Bug#726701: general: apt-get install bootchart pybootchartgui command marking important packages for removal

2013-10-17 Thread tuck225
Package: general Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? - Fresh install of debian 7 netinst. Issue apt-get install command in root term

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 17:32:37 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > xy may only use a tiny bit, but the combination of apt-get, dpkg and > xy seems to cause problems. Its not just BeagleBones, there are x86 > machines with just 64MB still on sale. Ok, I went through the dpkg code, and have reduc

Bug#726698: ITP: puppet-module-puppetlabs-xinetd -- The xinetd module let you manage xinetd with Puppet

2013-10-17 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Bechtold * Package name: puppet-module-puppetlabs-xinetd Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : PuppetLabs * URL : http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/xinetd * License : GPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Descriptio

Work-needing packages report for Oct 18, 2013

2013-10-17 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: 532 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 162 (new: 12) Total number of packages reques

Re: Bug#726668: ITP: dtmf2num -- tool for decoding the DTMF and MF tones from PCM wave files

2013-10-17 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:40:33PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Dominik George > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > * Package name: dtmf2num > Version : 0.1e > Upstream Author : Luigi Auriemma > * URL

Bug#726668: ITP: dtmf2num -- tool for decoding the DTMF and MF tones from PCM wave files

2013-10-17 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: dtmf2num Version : 0.1e Upstream Author : Luigi Auriemma * URL : http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm * License : GPL-2+ Programming L

Bug#726660: ITP: morse2ascii -- tool for decoding the morse codes from a PCM WAV file

2013-10-17 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: morse2ascii Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Luigi Auriemma * URL : http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm * License : GPL-2+ Programming

Re: skipping bioinformatics on some architectures ? (was Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression)

2013-10-17 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:39:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:31:23AM +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > > > It’s actually apt/dpkg that takes that much memory because, > > you know, a database listing >3 binary packages in sid *does* take > > quite some RAM. W

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-17 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 16 October 2013 10:56, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst" > wrote: >>I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature for >>its purposes. > > eicar.com does not have a distributable license. Neither does the virus discussed in this t

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-17 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 16 October 2013 11:12, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:54:36 +0200, Dominik George > wrote: >>> Some of the source packages were caught on a gateway anti-virus scanner >>> while >>> downloading. >> >>Using a gateway anti-virus scanner for downloads from the Debian archive >>seems a

Bug#726393: solution via obfuscation

2013-10-17 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Perhaps this issue could be solved by manipulating source tarballs in question to obfuscate the problematic snippets. Eg, gpg --encrypt --symmetric --passphrase WhiteList ICKY-FILE This would be unpacked appropriately at build time. If the same issue comes up for binaries, a similar mechanism co

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-17 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
SEE 271...@bugs.debian.org Maybe insted of reading the file in memory concatenating then mmaping the resulting file will help in case of low memory Bastien Le 17 oct. 2013 13:43, "Jonathan Dowland" a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:31:23AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > So, this means t

skipping bioinformatics on some architectures ? (was Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression)

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:31:23AM +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > It’s actually apt/dpkg that takes that much memory because, > you know, a database listing >3 binary packages in sid *does* take > quite some RAM. We have the same problem on m68k, but you can’t do much > against that (exc

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:31:23AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > So, this means that, yes, you need a total of at least 128 MiB RAM+swap, > if not more, to use apt/dpkg in sid (and recent releases were not much > smaller). Managed with ~100M with squeeze (in VMs) — I remember because I recall yu

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Goodenough btconnect.com> writes: > xy may only use a tiny bit, but the combination of apt-get, dpkg and > xy seems to cause problems. Its not just BeagleBones, there are x86 > machines with just 64MB still on sale. SOL then. It’s actually apt/dpkg that takes that much memory because, you

Bug#726612: ITP: cpl-plugin-kmos -- ESO data reduction pipeline for KMOS

2013-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: cpl-plugin-kmos Version : 1.2.4 Upstream Author : MPG * URL : http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/kmos/kmos-pipe-rec

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-17 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, October 16, 2013 10:56, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst" > wrote: >>I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature for >>its purposes. > > eicar.com does not have a distributable license. I doubt that's relevant, because the

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-17 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, October 16, 2013 16:20, Hideki Yamane wrote: > As dpkg introduced xz compression by default, we can make whole > packages xz-ed now. I think it's worth to try, so propose it as > a release goal (I know it should be sent before its dead line, but > please read). Because dpkg >=1.17.0 al