Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> >> Based purely on security evaluations by others that I was able to find on >> the web, FFmpeg appears to be better at the moment than libav on the >> security front (although libav appears to be trying

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler that handles ssh key passphrases

2014-07-31 Thread tony mancill
On 07/31/2014 02:59 PM, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:17:43 -0700, > tony mancill wrote: >> I contacted the upstream author (on the cc: - hi Frank), and his concern >> with the passphraseless key trigger mechanism is precisely that you >> don't have a passphrase. The key is unprot

Re: Bug#756669: ITP: kalendas -- Calculations of calendar and Julian Date

2014-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Mike Molina wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Owner: Miguel Molina > > * Package name: kalendas > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : Miguel Molina > * URL : https://gi

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 01, Russ Allbery wrote: > I personally don't have enough information to know why libav was chosen > instead of FFmpeg, and the discussion on debian-devel so far has mostly > come from FFmpeg advocates. So there's probably another side to the story > that hasn't been stated here yet. Proba

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Norbert Preining
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: > upstream conflict, but this is just wrong. There is *nothing* unethical > about reusing the library names and sonames when forking. In fact, the Besides, when changing APIs and breaking interaction with other programs that rely on the original API. Y

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:50:26AM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > I'm all for forks but if you do a fork, at least you do it with ethics: > different library names, sonames, etc. I have nothing resembling an informed opinion on the libav vs. ffmpeg upstream conflict, but this is just wrong.

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler that handles ssh key passphrases

2014-07-31 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jeroen Dekkers's message of 2014-07-31 14:59:48 -0700: > At Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:17:43 -0700, > tony mancill wrote: > > I contacted the upstream author (on the cc: - hi Frank), and his concern > > with the passphraseless key trigger mechanism is precisely that you > > don't have a pass

Work-needing packages report for Aug 1, 2014

2014-07-31 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: 600 (new: 10) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 137 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I personally don't have enough information to know why libav was chosen > instead of FFmpeg, and the discussion on debian-devel so far has mostly > come from FFmpeg advocates. So there's probably another side to the story > that hasn't been

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > Based purely on security evaluations by others that I was able to find on > the web, FFmpeg appears to be better at the moment than libav on the > security front (although libav appears to be trying to catch up). Hello everybody

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Pau Garcia i Quiles writes: > So had the proposal been "hey, let's replace libav with ffmpeg", would > you vote "yes" ? Only one library to maintain and review, and it happens > to have good upstream support And replacing libav with ffmpeg is easy > and the ffmpeg maintainer is committed to help

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > How is it better to have libav, which does a lot less security > > bugfixing, in? > > It's not. > > However, what was proposed was having *both* of them, not dropping libav > in favor of FFmpeg. > So had the proposal been "hey, let's replace

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Pau Garcia i Quiles writes: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> No FFmpeg security update is “minor”. >> Almost each ffmpeg security bug is a code execution one. Almost each >> and every one of them is hard to backport. >> Those 10 security updates might represent mor

Bug#756669: ITP: kalendas -- Calculations of calendar and Julian Date

2014-07-31 Thread Mike Molina
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Miguel Molina * Package name: kalendas Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Miguel Molina * URL : https://github.com/mikemolina/kalendas * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: Per

Bug#756667: ITP: ruby-json-spec -- Ruby library that provides JSON helpers for RSpec and Cucumber

2014-07-31 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: ruby-json-spec Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Steve Richert * URL : https://github.com/collectiveidea/json_spec * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby libra

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler that handles ssh key passphrases

2014-07-31 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:17:43 -0700, tony mancill wrote: > I contacted the upstream author (on the cc: - hi Frank), and his concern > with the passphraseless key trigger mechanism is precisely that you > don't have a passphrase. The key is unprotected and subject to > theft/unauthorized use. This

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Didier, On 31.07.2014 22:36, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le jeudi, 31 juillet 2014, 22.19:28 Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit : How is it better to have libav, which does a lot less security bugfixing, in? Our security team has to prepare the libav updates over the lifetime of wheezy anyway.

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josselin, On 31.07.2014 21:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 30 juillet 2014 à 00:39 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : I must have failed to make my point again. :( No, you are the one who misunderstands the point. Thanks for sharing your opinion. As far as I know there are hund

Debian Changelogs - was: Re: Bug#756582: new syntax error when invoking "udevadm test" breaks installing/ upgrading

2014-07-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> This is caused by this, change between the afforementioned versions, > which is also not mentioned in the package's changelog: ^ Exactly! I cannot stress this further enough, please always document _every_ change you make to the packaging i

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 31 juillet 2014, 22.19:28 Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit : > How is it better to have libav, which does a lot less security > bugfixing, in? Our security team has to prepare the libav updates over the lifetime of wheezy anyway. Introducing ffmpeg in jessie (with or without dropping libav)

Bug#756654: ITP: rohc -- RObust Header Compression (ROHC) library

2014-07-31 Thread Simon Paillard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Paillard * Package name: rohc Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : Didier Barvaux * URL : http://rohc-lib.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : RObust Header Compression (ROHC) library

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > No FFmpeg security update is “minor”. > > Almost each ffmpeg security bug is a code execution one. Almost each and > every one of them is hard to backport. > > Those 10 security updates might represent more work than 100 *really* > minor

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 30 juillet 2014 à 00:39 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : > I must have failed to make my point again. :( No, you are the one who misunderstands the point. > As far as I know there are hundreds of security updates (for all > packages together) in the lifetime of a stable release. Co

Re: Bug#756446: ITP Backgammon2 - a C# implementation of Backgammon game

2014-07-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 07:04:42PM +0200, Alexander Alemayhu wrote: > > The name is bad too. > > But this is just an RFP, so... > Why is the name bad? Too generic. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#756446: ITP Backgammon2 - a C# implementation of Backgammon game

2014-07-31 Thread Alexander Alemayhu
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:35:18PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > The name is bad too. > But this is just an RFP, so... > Why is the name bad? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: bzip2 and multiarch transition

2014-07-31 Thread santiago
El 28/07/14 a las 21:10, Bastian Blank escribió: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:59:26PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > I guess you could offer lib32bz2 as a transitional package on the 32bit > > arch, depending on libbz2 of its own arch and vice versa for lib64? > > Since when does apt consider a:am

Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk , 2014-07-30, 22:26: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! apt-transport-https Install these packages without verification? [y/N] E: Some packages could not be authenticated [...] But if the authentication troubles are really related to the HTTP->HTTPS switch, th

Re: Introducing vcswatch

2014-07-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:57:36 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014, at 08:19, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi Christoph, > > > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > > > https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch > > > > Cool! I wonder whether you could

Re: Introducing vcswatch

2014-07-31 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014, at 08:19, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch > > Cool! I wonder whether you could add a field where you can seek for > package maintainer address (since if I