Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Joe Smith
Joerg Jaspert wrote: finger It's been a while since I've seen a useful finger server, I think it's fine to drop this too. db.debian.org, but that doesnt need it standard. For what it's worth finger's local features are still important. I've recently seen a professor explain to a class o

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 01 January 2009 13:55, Frans Pop wrote: > > They were, I have just made some significant changes. > > Thanks a lot for that. BTW, wouldn't it make sense to have separate wiki > pages with setup info per release? The instructions for Etch probably are > still valid. It would. In prepa

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-31 Thread Nicholas Breen
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:42:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to seek advice before I perform a mass-bug filing for this > unstable (though semi-common) use of "sprintf" and "snprintf": [...] > pcregrep -M 'sprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,' While fixing one of

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Frans Pop
Russell Coker wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 11:32, Frans Pop wrote: >> Russell Coker wrote: >> I just did a standard i386 install using the instructions on the wiki >> [1] (which BTW look to be rather outdated in several respects). > > They were, I have just made some significant changes.

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:01:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:57:22 -0600, Steve Langasek > wrote: > >The issue is that, in order to reliably ensure that a user (such as the > >admin) is not locked out by xscreensaver or xlockmore in the middle of an > >upgrade, > The relea

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 11:32, Frans Pop wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > Frans Pop wrote: > > > Not really. SELinux is not even close to functional after a standard > > > installation. For one thing, it gets installed *after* the initrd gets > > > generated and the initrd does not get rege

Bug#510356: ITP: clojure -- a Lisp dialect for the JVM

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Collingbourne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Collingbourne * Package name: clojure Version : 0.0.20081217 Upstream Author : Rich Hickey * URL : http://clojure.org/ * License : Eclipse Public License 1.0 Programming Lang: Java, Clojure Description : a

Upgrade Pre-Report and Wireless Documentation

2008-12-31 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I was testing my USB WLAN stick on a lenny system blackbox:~# lsusb |grep Link Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2001:3c00 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G122 802.11g rev. B1 [ralink] blackbox:~# It was running flawless on an etch laptop. The intention was to avoid having an upgraded lenny laptop without

Re: Bug#510350: ITP: snakefood -- Python dependency grapher

2008-12-31 Thread Daniel Moerner
This looks like a very useful application. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > * It works on a set of files, i.e. you do not have to specify a >single script, you can select a directory (package or else) or a >set of files. It finds all the Python files recursively >

Bug#510350: ITP: snakefood -- Python dependency grapher

2008-12-31 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi * Package name: snakefood Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Martin Blais * URL : http://furius.ca/snakefood/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python dependency grapher Genera

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:57:22 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: >The issue is that, in order to reliably ensure that a user (such as the >admin) is not locked out by xscreensaver or xlockmore in the middle of an >upgrade, The release notes strongly suggest not doing the upgrade from within an X session

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 15:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > In case you see a good reason why the above is wrong, feel free to reply > > stating it. We currently can't see any of the packages living up to the > > policy definition of s

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:53:40AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Attached is a list of affected packages, > > Piping through dd-list(1) gives: > Aurelien Jarno >med-fichier >sdlperl (U) > sdlperl is fixed in both unstable and experimental. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GP

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-31 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:03:13PM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > I've just performed a test with the following code on my system (sid, > hardening-wrapper not installed, compiled with gcc without any extra > flags): > > char buf[20]; > strcpy(buf,"FOO"); > snprintf(buf,sizeof(buf),"%s%s",bu

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("I hereby resign as secretary"): > I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I'd just like to join all the other people saying that it's sad that we have come to this. As you know I haven't always agreed with your decisions :-) but they have alway

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > In case you see a good reason why the above is wrong, feel free to reply > stating it. We currently can't see any of the packages living up to the > policy definition of standard. I would welcome the following packages to remain Stan

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > For most languages tasksel will automatically install relevant > dictionaries. It currently does not do so for English _because_ > those packages are priority standard (and have been for a long > time). IMO we should be consistent betwee

Bug#510321: ITP: libjcip-annotations-java -- Java Concurrency In Practice annotations library

2008-12-31 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafal Lewczuk * Package name: libjcip-annotations-java Version : 20060626 Upstream Author : Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls * URL : http://www.jcip.net * License : CC Attribution 3.0 Programming Lang: Java Description :

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > I could buy that for mtr-tiny, but which average user can do anything > > meaningful with strace so that it needs to be in standard? If you need > > it you have bug, and the average user will report that $upstream > > (debian, developer, wherever). And can then install it if asked to >

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 10:09 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > This one is probably not *directly* useful to users of a standard > system, but I'm not sure what effect the change in priority has for > the presence of this package on installation media. This package is currently in standard onl

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Actually, I misspoke in saying that mtr-tiny is the only traceroute we have > by default. iputils-traceroute is also installed at Priority: important; but > iputils-traceroute is far less useful on modern networks than mtr-tiny is. > > If traceroute belongs in important, then mtr belon

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-31 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Evgeni Golov writes: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:53:40 +0100 Adeodato Simó wrote: > >> Evgeni Golov >>desmume (U) > > Forwarded upstream, they'll fix that asap. thanks for taking care for this! -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel