive rate isn't great.
> People usually find Lintian checks with a lot of false positives rather
> annoying.  It can be worth it if the problem is sufficiently severe, but
> it always makes me nervous to add.

FYI: such a check will be added to cppcheck too.

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