Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 05:02:51PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Resolvconf supports both mode A and mode B and allows switching between them. > With resolvconf installed, (A) so long as a local forwarding nameserver is > running, resolv.conf points to this nameserver and thus rarely changes; but

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Russ Allbery
"Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" writes: > And DEP5 is fine as long as you don't hit a source wich makes it grow > above 12k+ lines. Then it becames a real PITA. This usually means you're doing it wrong. Comprehensive copyright-format 1.0 files for some of my packages with over 20 differen

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Friday 28 June 2013 13:28:59 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (2013-06-27 19:42:16) [snip] > So if adopted and up-to-date, it will be the correct (and will also be > up-to-date - that's obviously implied from it being, ahem, up-to-date). On a second thought

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Upstream-Contact was put into DEP-5 because it was already required >> contents in debian/copyright according to Policy, which says: >> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its >> co

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Friday 28 June 2013 13:28:59 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (2013-06-27 19:42:16) > > > 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

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright > information and distribution license in the file > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed > nor be a symbolic

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Upstream-Contact was put into DEP-5 because it was already required > contents in debian/copyright according to Policy, which says: > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright > information and di

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> BTW, -1 for duplicating information as Upstream-Contact in d/upstream >> as long as it resides in d/copyright. I'm fine if this field is moved >> from d/copyright to d/upstream but I'm against having the same value in >

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > BTW, -1 for duplicating information as Upstream-Contact in d/upstream as > long as it resides in d/copyright. I'm fine if this field is moved from > d/copyright to d/upstream but I'm against having the same value in two > different files. I

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:38:21AM +0200, Mathieu Parent a écrit : > > Dep12 [1] doesn't have a Security-Contact field. Should we add one? > (and maybe a Security-Submit?) Hi Mathieu, the contents of the debian/upstream files is open-ended. You can start anytime to document and promote the use

Bug#714412: ITP: python-pytest-instafail -- py.test plugin to show failures instantly

2013-06-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Barry Warsaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: python-pytest-instafail Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Janne Vanhala * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-instafail * License : BSD

Bug#714405: ITP: larch -- A tool to copy messages from one IMAP server to another

2013-06-28 Thread Martín Ferrari
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martín Ferrari" * Package name: larch Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Ryan Grove * URL : http://github.com/rgrove/larch * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : A tool to copy messages from one I

Re: system-wide crypto policies

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/06/13 09:34, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, June 27, 2013 22:16, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> 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 app

Bug#714382: ITP: libmodule-build-tiny-perl -- tiny replacement for Module::Build

2013-06-28 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-build-tiny-perl Version : 0.023 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Module-Bui

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-28 Thread Thomas Hood
Ian Jackson wrote: > The two designs lead to different sets of fixes. > > A. resolv.conf is a static file which changes only very rarely. > Implications: > 1. Existing DNS client applications do not need to change. > 2. DNS service should always be provided at a fixed address > 3. T

Bug#714378: ITP: libextutils-installpaths-perl -- module to make Build.PL install path logic easy

2013-06-28 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libextutils-installpaths-perl Version : 0.009 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUti

Bug#714375: ITP: libextutils-helpers-perl -- various portability utilities for module builders

2013-06-28 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libextutils-helpers-perl Version : 0.021 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-He

Bug#714374: ITP: libextutils-config-perl -- wrapper for perl's configuration

2013-06-28 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libextutils-config-perl Version : 0.007 Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-Con

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Alexandre Rebert schrieb: > 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. After contacting ow...@bugs.debian.org, Don Armstrong > advised us to contact you before submitting ~1.2K

Re: system-wide crypto policies

2013-06-28 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > 2. http://www.dsd.gov.au/publications/csocprotect/sha-1_deprecated.htm > When you read gov or NIST recommendation you need to take into account the fact that they need to keep the current signatures to be still cryptographically strong in 1

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:28:59PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > But even if adopted and up to date, it doesn't means that's the > > correct way of dealing with upstream. Many addresses will be of former > > developers, and in most situations it will not be the best way to > > contact upstr

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-06-28 00:07:55) > 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

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (2013-06-27 19:42:16) > 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 p

Re: Anonymous svn does not work any more

2013-06-28 Thread Roland Mas
Paul Wise, 2013-06-28 17:23:53 +0800 : > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> Did I missed something? > > Did you mean to send this to ad...@alioth.debian.org? Given how such has repeatedly asked for help over the years, the increased visibility may not be a bad thing. >

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:38:21AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: > > Dep12 [1] doesn't have a Security-Contact field. Should we add one? > (and maybe a Security-Submit?) +1 BTW, -1 for duplicating information as Upstream-Contact in d/upstream as long as it resides in d/copyright. I'm fine if thi

Re: Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-28 Thread Mathieu Parent
2013/6/28 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 (no

Re: Anonymous svn does not work any more

2013-06-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Did I missed something? Did you mean to send this to ad...@alioth.debian.org? I'm guessing that it was either deliberate or a consequence of the recent upgrade of alioth to wheezy. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UN

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-28 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 28.06.2013 05:51, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > After reading the man page my sponsor and I agreed that he should run: > >dcut dm --uid 'er...@mega-nerd.com' --allow libsndfile --allow > libsamplerate --allow sndfile-tools > The correct syntax is dcut dm --uid 'er...@mega-nerd.com'

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/28/2013 10:46 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > 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 0x0DEFA

Anonymous svn does not work any more

2013-06-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm aware that there was some change of the VCS location and that also lintian recommends using svn://anonsvm.debian.org/svn instead of svn://svn.debian.org/svn. Today I realised that the later even stoped working when realising that $ svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/p

Re: system-wide crypto policies

2013-06-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, June 27, 2013 22:16, Daniel Pocock wrote: > 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