Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-18 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Ian, Ian Jackson [2012-06-15 17:18 +0100]: > > I saw that coming: There would be little dispute about adding a > > header, but lots of difficulty to find a good name. :-) Perhaps we > > should think about an actual name for DEP-8 first (similar to what we > > had with DEP-5 -> "copyright 1.0

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I will be happy to get involved; upstream irqbalance is on my list > of things that are broken and needs to be fixed. Will try and get a hold Could you elaborate on this? > of past contributors to figure out what is happening. I know there was > tal

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I don't think compiling C code has been CPU bound since before I was > born (and I was born in the late 70s, so that's quite a while). C++ is a > different matter, but still. Bullshit. GCC uses a lot of CPU unless you compile without optimization, and is surprisingly slow

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-18 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:53:02 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 08:54 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Irqbalance project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/ > > The current Debian package is back at 0.56 (over 2yrs old) > > and upstream is now at version 1.0.3 >

Bug#678059: ITA: tilp2 -- Texas Instruments hand-helds <-> PC communication program for X

2012-06-18 Thread Albert Huang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Albert Huang * Package name: tilp2 Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Lionel Debroux * URL : http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Texas Instruments hand-helds <-> PC co

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 04:14:52AM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/10 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >> A lot of people (including you) said that tmpfs makes things faster. But > >> there were no examples of popular use-cases becoming faster because > >> of /tmp on tmpfs, so I had nothing to quote. > > >

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-18 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:10:46 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 20:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> >> > I want to announce restart-services here [1][2]. It's a script >> > that tries to restart all services that have had the

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Aaah, any packages that need maintaining? Has there been swearing before? I assume to private email addys. Jamie On 18/06/2012 22:12, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: I totally understand top posting from mobiles. Well, debian has improved, there was no swearing this time around, I don't think. Thick

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread jamie
In fact I didn't send it to both, I resent twice, a mistake as I thought the first email hadn't sent properly. Jamir Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: Dmitrijs Ledkovs Sender: Dmitrijs Ledkovs Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:40:52 To: Cc: Subject: Re: Ma

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18/06/12 21:25, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function > (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as > the stack - or code space! > > Jamie > > sorry, not to two mailing lists. to the same one twice i

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18/06/12 21:11, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function > (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as > the stack - or code space! > > Jamie > > Cross posting offtopic email to two mailing lists (ubun

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this > function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated > memory, such as the stack - or code space! The debian-devel mailing list is meant for development _of_

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this > function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated > memory, such as the stack - or code space! Assuming that the program uses memory correctly,

Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Hiya Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as the stack - or code space! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Hiya Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as the stack - or code space! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#678003: ITP: credns -- DNS(SEC) verification proxy

2012-06-18 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" [Note: DNSSEX has been recently renamed to credns.] * Package name: credns Version : 0.2.10 Upstream Author : NLNet Labs * URL : http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/dnssexy/ * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Re: Bug#677942: ITP: xz-java -- Java library with a complete implementation of XZ data compression

2012-06-18 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Do you happen to have such a pure implementation in a language likely to > be present on minimal ancient systems?  I'm afraid the only remotely sane > one found there is Perl (and as mirabilos said in a private conversation, > some BSDs lack

Re: Bug#677942: ITP: xz-java -- Java library with a complete implementation of XZ data compression

2012-06-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 06:10:30PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > * Package name: xz-java > Description : Java library with a complete implementation of XZ data > compression > > XZ for Java aims to be a complete implementation of XZ data compression > in pure Java. Do you happen to

new sections: education & metapackages

2012-06-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz reads: 2.1. Version 3.9.3.0 2.4 New archive sections _education_, _introspection_, and _metapackages_ added. And now I wonder under which section to move the debian-edu* packages to: "ed

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 20:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > > I want to announce restart-services here [1][2]. It's a script > > that tries to restart all services that have had their > > dependency packages updated. This is primarily useful whe

Re: Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > I want to announce restart-services here [1][2]. It's a script > that tries to restart all services that have had their > dependency packages updated. This is primarily useful when > security-relevant libraries get security releases. > > It'

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:39:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think that the sources-subvars target must function without any > Build-Depends-(Indep) installed because otherwise: Just as an aside, we now have Build-Depends-Arch in addition to Build-Depends-Indep. This means that Build

Announce: script to automatically restart services after update of dependencies

2012-06-18 Thread Tomas Pospisek
I want to announce restart-services here [1][2]. It's a script that tries to restart all services that have had their dependency packages updated. This is primarily useful when security-relevant libraries get security releases. It's using checkrestart from the debian-goodies package to do most of

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:53:49 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. P.S. Didn't mean to make anybody upset; I was a little bit tired back then, and I'm sorry that affected the way of me communicating with people. -- WBR, Andrew signatu

ifupdown should provide a way to disable interfaces configuration

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: ifupdown Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:53:49 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. > To avoid similar issues to arise again in the future, I wonder, would > it be feasible to implement something like Joss mentioned, i.e. some > sort of

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:36:48AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > It sounds to me that you have broken this behavior on purpose, where > > you could instead have added an interface to make disabling an > > interface more convenient than sed hackery (as mandated by policy). > > No. Also I'd like

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:23:25 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 19:38 +0200, Andrew Shadura a écrit : > > Also, it's network-manager who tries to be a replacement somehow > > compatible with ifupdown, not vice versa, so NM maintainers should > > take care of their p

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 19:38 +0200, Andrew Shadura a écrit : > Also, it's network-manager who tries to be a replacement somehow > compatible with ifupdown, not vice versa, so NM maintainers should take > care of their package to do things are they're supposed to be done in > a compatible way. N