Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

2010-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek | We don't really want extra -L options passed to the build for every | library that's installed to the multiarch lib dir. Does pkgconfig | filter these out? Not yet. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 14, Paul Wise wrote: > Kinda a dissapointing thread, but it reveals a few points: I see more handwaving than points. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > It could also report (i.e the code is there, but it's disabled > currently) on: > 7. RC bugs in stable > 8. Unfixed security issues (according to the security team tracker) Yummy, yes please! I'd suggest including oldstable RC bugs and se

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> The upstream default is that they are disabled.  The onus is on >> proponents to argue why this should be changed. > > The proposed rationale for the change is that SYN cookies are not used > until the SYN

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Frank Küster wrote: > Please read the archives. That has been discussed over and over.  By the > way, one thing you'll learn is to use terms that everyone understands > without problems, and that not everyone is using a "Desktop > envirnoment".  In my window manag

Bug#569751: ITP: libemail-sender-transport-smtp-tls-perl -- SMTP transport class for Email::Sender supporting TLS and AUTH

2010-02-13 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libemail-sender-transport-smtp-tls-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Fayland Lam * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Sender-Transport-SMTP-TLS/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: P

Bug#569748: ITP: libnet-smtp-tls-perl -- A Perl SMTP client library supporting TLS and AUTH

2010-02-13 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libnet-smtp-tls-perl Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Alexander Christian Westholm, awestholm at verizon dawt net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SMTP-TLS/ * License : Perl Programmin

Bug#569749: ITP: libnet-smtp-tls-perl -- Perl SMTP client library supporting TLS and AUTH

2010-02-13 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libnet-smtp-tls-perl Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Alexander Christian Westholm, awestholm at verizon dawt net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SMTP-TLS/ * License : Perl Programmin

Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

2010-02-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:48:39AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > Does this look OK for upload to experimental, and if not, what changes > are needed? FWIW, it was an unintended consequence of the wording of the policy change that static libs and .so symlinks are permitted in the multiarch dirs at

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lucas, thanks to you and Raphael for your DDPOMail efforts! I find them very useful. On Samstag, 13. Februar 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > It could also report (i.e the code is there, but it's disabled > currently) on: > 7. RC bugs in stable > 8. Unfixed security issues (according to the secur

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I just sent a batch of DDPOMail emails. Those emails are sent to Thank you for your work on this, it's definitely useful. > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > add more data (like the RC bugs in stable and th

Re: Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:46:31PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But we are constantly wondering where we should go from there. Should we > add more data (like the RC bugs in stable and the unfixed security > issues)? Or should we instead try to decrease the amount of data (to > increase the signa

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Craig Small: > > > While initially skeptical, I can see that under high TCP loads having > > some sort of connection is better than having no connection. Connections > > with large windows will be dropped, but they would be anyhow. > > This argument

Possible DDPOMail improvements?

2010-02-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I just sent a batch of DDPOMail emails. Those emails are sent to maintainers, co-maintainers and PTS subscribers, and report about "serious" issues in the packages. Currently, it reports about: 1. RC bugs in unstable 2. Release Goal bugs in unstable 3. Missing builds on some architectures (no

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Marschke wrote: >> Personally I think we should have gotten rid of the Debian menu years >> ago, I don't think my opinion is shared by many people in Debian >> though. >> > > It is truely kind of doubled effort to have the debian menu extra to the > actual > menu. The question is who w

732868 Brazilian ICUMSA45 High Seas / Spot Booking Offer

2010-02-13 Thread
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Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Craig Small: > While initially skeptical, I can see that under high TCP loads having > some sort of connection is better than having no connection. Connections > with large windows will be dropped, but they would be anyhow. This argument ignores the non-attack overload case. Lack of window sca

Re: Bits from the NM people

2010-02-13 Thread Jan Dittberner
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:49:31AM +0100, Andreas Marschke wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2009 00:08:20 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > Lets say this package is maintained on Launchpad that also "maintainance" > > > for debian or would this have to be on mentors.debian.org to be a valid > > > maintainan

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The upstream default is that they are disabled. The onus is on > proponents to argue why this should be changed. The proposed rationale for the change is that SYN cookies are not used until the SYN queue is full and at that point it is more useful to have new TC

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-02-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 07, Luk Claes wrote: > The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of > e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. So, how can this be done? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 18:24 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I'm going to agree with Bastian here. Single-user systems won't need > > this and system administrators can make their own choice. > I do not really disagree with your argument, but can you or the othe

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm going to agree with Bastian here. Single-user systems won't need > this and system administrators can make their own choice. I do not really disagree with your argument, but can you or the other people who oppose this explain more clearly why you consider en

Re: experimental buildd link gone?

2010-02-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 11:12 -0600 schrieb Steve M. Robbins: > The "links" box of the PTS used to have a link to the experimental > buildd logs. I think I used it last week but today it is not > there; c.f. http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gmp.html > > How can I see the logs? it’s only

ITP: kde-config-tablet -- implements a KDE configuration GUI for the Wacom drivers

2010-02-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: kde-config-tablet Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : Jörg Ehrichs * URL : http://kde- apps.org/content/show.php/kcm+tablet?content=114856 * License : GPL Programming

experimental buildd link gone?

2010-02-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The "links" box of the PTS used to have a link to the experimental buildd logs. I think I used it last week but today it is not there; c.f. http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gmp.html How can I see the logs? Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 00:42:09 +1100, Craig Small wrote: > My proposal is to change sysctl.conf so by default it will have TCP SYN > cookies ENABLED. Anyone is quite able to change this but the default is > proposed to be enabled. > > Before I make this change, I am emailling debian-devel for

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 16:08 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:42:09AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > Before I make this change, I am emailling debian-devel for comments. I > > am looking in particular for information about why it could be harmful > > (if it is). > > You forgo

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:42:09AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > Before I make this change, I am emailling debian-devel for comments. I > am looking in particular for information about why it could be harmful > (if it is). You forgot to mail the maintainer of the package you change the configuration

TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Craig Small
Hello, There has been a bug opened for a while to enable TCP SYN cookies by default. The current situation is /etc/sysctl.conf has this option, but it is commented out. The procps (sysctl.conf) bug is http://bugs.debian.org/520668 you may also like to read the discussion about tcp(7) man page at

Bug#569681: ITP: trac-wikirename -- trac plugin which allows to rename wiki pages

2010-02-13 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov * Package name: trac-wikirename Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Noah Kantrowitz * URL : //trac-hacks.org/wiki/WikiRenamePlugin * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : trac plug