Re: memset(x,y,0) bug audit

2011-01-19 Thread Raphael Geissert
Samuel Thibault wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:11, Silvio Cesare > wrote: >> I performed an audit of Debian stable for memset(x,y,0) bugs. These >> should typically be corrected with memset(x,0,y). > > I guess that could be one of the candidates for DACA. Will be available once cppcheck 1.

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May wrote: > What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new > regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed > in stable? If a stable security update contained a regression, usually that is fixed with an update in the

security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Brian May
Hello, What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? e.g. I have had somebody complain to me that this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587702 which was introduced into stable

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-19 Thread Amaya
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > While I have no love for insserv, if you think the whole point of > dependency based boot (be it insserv, upstart, systemd) is boot speed, > I think you're mistaken. It's a part of the goal, but much more > important is actually correctness. Getting the dependencies betwe

Bug#610506: ITP: ardentryst -- Action/RPG sidescoller, focused on story and character development

2011-01-19 Thread Vincent Cheng
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Cheng * Package name: ardentryst Version : 1.7.1 Upstream Author : Jordan Trudgett * URL : http://jordan.trudgett.com/ * License : game itself: GPL-3 ; game data/music: CC 3.0 Programming Lang: Python Descri

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
You might want to look at the PackageMap project started by a Debian/Gentoo contributor: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-19 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote: > I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux > distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is > automatically generated. Cool! Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you compute this s

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hi After reading this thread, I've got a strange thought. So teams maintaining important projects in Debian can't handle the load caused by bug report stream. Large presentange of bugs actually as upstream bugs. If so, upstream should be interested in that information non less than in any oth