Re: fvwm{,2,-common} packages up for adoption

1999-01-24 Thread Vincent Renardias
mp; fvwm-common. (I already began to work on it actually, expect an upload next WE or so) Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogiciels du soleil: - - http://www.fr.debia

filters: Licence problems

1999-01-24 Thread Vincent Renardias
in any way, pay for this program by spending one hour petting one or several cats." I'm indeed not quite sure 'catware' qualifies as DFSG-free. -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogi

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-25 Thread Vincent Renardias
talled by default. That would be cheating ;) -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogiciels du soleil: - - http://www.fr.debian.orgOpen Hardware: htt

Re: Intent to package gnome-xml, RealTimeBattle, Pike, PiGTK

1999-01-25 Thread Vincent Renardias
umeric. Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogiciels du soleil: - - http://www.fr.debian.orgOpen Hardware: http://www.lds

Re: Uploaded lilo 21-3.1 (source i386) to master [NMU]

1999-01-25 Thread Vincent Renardias
yway, I will include them in my working copy. Would > be better if you mailed them to me DIRECTLY. I usually wait for the package to be installed to send the NMU patch to the Bug Tracking System which is why you haven't got it yet. > Greetings > Bernd > > On Mon, Jan 25, 1

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-26 Thread Vincent Renardias
sion to fix the most obvious bugs (notably the few missing manpages). Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogic

Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-26 Thread Vincent Renardias
Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen. I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago. Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/ (NB: there are _2_ binary packages to install:

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-26 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Eric Delaunay wrote: > Vincent Renardias wrote: > [There is text before PGP section.] > > > > Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x > > compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen. > > I've just uplo

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Vincent Renardias
On 27 Jan 1999, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: > >>>>> "VR" == Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > VR> Including the current (2.9g-5) util-linux from unstable in > VR> frozen is a Bad Idea(tm). This version has several big >

Re: seeking new maintainer: lilo

1999-01-30 Thread Vincent Renardias
t unless nobody else really wants it. Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogiciels du soleil: - - http://www.fr.debian.orgOpen Hardware:

Re: `Vedova Linux' (was forwarded message from Ian Murdock)

1999-02-01 Thread Vincent Renardias
than Debian... ;) -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.orgLogiciels du soleil: - - http://www.fr.debian.orgOpen Hardware: http://ww

jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
a new version of jdk117 from blackdown (v3) has been released. apparently, the problems with glibc2.1 have been resolved, though i haven't checked this out myself. is anybody working on packaging it? can i help? -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list? absolutely. the logo thread on debian-devel-announce seriously pissed me off, because i don't filter the -announce lists with procmail. -vinny

Re: jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-14 Thread Vincent Murphy
rdinary packages i'm afraid, never mind installer packages. although if anybody wants to take it on i'm willing to help in any way that i can. -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 "With a PC, I always felt limited by the so

Uploaded gdb 4.18-1 (source i386) to master

1999-05-18 Thread Vincent Renardias
gency: low Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: gdb- The GNU Debugger Changes: gdb (4.18-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream version! Files: 619420e2fa1ab2af70dd95dd02472260 608 devel standard gdb_4.18-1.dsc 828d28487af6cec074639c110256947

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
_("Error: verification failed: %s\n"), gpgme_strerror (err)); state_puts (buf, s); } You need to complain to GPGME. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 novembre 2018 19:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst : > Meanwhile, it makes sense to be courteous to people who were a DD once > but really couldn't care less now and want to get rid of the nagging, > which seems like a far more likely scenario. Then, they should click on the button they are asked t

Re: Debian CI pipeline for Developers

2018-11-16 Thread Vincent Danjean
ing debian/gitlab-yi.yml as proposed on https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/blob/master/README.md [...]adding the following definitions to your gitlab-ci.yml file[...] [...]On Debian projects, you would normally want to put this file under the debian/ folder,[...] Regards, V

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 novembre 2018 09:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel : > | Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Our build system may be broken: /bin vs > /usr/bin"): > | > tl;dr: We may be messing up /bin and /usr/bin on some platforms > | > | This is the result of the change of the buildds to have `usrmerge', ie > | merg

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 22 novembre 2018 18:00 +0100, Marco d'Itri : > Actually I believe that the fact that this could be solved quickly and > with a trivial change is a great argument in favour of the quality of my > plan and work for switching to merged-/usr. Thank you for that! My workstation was switched to me

Bug#918120: ITP: bpftrace -- high-level tracing language for Linux eBPF

2019-01-03 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: bpftrace Version : git Upstream Author : IO Visor Project * URL : https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace * License : Apache 2 Programming

Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
've noticed that some other Perl scripts also use this filehandle and might be affected by the same issue. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
It is probably never used, and probably useless (I would rather use the features from the shell if I need a pipe). If this is modified, "-" must still be supported as being regarded as stdin (this one is normally safe, and at least developers should already be aware of it). -- Vincent Lefè

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-01-23 17:23:10 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2019-01-23 15:32:00 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> This is completely mad and IMO the bug is in perl, not in all of the > >> millions of perl scripts that used &l

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-01-24 11:12:43 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 1/24/19 2:40 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > But I disagree that a language can be considered insecure, just because Note: just a feature, not the language itself. > it lets you shoot in the foot. > The first thing I learned wh

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
uickly learnt to preprend "<" to the filename in the 1990s (the 3-arg version did not exist at that time, IIRC). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
t; > being broken in such a fundamental way is news to me. And I don't quite > see any way you could communicate that to me in a way other than a > run-time warning -- you don't re-read docs for basics you believe you > already know well. As for me, even though I knew that <

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
secure. :( Now, perhaps the number of such scripts is close to 0. I don't know. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
e-with-null-bytes-in-serialized-instances (IMHO, it would be safer if Perl did this everywhere.) -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
eel free to mail > off-list. Either way, the fact remains that if untrusted/unsanitised > input is being passed into your @ARGV, then something is already > wrong. I recall that a part of the issue is that this wasn't documented (in addition to being unintuitive). As pure filenames, t

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
tuitive). As pure filenames, they are already sanitized: a filename that ends with "|" is perfectly valid. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Namespace for system users

2019-02-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 février 2019 13:10 +01, Philipp Kern : > Some core packages recently adding system users resorted to names like > systemd-$daemon and _apt, which both address my concerns - as you can > come up with simple rules like "no user might include [-_] in their > username". On the other hand I know

Re: Debian vs Linux namespaces, NMU lsb-base

2019-03-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 mars 2019 09:42 +01, Geert Stappers : > What would be the harm to the Buster release > if lsb-base got NMU > with > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=888743;filename=init-functions.diff;msg=37 > ? Wouldn't it break chrooted processes? But mostly, as the whole pattern

Re: Bug#888743: Debian vs Linux namespaces, NMU lsb-base

2019-03-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 mars 2019 14:40 +01, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud : >> Wouldn't it break chrooted processes? But mostly, as the whole pattern >> is broken, it seems to be a low-effort solution. > > Vincent: what scenario did you have in mind? For the first part, any daemon chrooti

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 avril 2019 14:46 +10, Ben Finney : >> yes, it can be done, but it is a lot more work for individual >> packagers. > > Sure. And, on the other hand, providing an APT repository for arbitrary > packages of unknown copyright status is also a lot of work to expect > disinterested volunteers to d

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 avril 2019 08:41 +10, Ben Finney : >> >> yes, it can be done, but it is a lot more work for individual >> >> packagers. >> > >> > Sure. And, on the other hand, providing an APT repository for arbitrary >> > packages of unknown copyright status is also a lot of work to expect >> > disinterest

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 mai 2019 23:53 -04, Sam Hartman : > >> As promised, I'd like to start a discussion on whether we want to > >> recommend using the dh command from debhelper as our preferred > >> build system. > > Sean> For those who haven't seen it, the original author of dh, Joey > Sean>

Re: Consensus Call: Do We Want to Require or Recommend DH; comments by 2019-06-16

2019-05-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 mai 2019 13:26 -04, Sam Hartman : > * People who make changes across the archive such as enabling hardening, > cross-building, bootstrapping, etc benefit significantly from more > uniformity in packaging practices. The time they spend working on > packages that use dh is significantly

Re: Consensus Call: Do We Want to Require or Recommend DH; comments by 2019-06-16

2019-05-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 mai 2019 12:04 +02, Jonas Smedegaard : >> > * People who make changes across the archive such as enabling >> > hardening, cross-building, bootstrapping, etc benefit >> > significantly from more uniformity in packaging practices. The >> > time they spend working on packages that use

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 27 mai 2019 16:15 +10, Ben Finney : >> If you just want to get upstream's idea of their package onto a system >> with their release schedule and their recommended dependency versions, >> there are better ways than getting a package into Debian. > > In the Debian mentors forum (that is, the chat

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 mai 2019 08:59 +08, Paul Wise : >> People using tools like fpm will never get familiar with our tools and >> will never be contributors. > > I enjoyed your blog post about pragmatic packaging using Debian's > tools instead of fpm, it seems like a good approach if one is > committed to using

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
nfig. From there, the dh's standard tools would > "just work(tm)" until dh_gencontrol where we have to inject the full > version (the commented lines works around that if re-enabled). > > @Vincent: Do you feel something like this would be helpful, useful and > doable? M

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 mai 2019 06:50 +00, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel : >> packages. While my Perl is a bit rusty, I can propose some "dh_fetch" >> helper for this if there is no huge opposition against this approach. > > why not a dh_uscan ? > > what is the fundamental difference between dh_fetch and what you can >

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-06-04 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 juin 2019 15:47 +01, Ian Jackson : > If not, how do you think the question you pose should be answered ? > Since it is a question of tradeoffs, with no definite right or wrong > answer, perhaps we should hold a GR ? What do you think the result of > such a GR would be ? > > I think such a G

Re: Question about Debian build infrastructure

2019-06-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 juin 2019 14:02 +08, Paul Wise : >> * I had to patch reprepro to support multiple versions: >> https://github.com/profitbricks/reprepro > > I think it would be very helpful to a lot of derivative distros and > small or private apt repositories if this patch could be merged > upstream and mad

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
one-off > designs. > > => Install gtk3-nocsd by default in all desktop tasks but Gnome. It's not > perfect but it helps. I have gtk3-nocsd installed on my machines, but I don't think a default install is a good idea, as its necessary use via LD_PRELOAD breaks *any* pro

Bug#930908: general: incorrect rules for %s in /etc/mailcap yielding potentially unquoted metacharacters

2019-06-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: general Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Affects: mutt The /etc/mailcap file contains many rules with '%s' instead of %s, for instance: text/*; less '%s'; needsterminal audio/ogg; ogginfo '%s'; copiousoutput This is incorrect. For instance, Mutt quotes th

Bug#930908: general: incorrect rules for %s in /etc/mailcap yielding potentially unquoted metacharacters

2019-06-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-06-22 10:51:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] > as seen in strace output: > > execve("/home/vinc17/bin/sh.screen", ["sh", "-c", "less > ''/var/tmp/_.txt''"], 0x564ffe666f40 /* 132 vars */) = 0 FYI, the sh.

Bug#930908: general: incorrect rules for %s in /etc/mailcap yielding potentially unquoted metacharacters

2019-06-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-06-22 10:51:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > execve("/home/vinc17/bin/sh.screen", ["sh", "-c", "less > ''/var/tmp/_.txt''"], 0x564ffe666f40 /* 132 vars */) = 0 > > i.e. the filename is eventually not quoted! &

Bug#930908: general: incorrect rules for %s in /etc/mailcap yielding potentially unquoted metacharacters

2019-06-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2019-06-22 10:51:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The /etc/mailcap file contains many rules with '%s' instead of %s, > for instance: > > text/*; less '%s'; needsterminal > audio/ogg; ogginfo '%s'; copiousoutput > > This is incorrect.

Bug#883393: ITP: jool -- Open Source SIIT and NAT64 Translator for Linux

2019-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #883393 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hey! Any progress on this? Do you need help packaging? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQJGBAEBCAAwFiEErvI0h2bzccaJpzYAlaQv6DU1JfkFAl0mDQYSHGJlcm5hdEBk ZWJpYW4ub3JnAAoJEJWkL+g1NSX5SVQP/2rf1gCpD3aw71BxPFf7xAzw

Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hey! Lintian got a new tag to enforce Policy 9.11: Packages may integrate with these replacement init systems by providing implementation-specific configuration information about how and when to start a service or in what order to run certain tasks at boot time. However, any package integrati

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2019 11:52 -07, Russ Allbery : >> Previously, we had a sort of agreement (through the TC decision) that >> such scripts should be maintained by people caring about them and we >> should only act on bug reports with proper patches to have them. > > I don't agree that this was ever the

Re: systemd services that are not equivalent to LSB init scripts

2019-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 juillet 2019 19:23 +01, Simon McVittie : > Some systemd system services are meant to start on-demand via socket > events (systemd.socket(5)), and can work via inetd on non-systemd-booted > systems. micro-httpd appears to be an example of this - I'm a bit surprised > there aren't more. Perhap

Re: systemd services that are not equivalent to LSB init scripts

2019-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 juillet 2019 12:30 -07, Russ Allbery : > There seems to be a clear infrastructure gap for the non-systemd world > here that's crying out for some inetd-style program that implements the > equivalent of systemd socket activation and socket passing using the same > protocol, so that upstreams

Re: Bug#932103: RFP: fuidshift -- remap a filesystem tree to shift one set of UID/GID ranges to another

2019-07-16 Thread Vincent Tondellier
On Tuesday 16 July 2019 23:11:24 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Nicholas D. Steeves: > > Package name: fuidshift > > Version : 3.0 > > Upstream Author : Name > > URL : https://github.com/lxc/lxd/tree/master/fuidshift > > License : Apache 2.0 > > Programming Lang: Go > >

Re: file(1) now with seccomp support enabled

2019-07-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 juillet 2019 17:18 +02, Christoph Biedl : > Upstream of the file package added seccomp support a while ago, and > probably everyone with even a small concern about security will agree > the file program, often being used on dubious or even doubtless > malicious input, should use seccomp to m

Re: file(1) now with seccomp support enabled

2019-07-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 juillet 2019 12:11 +02, Philipp Kern : >> Just a quick note: seccomp filters may need adaptations from one libc >> to another (and from one kernel to another as the libc may adapt to >> the current kernel). For example, with the introduction of "openat" >> syscall, the libc has started to us

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 août 2019 19:10 +02, Simon Richter : > For servers, the benefit is rather limited. There is no local user who > makes system-wide policy decisions, and hardware is not changing > dynamically either. The actual services provided are either implemented as > daemons (i.e. not microservices), or

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 août 2019 21:47 +02, Simon Richter : >> inetd performance is very low because it needs to spawn one instance for >> each connection. systemd socket activation has absolutely 0 overhead >> except on the first connection (where systemd needs to start the >> service). > > If you specify "wait"

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit

2019-08-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 août 2019 09:22 +02, Martin Steigerwald : >> Reality seems different. Almost nothing was using inetd (tftpd is the > > I note that you wrote "seems". But still: > > As if there would just be *one* reality. Actually there is. But I never > saw any human being being able to express it in word

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 août 2019 10:27 +02, Marc Haber : >>* Better restart semantics and monitoring of services/ways to configure >> restart. > > We have, however, failed to make use of that. "systemctl restart" is > nearly useless in Debian because a non-negligible part of our daemon > packages make systemd thi

Re: init.d scripts and unit files lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 15 août 2019 14:11 +02, Simon Richter : > So we might have to invent magic comments still and/or convinve systemd > people that it might be a good idea to have unit files that can support > both immediate and on-demand start. It's already the case. Require the socket for on-demand start, requi

Re: Git Packaging Round 1: Hopefully Easy Stuff

2019-08-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 août 2019 22:32 +00, Holger Levsen : >> I systematically turn off Gitlab MR support for projects I am involved >> in, because I am not confortable and efficient using it myself, it is > > what helps me is having a note with this line: > > git config alias.mr '!sh -c "git fetch $1 > merge-r

Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats

2019-08-30 Thread Vincent Cunningham
On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 12:20 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, August 30, 2019 12:05:45 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > > This lets you generate the patches for people on demand, but they aren't > > just sitting out there for anyone to look at whenever they want. > > > > I suppose it could b

Bug#939936: ITP: xtl -- basic tools (containers, algorithms) used for xtensor and xeus

2019-09-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: xtl Version : 0.6.5 Upstream Author : QuantStack * URL : https://github.com/QuantStack/xtl * License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Re: [Pkg-opencl-devel] opencl-icd virtual package(s)?

2023-06-18 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 18/06/2023 à 08:28, Rebecca N. Palmer a écrit : On 18/06/2023 03:37, Paul Wise wrote: Presumably any of the OpenCL ICDs work for most packages? For most OpenCL-using *packages* but not most *hardware*.  (Except for pocl-opencl-icd, which works nearly everywhere but is slow.) Perhaps ther

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-07-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-07-12 07:54, Gioele Barabucci wrote: 1) It's an extra layer. [...] 2) It's a layer that you cannot ignore when editing the config. [...] I'd also add 3) It requires Python and various Python libraries. At least the CLI tool does. In some circumstances installing Python and a bunch

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-08-05 17:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Should we give up on requiring a 'clean' target that works? After all, when 17% of packages are failing, it means that many maintainers don't depend on it in their workflow. Yes, please, this does not make sense anymore to enforce such a rule when it

nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx uploaded 8 days ago but not yet installed

2023-08-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
at happens? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-08-10 14:38, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 08/08/23 at 10:26 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: Are we ready to call for consensus on dropping the requirement that `debian/rules clean; dpkg-source -b` shall work or is anyone interested in sending lots of patches for this? My reading of the discuss

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
s manual documents how to install and use the Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library, version 4.2.0. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
that if the source has been modified, it may be possible that the second build succeeds but is incorrect. I suppose that you need to check that both builds are identical. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Bug#1052004: libcbor: requires source-only upload to transition

2023-09-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-09-15 21:04, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: Source: libcbor Version: 0.10.2-1 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=libcbor Issues preventing migration: Not built on buildd: arch amd64 binaries uploaded by bernat Not built o

Re: RFC/MBF: Dropping support for ifupdown hook scripts from network-manager package

2023-09-27 Thread Vincent Blut
> have no functional equivalent in NM or would actually conflict with builtin > functionality of NM. > > > So, the remaining list of packages which I plan to do a MBF for is: > aoetools > auto6to4 > avahi-autoipd > bind9 > chrony As you rightfully stated higher up, chrony already includes native NM-dispatcher scripts so you can remove it from the list of affected packages. Cheers, Vincent signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mutt removed from testing while the bug was closed (fixed)

2023-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-10-26 02:03:49 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mutt that mutt was > removed from testing on 2023-10-25, with a link to > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1473564/mutt-removed-from-t

mutt removed from testing while the bug was closed (fixed)

2023-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Closes: #1051563). - CVE-2023-4874 ("Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email). - CVE-2023-4875 ("Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message"). [...] -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.

Re: Clarification for broken packages in IPv6-only environments

2023-12-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-11-30 21:38, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Now I would like to know if being able to run in an IPv6-only environment is a must have feature for any debian package? I run an IPv6 only LAN on my home network, where I use `jool`, and `dns64-prefix`+`unbound` to interoperate with legacy IP space

Re: Clarification for broken packages in IPv6-only environments

2023-12-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-11-30 22:42, Dale Richards wrote: I recently submitted a patch for uvloop that was FTBFS on IPv6-only builds (#1024079) and it really didn't take very long. While building/running in IPv6-only environments is not currently mandated in the Policy it's a fairly safe bet that it could/should

Re: inability to resolve localhost to 127.0.0.1 in IPv6-only environments

2023-12-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-12-01 12:30, Simon McVittie wrote: This does not prevent to have 127.0.0.1. I don't think this is a good use of time to fix builds broken because there is no IPv4 loopback. This is the same kind of artificial conditions as the 1-core builders. Unfortunately, no, it's a bit more complicat

usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
give by the realpath command. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-14 19:46:58 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 18:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > POSIX says: > > > >   SHELL   This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's > >   preferred command lan

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-14 10:41:44 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > POSIX says: > > > SHELL This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's > > preferred command language interpreter. If this interpreter > >

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
/shells on my > system contains both the /usr/bin and the /bin paths, so I'm still at a > complete loss. Not for mksh. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-15 09:39:51 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:05:36 +0100, Vincent Lefevre > wrote: > >This is invalid. See > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=817168 > > That doesnt answer the question asked, it is a bug from 20

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-15 16:59:28 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:08:11AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Not for mksh. > > so the subject should be "mksh is broken with usrmerge"? No, because my bug report about mksh was closed because it is not

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
irement on what pathnames $SHELL may contain (in the case a same shell can be referenced by several pathnames, e.g. due to the /bin -> /usr/bin symbolic link) is not acceptable. Hence my post about this. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML -

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
o the path from passwd(5), which hopefully > is from shells(5). login(1) is not the only way to start a shell. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
a restricted shell, the user may set $SHELL to a non-restricted shell. Moreover, /etc/shells also contains restricted shells. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-15 16:17:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2024-02-15 14:14:46 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> and pkexec is essentially a type of sudo and should be unavailable to > >> anyone who is using a restricted shell. > >

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ere are no issues with aliases pathnames in this case. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

possible issues with downgrading and *.md5sums (was: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems)

2024-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I thought that the presence of /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums would be sufficient to detect issues. So, what's the point of these files? [1] https://wiki.debian.org/MaintainerScripts -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
y the end user / admin). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Policy: should libraries depend on services (daemons) that they can speak to?

2024-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
t... except by the Debian installer! This is inconsistent. So, in the present case, uuid-runtime wasn't installed by default, though libuuid1 was installed and had a "Recommends: uuid-runtime". But with the 64-bit time_t transition, libuuid1 got replaced by libuuid1t64 a f

Re: Policy: should libraries depend on services (daemons) that they can speak to?

2024-03-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
t; > Correct. This is tracked as bug#742977 Bug#742977 is about whether to mark installed packages as auto-installed or not. It is not about Recommends. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Wor

Firmwares (was Re: Bits from the DPL)

2024-04-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2024-04-01 18:05, Jonathan Carter wrote: The included firmware contributed to Debian 12 being a huge success, but it wasn't the only factor. Unfortunately, the shipped firmwares are now almost a year old, including for unstable. I am following the progress since quite a few years and I hav

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2024-04-01 12:44, Bastian Blank wrote: So in the end you still need to manually review all the stuff that the tarball contains extra to the git. And for that I don't see that it actually gives some helping hands and makes it easier. So I really don't see how this makes the problem in hand a

salsa web server broken?

2024-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Is the salsa web server broken? The display of https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/fail2ban is completely wrong, and https://salsa.debian.org/ gives an error 500 "We're sorry. Something went wrong on our end.". -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net

Re: salsa web server broken?

2024-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-05-24 11:51:15 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Am Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:23:44AM +0200 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > Is the salsa web server broken? > > > > The display of https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/fail2ban > > is completely wrong, and https:/

Re: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-05-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
dresses and the host names with "last" (I don't know whether there's a better way to get full information). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - compute

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