Re: Bug#714342: ITP: pytz -- World timezone definitions, modern and historical

2013-06-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/28/2013 02:42 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/28/2013 02:29 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Thomas Goirand >> >> * Package name: pytz >> Version : 2013b >> Upstream Author : Stuart Bishop >> * URL : https://pypi.python.

Re: Bug#714342: ITP: pytz -- World timezone definitions, modern and historical

2013-06-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/28/2013 02:29 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Goirand > > * Package name: pytz > Version : 2013b > Upstream Author : Stuart Bishop > * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz > * License : Apache-2 > Progra

Bug#714342: ITP: pytz -- World timezone definitions, modern and historical

2013-06-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: pytz Version : 2013b Upstream Author : Stuart Bishop * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : World timezone definitions,

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:58:20PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Does this only work for dput-ng thats currently in git? > > Nope, all versions of dput-ng have had this support :) > > It's just some DDs are reluctent to change the devel setup, so they do > have

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Where is the new procedure for giving Debian Maintainers upload privileges > documented? I just took a quick stab at this: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer?action=diff&rev2=119&rev1=118 Feel free to expand on it if needed. Th

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:58:20PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Does this only work for dput-ng thats currently in git? > > Nope, all versions of dput-ng have had this support :) > > It's just some DDs are reluctent to change the devel setup, so they do > have

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:58:20PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Does this only work for dput-ng thats currently in git? Nope, all versions of dput-ng have had this support :) It's just some DDs are reluctent to change the devel setup, so they do have the option of running it in place if th

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > It's not, really. It's a new command using the dak commands interface > (the same one that `dcut(1)` uses to rm / cancel uploads), so, it's only > natural that it's usable with dcut :) > > Currently, only dput-ng supports this, you can invoke `dcut` from > dput-ng in-pla

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:31:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > > Some examples from the man page: > > > >$ dcut dm --uid "Paul Tagliamonte" --allow glibc > >$ dcut dm --uid 0x0DEFACED --allow glibc linux --deny kfreebsd9 > > Uhh,

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Some examples from the man page: > >$ dcut dm --uid "Paul Tagliamonte" --allow glibc >$ dcut dm --uid 0x0DEFACED --allow glibc linux --deny kfreebsd9 Uhh, that should be changed to use the full fingerprint, please don't teach peop

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:54:37AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, Greets, Erik, > > Where is the new procedure for giving Debian Maintainers upload privileges > documented? It's not, really. It's a new command using the dak commands interface (the same one that `dcut(1)` uses to rm

DM Upload

2013-06-27 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, Where is the new procedure for giving Debian Maintainers upload privileges documented? I have found this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg8.html but that is a mailing list post and unfortunately fails as documentation. Even the DM wiki page points to th

Work-needing packages report for Jun 28, 2013

2013-06-27 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 489 (new: 7) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 153 (new: 3) Total number of packages request

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:28:15AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert a écrit : > > > I wished the respective report would have been sent to the upstream > > developers, > > not to Debian. We could have been a second resort when upstream does not > > react to the reports (not unlikely, admittedly). Now, the

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> BTW, the mails you have been sending with links to the crashes have > been going to publicly archived lists, not sure if you meant for that > to happen though? > I don't think the Mayhem team is at all to blame for that: we seemingly simply don't have the necessary information in place. For m

Re: system-wide crypto policies

2013-06-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/06/13 21:44, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Daniel Pocock: > >> However, are such issues at the discretion of package maintainers and >> upstream, or is it useful to have a uniform Debian approach to >> cryptographic strength? > > Keep in mind that RFC 4880 (OpenPGP) hard-codes SHA-1 in severa

Re: system-wide crypto policies

2013-06-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Pocock: > However, are such issues at the discretion of package maintainers and > upstream, or is it useful to have a uniform Debian approach to > cryptographic strength? Keep in mind that RFC 4880 (OpenPGP) hard-codes SHA-1 in several places, notably for key fingerprints. If there's a

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 27 June 2013 11:19:40 Alexandre Rebert wrote: > > I do not think that you should try to implement this immediately but > > from a Debian Maintainers point of view we now could present a case > > where it makes perfectly sense to use DEP5 formated copyright files and > > if we try to do

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Alexandre Rebert
> I do not think that you should try to implement this immediately but > from a Debian Maintainers point of view we now could present a case > where it makes perfectly sense to use DEP5 formated copyright files and > if we try to do this more strictly future tests could profit from it. For our pur

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Alexandre Rebert
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > The Debian Med team was flooded by about 50 mails which is hard to cope > in two weeks. You shouldn't have received that many emails. If we decide to report more bugs in the future (depending on the reactions from the community), we will mak

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Alexandre, On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:28:15AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert wrote: > I agree with you that it would have been best to contact upstream > developers instead of package maintainers. I couldn't find a tool > listing upstream developers for a given package however, and that's > why we con

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Alexandre Rebert
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > I wonder whether you have checked where the crash is caused, you have > sent several mails to me for every binary in your test run, but in > dmesg.txt you provided all of them are from the very same library. > This will cause lots of duplicates, an

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Alexandre Rebert
Hi > I wished the respective report would have been sent to the upstream > developers, > not to Debian. We could have been a second resort when upstream does not > react to the reports (not unlikely, admittedly). Now, the Debian maintainer > sees the findings two weeks before the bug is made publ

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Alexandre Rebert
> One such crash was reported on a small fluxbox tool to be manually run, > which used $HOME blindly. When it ran, it segfaulted, which is a bug, > yes. > > However, it's not security, and to see the bug tagged 'security' was > troubling - what oversight do you have to prevent the security team to

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Alexandre Rebert
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > BTW, the mails you have been sending with links to the crashes have > been going to publicly archived lists, not sure if you meant for that > to happen though? I realize only now that many emails (about 20% in our case), that are listed as pack

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:15:17PM +0200, "Steffen Möller" wrote: > > I wished the respective report would have been sent to the upstream > developers, > not to Debian. We could have been a second resort when upstream does not > react to the reports (not unlikely, admittedly). Now, the Debia

Aw: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Steffen Möller
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2013 um 14:21 Uhr > Von: "Paul Tagliamonte" > An: "Alexandre Rebert" > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:28:10AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert wrote: > > I am a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon

Bug#714271: ITP: opari2 -- OpenMP Pragma And Region Instrumentor - translation tool

2013-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: opari2 Version : 1.0.7 Upstream Author : Bernd Mohr * URL : http://www.vi-hps.org/Tools/OPARI2.html * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: C, C++, Fortran Description : OpenMP Pragma An

system-wide crypto policies

2013-06-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
There have been various discussions about GnuPG's default use of SHA1, e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612657 which impacts the archive pseudo-package but is also relevant for the gnupg* packages However, are such issues at the discretion of package maintainers and upstre

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
BTW folks there is another tool (bfbtester) already in Debian that does some testing of binaries for issues like crashes with long argument strings or environment variables and also insecure tmpfile usage. I'm running it on package uploads along with some other tools. http://packages.debian.org/si

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:28:10AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert wrote: > I am a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, and my team > has found thousands of crashes in binaries downloaded from debian > wheeze packages. After contacting ow...@bugs.debian.org, Don Armstrong ^^ wheezy :)

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 27/06/13 at 12:34 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 25-06-13 07:28, Alexandre Rebert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, and my team > > has found thousands of crashes in binaries downloaded from debian > > wheeze packages. > > Out of interest

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 25-06-13 07:28, Alexandre Rebert wrote: > Hi, > > I am a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, and my team > has found thousands of crashes in binaries downloaded from debian > wheeze packages. Out of interest, can you elaborate on the methodology you used in trying to find these

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Alexandre Rebert wrote: > Hi, > >> I understand. But two weeks might be a bit too short for the majority >> of those crashes. Many upstream authors don't get paid for working on >> their software. > > I first want to clarify the purpose of the two-week delay to mak

Bug#714248: ITP: python-jsonrpclib -- implementation of the JSON-RPC v2.0 specification

2013-06-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-jsonrpclib Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Josh Marshall * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonrpclib * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : imple

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Wise
BTW, the mails you have been sending with links to the crashes have been going to publicly archived lists, not sure if you meant for that to happen though? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Hope to use ticket system for maintaining/requesting cdn.debian.net

2013-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 26-06-13 03:46, Yasuhiro Araki wrote: > P.S.2 > I hope to attend f2f meeting at debconf2013. > But unfortunately I cannot attend it. > If teleconf, and other way meetings are open, I would like to join from > Japan. I don't know where that meeting will be on the schedule; but if it is in a roo