Re: epoch bump for babl and gegl libraries

2020-08-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
precedent for > having Debian packages reflect epochs added in third-party repositories > in general. >... Sounds good to me in that case, especially considering that this is a quite popular 3rd party repository. > smcv cu Adrian

Re: introducing an epoch for src:debian-security-support

2020-08-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
7 > buster: 0:10~2020.08.17 > stretch: 0:9~2020.08.17 > and so on. >... > Feedback welcome. One nitpick: ~ works, but the "before" semantics makes it look confusing. 10~2020.08.17 is the 2020.08.17 snapshot/prerelease before 10. I would suggest one of 1:11.2020.08.17 1:11+2020.08.17 > cheers, > Holger cu Adrian

Re: epoch bump for babl and gegl libraries

2020-08-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
d as an excuse for introducing regressions or not fixing problems Fixing problems should always be preferred to documenting problems. > Kind regards, > Andrei cu Adrian

Bug#834198: ITP: python-oxd -- Python bindings for Gluu OxD server

2016-08-12 Thread Adrian Alves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Alves * Package name: python-oxd Version : 2.4.4 Upstream Author : Gluu * URL : https://github.com/GluuFederation/oxd-python * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python bindings for Gluu

Re: Network access during build

2016-09-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
lding the packages - this is then your personal policy, and autobuilders are also able to run the tests if they want to. This would allow automated checking that the normal build does not access the network as well as everyone with privacy concerns to not opt-in to running them, without making it

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
uot; or even "the bug will be fixed in stable". Policies for updating stable can be changed, but I do not see where to suddenly find the huge amount of people with the skills, spare time and enthusiasm to properly debug all issues reported against the ancient software [1] the users of D

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
ions of such packages in stable. It is not likely that anyone will ever look at these bugs - they are clutter from the moment they are being reported. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need

Re: Bug#835533: dasher: Please package Dasher 5.0 beta

2016-10-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
at is in one stable release disappears in the next stable release, and I guess dasher can forever serve as a good example of critical software having been removed from unstable without a single good reason. I am also personally unhappy that creating a patch for the RC bug triggered remov

Re: Bug#835533: dasher: Please package Dasher 5.0 beta

2016-10-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
security support,[3] or if he gets no FreeRADIUS in stretch? FreeRADIUS is high-profile enough that many Debian developers do care and new maintainers were quickly found. Many other packages are not. > Scott K cu Adrian [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806617#42 [2] th

Re: Bug#835533: dasher: Please package Dasher 5.0 beta

2016-10-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 02:46:46PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On October 6, 2016 8:51:59 AM EDT, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 02:46:44AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>... > >> As frustrating as occasional removal/reintroduction cy

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
isible immediately when looking at the bug - I thought this was already resolved. > Cheers, > Moritz cu Adrian [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb-10.0&suite=jessie -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 21:12 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > [ adding debian-powerpc ] > > > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > > Niels Thykier schrieb: > >

Re: When should we https our mirrors?

2016-10-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
s transport [3] to the installer, which would currently add libcurl and GnuTLS and more to the installer. When the https apt transport goes from exotic to mandatory, its footprint should be reduced. There might be other places in the distribution that also need changes. > Toodles, >paultag c

Re: [buildd] unexpected FTBFS on amd64 buildd «binet»

2016-10-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
, and no SSE at all on i386. Similar problems exist in your package on arm* regarding OMAP3/OMAP4/NEON. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: [buildd] unexpected FTBFS on amd64 buildd «binet»

2016-10-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 03:10:57AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 18:57 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [...] > > You should fix your package so that it works on the lowest supported  > > hardware of each port. > > Right. > > > Autobuilding is

Re: Bug#841099: ITP: node-has-values -- Returns true if any values exist, false if empty

2016-10-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
here. In unstable there are around 3500 packages for perl modules, and even more for python modules. The whole JS ecosystem still being a bit immature is a real problem, but the number of packages itself is not a problem. I am not a fan of all that JS stuff, but I do not see any valid basis f

Re: Bug#841196: ITP: node-os-homedir -- Node.js 4 `os.homedir()` ponyfill

2016-10-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
minimum standards? And who will do the work? The whole problem is not unique to JS. See #841113 for a random recent example in C where someone looked at an ITP. We are talking about 10 ITPs per day. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out

Re: Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid

2016-10-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
tch, and the result is not even smaller than the dropbear everyone else uses for that purpose. To make the NIH complete, it uses own versions of standard C library string functions and an own (pretty primitive) build system. cu Adrian [1] thank god only in experimenta

Re: Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid

2016-10-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
the latest time when something like that was still considered acceptable security. Today this is just extremely bad sandboxing, and anyone suggesting to do anything like that in 2016 proves without any doubt that he doesn't have a clue regarding security. > Jan >... cu Adrian --

Re: When should we https our mirrors?

2016-10-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
clue about security will end up doing something like that. For the kind of attacks you are describing, https is just snake oil. > Regards, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for

Re: client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2016-10-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
also happens to carry the traffic between you and the Debian mirror you are using, HTTPS won't make a difference. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Onl

Re: When should we https our mirrors?

2016-10-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 04:00:49AM -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > but also I should point out that your email is being routed > insecurely via welho.com and lacks TLS in transit, so I also probably > shouldn't

Re: When should we https our mirrors?

2016-10-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 04:00:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: When should we https our mirrors?"): >... > Adrian: > > Noone is arguing that switching to https would be a bad thing, > > but whether or not it will happen depends solely on whe

Re: client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2016-10-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 09:22:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 07:28:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >>... > >> The value of HTTPS lies in its protection against passive snooping. Given > >> the sad sta

Re: client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2016-10-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 04:33:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: >... > > I would assume this can be pretty automated, and that by NSA standards > > this is not a hard problem. > > Since the entire exchange is encrypted, it's not completely

Re: "PIE by default" transition is underway -- wiki needs updating

2016-10-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
s > currently... complicated. >... The "must not be compiled with the `-fPIC' flag" unless there is an exceptional case is still true. So only a slight update in the wording is required regarding PIE. cu Adrian -- "Is there not

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
tion you were already considering worth additional work. > Henrique Holschuh cu Adrian [1] binary and source package -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise,&q

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps

2016-10-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
ackage" means that you actually call "autoreconf". "touch configure.ac" breaks the build of the hello package due to missing aclocal-1.14 Be prepared to see a lot of such issues when you touch random files. If you want this to work properly, Debian has to move from usi

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps

2016-10-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
nerated from the git metadata. You are saying it is a bug that .git is not shipped in the source tarball of GNU hello? > Regards, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been ne

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:42:26AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >... > Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps"): > > Be prepared to see a lot of such issues when you touch random files. > > I'm certainly expecting to see lots of issues. >

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:58:12PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more > messages]"): > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:42:26AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... > > > If it does "sufficiently diff

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps

2016-11-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 12:05:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >... > Personally I think a Linux kernel tarball, without accompanying git > history, is a GPL violation. >... Why would the git *history* matter for GPL compliance? You can push from a shallow clone. >

Re: Static linking and fPIC (Was: Re: "PIE by default" transition is underway -- wiki needs updating)

2016-11-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
the LUA 5.1 static library has not been compiled with the toolchain that defaults to PIE, and the one and only change required to fix the build of qcontrol should therefore be to request a binNMU of lua5.1 > Cheers, > Balint cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Li

Re: NRSS has been deprecated [#696302]

2016-11-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
e-specific packages that are only relevant for a subset of the supported hardware on a port? Half of the stretch release architectures have a popcon lower than 25. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
s "no", then nothing is a solution that does not also solve how to notify the user when a new security update of the kernel was automatically installed on his remote server. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of t

Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!

2016-11-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
ether this issue is worth stable updates for > 10 packages. > -Ralf. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!

2016-11-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On November 4, 2016 5:01:31 PM EDT, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > >> Hi, > > > >Hi Ralf, > > > >> in the Colis proj

Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!

2016-11-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:21:13PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:01:31PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Hi Ralf, > > > > > in the Colis project (w

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
dding libssl1.0-dev dependencies to libqt4-dev and qtbase5-dev. After that, trying to compile any Qt-using package with the wrong OpenSSL should fail due to unsatisfiable build dependencies. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked sudden

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:27:00PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:51:15PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Should Debian also default to automatically reboot? > > > > If the answer is "no", then nothing is a solution that does not also > &

Re: Road to Stretch: let's stop increasing major version number in critical libraries at this point

2016-11-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
ansiontion freeze is today (sic). This is exactly to ensure that no new disruptive library changes can be started after today. > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the dar

Re: client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2016-11-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:06:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: >... > So, I'm not quite sure how to put this, since I don't know how much work > you've done professionally in computer security, and I don't want to > belittle that.

Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
Running outdated microcode is a bad idea, and noone is making Debian-specific workarounds for all the other CPU errata. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a

Re: Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
ne for many users for quite some time now. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: What to do when a maintainer is blocking maintenance for stretch?

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
. An orphaned package maintained by QA where everyone can just upload without delay is better maintained than a package with an inactive maintainer. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
FreeRADIUS is popular enough that people noticed before an RM: bug was filed, and new maintainers were found immediately. Other packages are not that popular. If any packages needed on these Debian machines have been removed from unstable, they are not on your list. This is the reason why a ITP

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
nitely* going to do it for cloud images Any "solution" for the reboot problem that assumes that there is a user who regularly logs into the machine misses the problem. > bye, > pabs cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of

Re: NRSS has been deprecated [#696302]

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
ad of the current practice where the maintainer can just submit an "RM: dasher" and a few hours later the package is gone? > We got plenty of packages orphaned for a decade that are in a good > condition. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise

Re: client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2016-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 12:03:03AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-11-05 22:23, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The solution you are trying to sell is apt-transport-https as default. > [...] > > Your solution would be a lot of work with relatively little improvement. > > Well

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
the current stretch release schedule are just resulting in a lot of people wasting a lot of time. > Thanks, > ~Niels >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
ve another way out? Yes, patching the OpenSSL 1.1 features that are really needed into the Debian OpenSSL 1.0.2 package. For ChaCha20 that's existing patches that are already being used elsewhere. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 07:03:28PM +1100, Scott Leggett wrote: > On 2016-11-15.00:16, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Bugs like "With Kurt's patch, apache2 crashes on startup with an invalid > > free." > > or #843988 will be a common sight on the list of RC bugs fo

Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
e), and much screaming. > > An alternative to find problems with (un-)locking should be to compile > the program in question with -fsanitize=thread (on amd64) and run it. > > Unfortunately, in current unstable with thread sanitizer one might get > #796246 (at least I had this)

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:15:39AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2016-11-15 00:16:14 [+0200], Adrian Bunk wrote: > > And since 80% of all OpenSSL-using packages in unstable are still > > using libssl1.0.2 (binNMUs have not yet happened), all runtime > > issue

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
ave to enter testing at the same time. #736687 is a non-issue for the transition itself, and the release team can force a package into testing ignoring such a bug. > Scott K cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:53:18PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2016-11-16 19:49:44 [+0200], Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The problem are not specific bugs, the problem is the whole size of the > > problem: > > > > 1. Sorting out what packages have to stay a

Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
g build :-( But we do already have > 1 year of widespread testing by users running unstable/testing on machines with TSX enabled. So for unstable/stretch this does not seem to be a huge problem. These are normal bugs that should be found and fixed if possible, just like passing a pointer in an int

Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:38:46AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, at 09:50, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > But we do already have > 1 year of widespread testing by users > > running unstable/testing on machines with TSX enabled. > > > > So

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:43:53PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Adrian Bunk schrieb: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 09:37:01AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > > Meyer wrote: > >> On lunes, 14 de noviembre de 2016 16:51:04 ART Marco d'Itri wrote: > >>

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:22:59PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Adrian Bunk schrieb: > > And/or get sponsorship from companies for supporting ChaCha20-patched > > 1.0.2 > > It's not a matter of whipping up some patch; anything less than an > official backp

Re: Multi-Arch: allowed

2016-11-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
> allowed. > > That Depends seems wrong, there's no reason a -dbg package needs a > dependency on anything, AFAICT. A -dbg package only works with the exact version of the package it provides the debug symbols for. > Cheers, > Julien cu Adrian -- "Is there

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
undary > (including the application). If inspection is not easily possible, then adding a dependency on libssl1.0-dev to qtbase5-private-dev should be sufficient to ensure that this is not leaked to a different OpenSSL version. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rai

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:20:06PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:59:10PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If inspection is not easily possible, then adding a dependency on > > libssl1.0-dev to qtbase5-private-dev should be sufficient to > > ensure th

Re: [Letsencrypt-devel] Certbot in Debian Stretch

2016-11-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
ld also set the incentive the wrong way. If it is likely that some packages cannot be supported until the end of the (non-LTS) lifetime of stretch in mid/end-2020, then please file RC bugs to keep these packages out of stretch. > Cheers, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of

Re: [Letsencrypt-devel] Certbot in Debian Stretch

2016-11-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
y of deciding" is that not shipping any web browser would not be a realistic option. For nearly any other package, not shipping it in a stable is the better option for Debian. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of t

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 02:50:23PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:50:12PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > >... > > >

Re: [Letsencrypt-devel] Certbot in Debian Stretch

2016-11-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 07:08:33PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 24/11/16 17:39, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 05:22:29PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> ... > >> For networked services, it is different. > >> > >> D

Re: MIA maintainers and RC-buggy packages

2016-12-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
a package upload in 2016[1] and speak Lithuanian might be zero. > Christoph cu Adrian [1] any package, as definition of "active developer" -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain fo

Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?

2016-12-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
s still present? It might take a user hours (or even days) to verify whether a problem is still present. It would be a very evil if a user would spend effort after such an email, but the next he hears from the maintainer would be another such request to try the then-latest version a year lat

Re: contacting all bug reporters for a package?

2016-12-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:15:33PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 19/12/16 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:11:27AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> > >> Is there any easy way to contact everybody who made a bug report against > &

no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF

2017-01-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
Adrian [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-strong-digests-in-dsc.html [2] there are several that are orphaned but the maintainer field has not yet been updated to the Debian QA Group [3] many of the maintainers of these packages will also be in my next list of potentially MIA people to the

Re: [RFC] The PIE unholy mess

2017-01-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
so globally enabled. This is a very good suggestion. When PIE works without problems on a port, a porter should request that it gets enabled by default for that port in gcc. When PIE does not work without problems on a port, nothing should enable it on that port. > Thanks, > Guillem

Re: (was: Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
for ubuntu or raspbian in debian/rules, and adding something similar for build dependencies would sound reasonable to me. > Mike Stone cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many day

Bug#886238: Build-Profiles purpose, mechanism vs policy (was Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
stretched developer resources. > Thanks, > Guillem cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
equires from non-trivial packages. > Scott K >... cu Adrian BTW: My pet rant about debian/copyright is that too much emphasis is placed on the copyright years that are usually irrelevant, since copyright expires no earlier than 50 years [3] after the death of the author.[4][5]

Bug#886238: Build-Profiles purpose, mechanism vs policy (was Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 07:29:51PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: > > Adrian> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> ... Given the background of build-profiles, I'm very m

Bug#886238: Build-Profiles purpose, mechanism vs policy (was Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
officially support rebuilding the whole archive of a stable release with fewer libraries. > Cheers, > Emilio cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Reducing the attack surface caused by Berkeley DB...

2018-01-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
ill start a "remove Berkeley DB" discussion on this mailing list... ;-) > Thanks, > Lionel. cu Adrian [1] it is not clear whether there will have to be one more Debian release with Berkeley DB just for upgrades -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked sudde

Re: Reducing the attack surface caused by Berkeley DB...

2018-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:25:20PM +0100, Lionel Debroux wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Lionel, > On 1/27/18 6:27 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > There doesn't seem to be any disagreement on the general idea, > > the only thing missing is a person doing the work on getting >

Re: Reducing the attack surface caused by Berkeley DB...

2018-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
I don't know what was used, perhaps something like sudo apt-get install devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools reverse-depends -l -s src:db5.3 | dd-list -i > In order to sort libdb5.3's reverse dependencies by popularity, >... I'm not convinced that would bring much value, someone w

Re: Reducing the attack surface caused by Berkeley DB...

2018-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
... This would only be sufficient for the easy cases where the data stored is temporary or cached and can be thrown away. > Best regards > > David Kalnischkies cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had bee

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
who are not following unstable the situation is less rosy. And if a normal user would notice immediately, what could he/she do? Even an RFP to get a perfectly working package re-added just like it was before the removal has close to zero chance of being acted on. > Scott K cu Adrian --

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
removed compared to when it was first shipped in a stable release.[1] At that point the actual question is why we did allow the package to be ITP'ed into Debian at all. cu Adrian [1] from a user perspective -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
The chances of someone looking at this specific BTS page during the short amount of time between it showing up there and the actual removal are close to zero. cu Adrian BTW: And then the next problem would be that the ftp team tends to ignore non-maintainer objections in RM bugs and removes

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
de.js packages that are part of Debian. > Mike Stone cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 12:17:14PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, February 02, 2018 06:30:28 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:18:28PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 01, 2018 11:56:21 AM Paul Wise wrote: > > > &g

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 05:57:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:44:36PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 02:29:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > It'd probably make sense to use > > > https://www.debian.org/Bugs

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-02-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 02:01:38AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, February 03, 2018 08:20:02 AM Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > Do you have any suggestion better than "ITP immediately followed by > > orphaning" for packages I consider useful but don't

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
he lifetime of a stable Debian release, it is better for our users when they are installing the software from upstream with the security support provided by upstream. > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
Pi ecosystem would be the more logical choice here. > Samuel cu Adrian [1] and the Debian derivative Raspbian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise,"

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
lear picture from the start when upgrades to new major versions will have to be planned. > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:47:52PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 18 février 2018 23:53 +0200, Adrian Bunk  : > > >> Who said we cannot properly maintain this stuff? And where do you > >> think our expected level of quality (whatever that is) will not be > >>

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:18:13AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-02-18 22:53, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > In the year 2018, any kind of "properly maintain" includes security > > support. > > > > Please elaborate how Debian can provide security support for p

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
oyed via unattended-upgrades to millions of machines running Debian stable. > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
re of an ecosystem, but it uses both uses Node.js and Rails. How can you guarantee to provide "security by upstream releases" for gitlab until mid-2022 if a new gitlab might require more recent versions of many dependencies? > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
kages without security support in the default install would already be an improvement compared to stretch... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for man

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
ipping the software in Debian. And it's distribution-agnostic, meaning it can be provided once by upstream for all distributions instead of duplicating work in every Linux distribution. > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?"

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 03:52:30PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:16:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 08:40:12PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > > >... > > > > An example what "no security support"

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
specific. You were talking about flatpak. The whole point of flatpak is that the same app is equally integrated in all Linux distributions. > Michael cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
e used with untrusted content, such as unsanitized data from the Internet." IMHO any package in Debian stable that uses a node* package on untrusted content should get an RC bug and a CVE - it is clearly documented that this should not be done. > Regards, > smcv >...

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