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Bug#718272: why was bitcoin package removed from testing?

2021-01-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-01-30 19:49:31) > On 30-01-2021 11:50, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > If the release team consider bitcoin unacceptable for Debian stable, > > then please elaborate why. > > We consider it unacceptable for Debian bullseye because the security > team doesn't want to support

Bug#718272: why was bitcoin package removed from testing?

2021-01-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jonas, On 30-01-2021 11:50, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > If the release team consider bitcoin unacceptable for Debian stable, > then please elaborate why. We consider it unacceptable for Debian bullseye because the security team doesn't want to support it. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description:

Bug#718272: why was bitcoin package removed from testing?

2021-01-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
The bitcoin package was removed from testing some hours ago - https://tracker.debian.org/news/1225530/bitcoin-removed-from-testing/ references bug#718272 but that bug is closed. If the removal accidental (e.g. cause by bug closure flip-flop, then please consider correcting that by fast

Bug#718272: Processed: reopening 718272

2021-01-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
close 718272 thanks Quoting Moritz Mühlenhoff (2021-01-27 20:03:40) > reopen 718272 > thx > > Reopening. The reasons are listed in the bug log and were given by > the upstream developers. If you want to provide it to bullseye > stable users, get it into fasttrack.debian.net. Thanks for sharing y

Bug#718272: Processed: reopening 718272

2021-01-27 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
reopen 718272 thx Reopening. The reasons are listed in the bug log and were given by the upstream developers. If you want to provide it to bullseye stable users, get it into fasttrack.debian.net. Cheers, Moritz

Bug#718272: Processed: reopening 718272

2021-01-07 Thread Luke Dashjr
FWIW, I brought this up at our weekly developer meeting, and there was also another concern about apt upgrades across softforks: It could be problematic to not deploy a softfork, and problematic to deploy one without the user's consent. I think I recall Debian has a way for packages to interact

Bug#718272: Processed: reopening 718272

2021-01-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luke Dashjr (2021-01-07 18:26:43) > We (upstream) already elaborated many years ago, copied here: > > http://luke.dashjr.org/tmp/code/20130723-linux-distribution-packaging-and-bitcoin.md.asc > > At a minimum, to be safe, Debian would need to: > > 1) Either: > 1a) Build with the bundled L

Bug#718272: Processed: reopening 718272

2021-01-07 Thread Luke Dashjr
21 13:51:50 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (2020-12-27 19:33:02) > > > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reopen 718272 > > > > Bug #718272 {Done: Jonas Smedegaard } [src:bitcoin] > > upstream does not support

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2018-06-19 Thread Vincas Dargis
Any news after half a year? Why it's marked "fixed-upstream"?

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey Luke, Jonas, On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 08:31:33PM +, Luke Dashjr wrote: > > >> I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. > > > Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... > > Please provide references supporting that. 0.15 is certainly "stable" in the sense t

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-03 Thread Luke Dashjr
On Friday 03 November 2017 1:27:24 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Luke Dashjr (2017-11-03 11:25:23) > > > On Friday 03 November 2017 9:10:37 AM you wrote: > >> I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. > > > > Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... > >

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luke Dashjr (2017-11-03 11:25:23) > On Friday 03 November 2017 9:10:37 AM you wrote: >> I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. > > Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... Please provide references supporting that. > What is the plan for getting secu

Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-03 Thread Luke Dashjr
On Friday 03 November 2017 9:10:37 AM you wrote: > I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... What is the plan for getting security and protocol change updates backported to Debian stable? Luke

Bug#718272: BDB

2014-06-25 Thread Micha Bailey
Scott said: one more thing: debian is discussion dropping libdb (the db the node, but not the wallet, uses). That might force our hand as well: either ship and support upstream's included libdb or drop the node and just ship the wallet. libdb long-term security maintenance might be challenging.

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:53:57 PM Scott Howard wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Scott Howard wrote: >> > Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the >> > options. >> >> one more thing: debian is discussi

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Luke Dashjr
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:53:57 PM Scott Howard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > > Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the > > options. > > one more thing: debian is discussion dropping libdb (the db the node, > but not the wallet, u

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the options. one more thing: debian is discussion dropping libdb (the db the node, but not the wallet, uses). That might force our hand as well: either ship and support upstream

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the options. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > This is not necessary as the debian-installer already enables > stable-updates by default. stable-updates is enabled by default, but not stable-proposed-updat

Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Chris Bainbridge
Luke-Jr wrote: > I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have > a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory > protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the "broken by the flow of > time" category. Thoughts? I agree. Scott Howard w

Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Chris Bainbridge
> For example: if we release Debian Jessie with version 0.8 of bitcoin, and a > security bug is found in that version and fixed upstream, the fix may be based > on top of version 0.10 and unable to be ported to 0.8. A Debian package is allowed to bump versions for a security fix. Is this any diffe

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Scott, For your information I have a case that you might find interesting: Zabbix did not meet release criteria and was removed from "testing" just before release of Wheezy. Ever since yours truly was maintaining it in wheezy-backports. Why wouldn't we seek backports manager(s)' permission to

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-15 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Luke-Jr wrote: > I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have > a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory > protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the "broken by the flow of > time" category.

Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-13 Thread Luke-Jr
I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the "broken by the flow of time" category. Thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-di

Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-13 Thread Scott Howard
Below is my opinion, and is open for debate: Although there are mechanisms for supporting security updates in stable debian releases, and luke-jr's work of porting fixes is great and exactly what is needed, updates to network protocols would not classify as a security update and would only be avai

Bug#718272: Severity: serious - need to be changed

2013-12-12 Thread mdt
Package: bitcoin Severity: normal The severity of this bug can be changed to allow migration to testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#718272: backport policy

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
Also, note the backport branches have a policy of only including fixes which have been first merged to the master branch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Luke-Jr wrote: > This isn't correct. We do support backported/stable versions in a separate git > repository: > https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/ > > Debian is welcome to choose a branch and I will do what I can to ensure it > receives long-ter

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:58:58 PM Scott Howard wrote: > How are those updated? It appears whenever there is a current-version > micro-release, those commits are backported to the stable branches. I have a lot of different projects, and tend to cycle through them. Outside of that routine

Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
This isn't correct. We do support backported/stable versions in a separate git repository: https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/ Debian is welcome to choose a branch and I will do what I can to ensure it receives long-term support. I would recommend using the latest release (cu

Bug#718272: upstream does not support stable releases (block migration to testing)

2013-07-29 Thread Scott Howard
Source: bitcoin Severity: serious The bitcoin network requires on strict adherence to consensus between nodes. Small changes to underlying libraries, even justified security changes, threaten to break consensus and could possible cause accidental forks. For example, it is possible for bug fix in