Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 22. April 2022 07:18:50 MESZ schrieb Andreas Tille : >Am Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:12:19AM -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> >> I've been a Debian Developer for quite some time and can usually manage to >> figure out most tasks like this, and providing separate firmware to the >> installer has compl

Bug#1010003: ITP: dynamic-motd -- gives some informations when you log into a server through SSH

2022-04-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: dynamic-motd Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Luc Didry * URL : https://github.com/ldidry/dynamic-motd * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Pyth

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
Leandro Cunha writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 9:28 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> TL;DR: firmware support in Debian sucks, and we need to change this. See the >> "My preference, and rationale" Section below. >> >> In my opinion, the way we deal with (non-free) firmware in Debian is a m

Bug#1010010: ITP: python-fhs -- Python module for using the FHS and XDG basedir paths.

2022-04-22 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Wijnen X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, wij...@debian.org * Package name: python-fhs Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Bas Wijnen * URL : https://github.com/wijnen/python-fhs * License : AGPL3+ Programmin

Bug#1010012: ITP: python-network -- Python module for easy networking

2022-04-22 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Wijnen X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, wij...@debian.org * Package name: python-network Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bas Wijnen * URL : https://github.com/wijnen/python-network * License : AGPL3+ Pr

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
hi Steve, On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 01:27:46AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > TL;DR: firmware support in Debian sucks, and we need to change this. See the > "My preference, and rationale" Section below. [...] and anyone involved, especillay including those not listed here: > Thanks to people who r

Bug#1010013: ITP: python-websocketd -- Python module for creating a http server which uses WebSockets

2022-04-22 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Wijnen X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, wij...@debian.org * Package name: python-websocketd Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bas Wijnen * URL : https://github.com/wijnen/python-websocketd * License : AGPL3

writing good GR ballots (Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:52:04AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I agree with this option split, but that reminds me of a different > procedural note. > > While I recognize and respect the desire to create a comprehensive ballot, > I'm still going to advocate for proposing a GR only with the option

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread lange
Hi, I'm using NIS since 20+ years in a small network with about 60 computers. Since I manage all computers and the physical network can be seen as secure (I know it's not perfect secure) I do not need the additional crypto features of NIS+ or LDAP, which would be overkill. All my users use yppassw

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Thomas, On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:07:52PM +0200, la...@debian.org wrote: > I'm using NIS since 20+ years in a small network with about 60 computers. > Since I manage all computers and the physical network can be seen as secure > (I know it's not perfect secure) I do not need the additional cry

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread lange
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:41:50 -0700, Steve Langasek > said: > If your users are using yppasswd on the NIS master for changing passwords, > then evidently you are not relying on support for NIS in PAM. (yppasswd > doesn't even link against libpam.) Thanks for clarifying this

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread lange
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:41:50 -0700, Steve Langasek > said: > NIS also dates from a period when rsh was considered acceptable, and unless > I'm mistaken, has a comparable level of security. Allowing access to > password hashes for users based on the IP of the machine you are querying >

Re: RFC: pam: dropping support for NIS/NIS+?

2022-04-22 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:41:50 -0700, Steve Langasek > said: > If your users are using yppasswd on the NIS master for changing passwords, > then evidently you are not relying on support for NIS in PAM. (yppasswd > doesn't even link against libpam.) Thanks for clarifying this

Re: Bug#1010013: ITP: python-websocketd -- Python module for creating a http server which uses WebSockets

2022-04-22 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 05:56:08PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > I don’t want to discourage you from packaging this, but unless I’m mistaken, > this will be at least the third Websocket client package for Python, and at > least the third Websocket server in Python 🙂 Yes, I'm not surprised. I