Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 19/06/2012 16:20, Alastair McKinstry a écrit : > While i'm still investigating, _something_ in the sid environment is the > real culprit and > I can't assign a bug to it yet until I pin it down. Has anyone seen a > similar issue elsewhere, > or got a hint as to how to handle it? I want to make

Bug#678229: ITP: tilem -- GTK+ TI Z80 calculator emulator

2012-06-19 Thread Albert Huang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Albert Huang * Package name: tilem Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : TilEm2 * URL : http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilem/ * License : GPL, LGPL, GFDL Programming Lang: C Description : GTK+ TI Z80 calculator emulator

Bug#678218: ITP: ocamlrss -- RSS 2.0 parser and printer for OCaml

2012-06-19 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvain Le Gall * Package name: ocamlrss Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Maxence Guesdon * URL : http://zoggy.github.com/ocamlrss/ * License : LGPL + BSD Programming Lang: OCaml Description : RSS 2.0 parser and pr

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:11:33 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: > Variables in the .bss section will by definition get initialized to 0. > For example, a C variable defined as "static typename varname;" must > get initialized to 0, and the compiler and linker will stick it in > the .bss section e

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:56:18 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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 thi

Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For those who do not read Planet Debian, here is the report from the Debian BSP in Salzburg (markdown/ikiwiki source, sorry for not re-formatting it :)) Participation and Results - --- - From June 15-17th we held a Debian Bu

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Josh Triplett
Andrew Shadura wrote: > By the way, it might be a good idea to fill .bss section with random > values intentionally for debug builds to detect non-properly-initialised > things more effectively :) Variables in the .bss section will by definition get initialized to 0. For example, a C variable defi

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:03:17 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Try gcc/g++ 4.6 instead of 4.7. Maybe check if "S-Lang load > path" (wherever that is stored) is initialized in a sane way. I had a > similar issue where an integer was 0 all the time - although not > being initialized with somethi

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > I've an interesting problem: bug #675125. > Its a grave bug against slang2, as it breaks jed, (and other things). > slang2-2.2.14-12+ (in sid) breaks jed for certain locales (C is broken, > *.UTF-8 look fine); > but slang2_2.2.14-10 (in testing) looks fine. > > The trouble is, while downgr

Bug#678168: ITP: python-astropy -- Core functionality for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python

2012-06-19 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher * Package name: python-astropy Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Erik Tollerud * URL : http://astropy.org * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python, C Description : core functionality for performing a

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:04:31PM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > repository but not still in a numbered version, so, I tried to use the > latest known version and add a ~TIMESTAMPgit... to the minor version > number, but debuild warns me about the version 0.1.0~2012..git-1 is > less th

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:04:46PM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > > I see several solutions there, and the hardening-wrapper one is in my > > opinion the worst one: it adds a build dependency and it uses own set of > > configuration variables, not compatible with dpkg-buildflags ones. > Yes

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
El 19/06/12 16:56, Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > I see several solutions there, and the hardening-wrapper one is in my > opinion the worst one: it adds a build dependency and it uses own set of > configuration variables, not compatible with dpkg-buildflags ones. Yes, it adds a build-dependency...

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:42:33PM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > > Why do you need hardening-wrapper? You should use flags set by > > dpkg-buildflags. > Because that > (http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#Notes_for_packages_using_CMake), > referred by lintian-info too. Using it I only need to

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
El 19/06/12 16:10, Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > Why do you need hardening-wrapper? You should use flags set by > dpkg-buildflags. Because that (http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#Notes_for_packages_using_CMake), referred by lintian-info too. Using it I only need to define "export DEB_BUILD_HARDENIN

Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I've an interesting problem: bug #675125. Its a grave bug against slang2, as it breaks jed, (and other things). slang2-2.2.14-12+ (in sid) breaks jed for certain locales (C is broken, *.UTF-8 look fine); but slang2_2.2.14-10 (in testing) looks fine. The trouble is, while downgrading to -10 fi

Bug#678142: ITP: libiniparser -- stand-alone ini file parsing library

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Stapelberg * Package name: libiniparser Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Nicolas Devillard * URL : http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/ * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C Description : stand-alone ini f

Re: On the (ab)use of the Misogyny field

2012-06-19 Thread marcel partap
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear Neil, Dear debian-devel list members, please accept my honest pardon for my infamous demeanor. It was meant as light-hearted joke, a mind fart - when I was done writing the three lines I almost ditched it, and obviously should have. After all,

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:04:31PM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > I have read the output of lintian-info -t about > hardening-no-fortify-functions, and it helps a lot. The software uses > Cmake as build tool, and the "hardening-wrapper" solution solved some > lintian warnings, but not the l

Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-19 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hi! I'm intending to package a new software for Debian [1]. I just completed most of the package work and have a lintian-error free package, but I still have a warning that is driving me crazy. I have read the output of lintian-info -t about hardening-no-fortify-functions, and it helps a lot. The

Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:19:43 +0200 marcel partap wrote: > [ > > net effect of the above is more likely to be that the urgency will be > > overriden on the britney side > ... ?hmm? debian has a britney side? long blondish hair, well curved? > niccce - *niie*--- :D > *cough* freezes suck^^^ ] >

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

2012-06-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2012-06-19 14:01, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:29 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 2012-06-19 13:59, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > > This implies that an "apt-get install library" needs to trigger that > > > restart. > > > Which means that apt-get needs to

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

2012-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:29 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello, > > On 2012-06-19 13:59, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > This implies that an "apt-get install library" needs to trigger that > > restart. > > Which means that apt-get needs to depend on restart-services. So either > > restart-servic

Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam D. Barratt writes ("On the (ab)use of the Urgency field"): > I realise everyone's waiting for news of the freeze (we're working on > it...) but please bear in mind that this is not an appropriate use of > the Urgency field: > >* Urgency high to beat the freeze. > > As mentioned in the

Re: new sections: education & metapackages

2012-06-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:55:42PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-06-19 at 08:48am, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > I'm personally in favour of education because I assume that's where > > users might seek first. I have no idea whather I'm right with this > > assumption. > > > > BTW, did I

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

2012-06-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, On 2012-06-19 13:59, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > This implies that an "apt-get install library" needs to trigger that > restart. > Which means that apt-get needs to depend on restart-services. So either > restart-services and checkrestart should go into the apt package, or apt > needs > to depe

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

2012-06-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 23:47 +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > 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

Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-19 Thread marcel partap
[ > net effect of the above is more likely to be that the urgency will be > overriden on the britney side ... ?hmm? debian has a britney side? long blondish hair, well curved? niccce - *niie*--- :D *cough* freezes suck^^^ ] #hacky day folks ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

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

2012-06-19 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:23:45 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tomas Pospisek writes: > >> 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 announc

On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, I realise everyone's waiting for news of the freeze (we're working on it...) but please bear in mind that this is not an appropriate use of the Urgency field: * Urgency high to beat the freeze. As mentioned in the last mail we sent to d-d-a (and several at various points before that)

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

2012-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 04:14:52AM +0300, Serge wrote: >> User cannot break the system filling /tmp on disk. But he can do that >> if he fills /tmp on tmpfs. So /tmp on tmpfs adds one more point of >> failure for servers. > > No, that's not true. The real danger in filli

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings writes: > 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

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

2012-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tomas Pospisek writes: > 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 rest

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:38:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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 th

Bug#678100: ITP: salome-{kernel,gui,med,geom,paravis,..} -- integration platform for numerical simulation

2012-06-19 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Cristau * Package name: salome-{kernel,gui,med,geom,paravis,..} Version : 6.5.0 Upstream Author : CEA, EDF R&D, Open CASCADE * URL : http://www.salome-platform.org/ * License : mostly LGPL Programming Lang: C++,