Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ian Jackson [150227 16:39]: > Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable > code?"): > > Compare that to the straightforward case of just building a dynamic > > instead of a static library with some simple: > > No-one is prop

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
which what version and being able to do a security update without recompiling anything but that library). So I really do not see what advantage in that case PIC code in the .a file has, while not having it there avoids many possible mistakes. Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
2(); > main.c: printf("%d %d\n", r1, r2); > main.c: return 0; > main.c:} > [...] > + gcc -Wall main.c -L. -lbar1 -lbar2 You forgot to change that line as I said to change it. main.c now uses libfoo1 and libbar2, so in my example I build against those. Now you only

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [150222 21:51]: > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > > This is wrong. If libbar.so needs libfoo.a then libfoo.a does not > > need to be PIC: > > > echo 'int foo(void) {return 17;}' > foo.c > > echo 'int bar(vo

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Simon Richter [150222 21:19]: > Am 22.02.2015 um 20:18 schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > > > echo 'int foo(void) {return 17;}' > foo.c > > This code just happens to not generate any data references, so none of > the forbidden reloc types are emitted. You can add

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ian Jackson [150223 20:09]: > Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable > code?"): > > Jeff Epler [150220 00:19]: > > > * libbar has a stable API, so it should be shipped as a .so, > > >but if it links l

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
dynamic library, this is a very good point to be made against including anything using it). Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150222191833.ga4...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
that would totally legit for a compiler in cases src points to anything else.) For dest things are a bit more complicated. If the alignment is wrong gcc might replace the code with anything it wants. Otherwise that memory might afterwards be regarded as lzo_memops_TU2_struct and accessing it as a

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t;doobar-1.2_3_4". The current sid version has some combinations (for the different parts of the version needed for the different older schemata there are currently %v %u %e %f %V %U %E) but yet none which replaces anything in versions with "%", which will make it interesting to c

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [141114 12:34]: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog [14 22:26]: > > > Helper tools should usually rely on the output of `dpkg-vendor --query > > > vendor` > > > to find out the name of the current

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
thers edit the file manually > and use tools like `debcommit` to reuse the changelog entry in the > Git commit. > > Helper tools should however configure the Git repository so that merges > of the `debian/changelog` file are handled by `dpkg-mergechangelogs` as > this will make

Re: dgit and git-dpm

2014-11-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
mits. Try detecting the adding or removel of an empty file with git diff for example. Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: dgit and git-dpm

2014-11-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
BTS and changed debian/rules the way described in debian/changelog. Why should I look at the debdiff? I know I changed nothing else."? Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-10-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s should make it easier to either have arguments that persuage people or even better lead to solutions that improve the situation more generally (I'm quite sure the are aspects that can be improved, just that lowering Valid-Until times is detrimental). Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ymbols" is not enough. It is either "both must always have had versioned symbols" or "both must have versioned symbols now and every binary linked against either must have been built (or rebuilt) after the symbols got versioned". Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-06-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t currentl too much software uses something different to -O2 for no good and too often bad reasons). Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ot;3.0 (native)" format to "3.0 (tarball)" or > anything elese, and we are done. And brake almost everything? That suggestion is almost equivalent to just forbidding 3.0 (native) packages completely for the next decade. Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
anges. This answers the question why you want to use a 3.0 (native) package. But the real question here is: Why do you want to use a version with "-" for such a package? Bernhard R. Link -- F8AC 04D5 0B9B 064B 3383 C3DA AFFC 96D1 151D FFDC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ion that can just willy-nilly copy stuff around without caring for the law and hoping noone will find out or just pay the authors off if they find out. And our users are not really helped if the software they depended on suddenly is no longer available because noone cared for the license before.

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [131227 18:53]: > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > * Russ Allbery [131224 01:42]: > > >> On the contrary, it's Debian's insistence on following an idiosyncratic > >> license interpretation that's creating the supposed

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ot;idiosyncratic". How about using "interpretations I do not like". Thanks in advance, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131225125243.ga4...@client.brlink.eu

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
am that invokes undefined behaviour is a bug. And even if the library was fixed, as long as the program has undefined behaviour, every future gcc version is still free to give it any behaviour it choses to. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: new hashes (SHA512, SHA3) in apt metadata and .changes files?

2013-08-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
non-md5sum hashes in Sources indices. reprepro for example only tries to support source indices without "Files" (i.e. md5sum hashes) since 4.12.0 (i.e. since wheezy). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
n constructed to make it easier to understand how ugly some harmless looking restriction can become. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Stefano Zacchiroli [130710 13:07]: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 05:41:16PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > No, there is a really important difference. With GPL you only have to be > > careful when you give binaries to anyone, that you also give the source. > > This is a

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
at closes a long outstanding bug titled "provide a > license port for the Software-as-a-Service era". And adding DRM to the browser is just closing a long outstanding bug titled "please cripple my system enough so that content providers will take my money"? Bernhard R

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
moving stuff if their license changes can make sense in many situations. And doubly so for AGPL. (I'll never understand why people consider it free software, I'd not even allow the term freeware for it). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

2013-06-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
at uses more words as necessary, while compiler options are neccessary, without them users of the software cannot get help in forums or channels when they have problems compiling the software and with build logs porters can often hardly help if the old buildd log contains no information. Bernha

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ctually doing. With postfix the config is just black magic, where one has hardly any chance to understand what it does and how to change it to do what you want to change. [1] And those can simply install postfix and be done with it. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: default MTA

2013-06-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to doubt this is possible. Actually, it is possible to block telnet (and I've seen some ISPs do it). In unrelated news, using telnet is a bad idea. If you want to connect to some port and see what you get, use netcat. Telnet is not a tool to show things coming from a port but a tool to speak

Re: [clang] Report bugs on packages failing to build with clang

2013-06-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
misleading error messages in this case, I'd not be surprised if there are some more. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-01/msg0.html Those arguments seem to be mostly related to tampolines, which is mostly an argument against having pointers to nested fun

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
rder in a language the kitchen clerk cannot read, so the kitchen clerk will pass it to the person responsible for reading obliterated orders and this person you can tell it either give the order to the kitchen doing potatoes or the kitchen doing fries depending on what is wanted. Bernhar

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
om kitchen parts with only the transparent tape for office use. The only positive thing you can say about Postfix' configuration is that it might be better than sendmail's. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
re" and "pay for every copy that was made". Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130514212524.ga3...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
where we're mounting /usr in the initramfs rather than > having it on the rootfs, there's no practical difference to the > current status quo (and this is intentional). The only change is > that we provide the guarantee that /usr is available before init > starts. Or in other

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t;I do it differently" or "I do not care" from your side is hardly anything someone can counter with technical arguments, so you will not see many. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s correct while making the low-quality (or obsolete) stuff the norm. Since C99 there is hardly any reason left to have headers differing with the architectures. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
and cowbuilder already. That's why I think maintainers should not only build in pbuilders and cowbuilders, but give their packages some actual testing. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ion to read the Vcs control fields and make a > clone for a traditional source package's repo. sudo apt-get install devscripts debcheckout source-package-name Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e heavily over time and get more and more specific. In some years we might not be able to switch to some other builder tools as too many packages depend on the specifics of the ones we currently have. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Longbons [130425 18:27]: > The problems with the way Debian does it are: > - debian/ is a subdirectory of the extracted source tree. Why do you think that is a problem? > - Because of the above, debian/rules tries to know about backwards steps. What are "backwards steps"? > - There

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e important argument pushing the scales in the other direction, but at the end of the day, the normal system administrator wants one package management tool for all their software (or at least as few as possible) and as few copies/different versions of common code (aka libraries, modules, ...) aroun

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
by faulty memory, faulty busses, overheated mainboards or CPUs) and not to content on the disc itself). So while incomplete .md5sums are definitely not nice and worse then complete files, I do not see how that could be worse than not having any .md5sum files. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUB

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
olchain packages, while everything providing programs to be in their respective section). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130102090022.ga5...@client.brlink.eu

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ave a rule there at all). Another question: Have you considered asking for a archive Section for those packages? I guess with no special section yet all those packages would be section libdevel as they are for static linking only, wouldn't they? Bernhard R. Link -- To

Re: unsafe use of gpg

2012-12-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e some default options to things like --auto-key-locate (and with any new options in that direction that might still be added to gpg). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
initrds on all release architectures? Squeeze was still released with some kernels without initrd support if I remember correctly. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Really, ...

2012-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [121129 21:14]: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:22:41PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > As our world has not > > yet seen bug-free software handling every single situation the authors > > did not think about properly, the expectation of what ha

Re: Really, ...

2012-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ess in a short time frame makes sure that there is a big opposition (which will look for you like it has no arguments, as no real arguments against systemd are accepted.) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a loss" makes it quite hard to take anything else you say seriously. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121128065215.ga14...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
an extra permission for a copy shop you bring your document in to use that font. And stuff like that. I.e. most stuff will non be suitable for Debian main. Some stuff might be suitable for non-free. Many things will not be distributable at all. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ote for wishlist severity. Ambiquity about lines starting with from in mboxo format is the same like storing the value 0007 in an integer and getting 7 back when asking for the value. Or like storing a filename in a FAT filesystem and getting it back when asking for a file with the name convert

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Andreas Tille [121031 09:43]: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:04:23AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Who of us never put some unimportant bug that would need some longer > > investigating in a row to make sure it is actually not a bug and > > forgot to post a little no

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
were so clear when a package is neglected and when not, we could just do without the whole waiting period and giving the maintainer chance to object and simply hijack the package directly. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121031080420.gb11...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
or function argument passed as register) no longer stored anywhere. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121028163707.ga19...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
tion you get by locally rebuilding the needed libraries with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip" and installing those. (Sadly not all libraries support noopt, but it's getting much better as a side effect of the current hardening effords). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bugs filed in unexpected places

2012-10-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s a much more logical place, easier to find, harder to miss. Better collect the data to show them in some central place also instead. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
another argument: having the files actually uploaded means it is easy to add additional checks. (Like starting with making sure the list of files does not differ between the two versions, or some check to see only versions of generated dependencies differ but not the packages depended and so on).

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Unless you are arguing that people locally modifying their packages are supposed to get security problems). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
and all the build-conflicted packages not installed is a critical bug. Recreating binary packages uploaded by maintainers has some merrits, but this is definitely not one of them... Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Wouter Verhelst [121013 10:56]: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an > > argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think they can use that > > information for security.

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
de where it uses DPKG directly. Everything doing something like that can also create those sha2 sums on their own and use them. Using the debsums system (which has no security part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
l tendency in gtk/gnome world to consider anything not in their primary picture as obsolete and/or legacy and thus not worth to support. So users outside Debian would profit more to push patches to all programs to properly prefer HOME instead of hoping to persuade upstream of the library (and Deb

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
tory which it obviously almost but not quite does not at all.) The documentation for g_get_home_dir[1] also documents what a proper program can do, it's a simple: const char *homedir = g_getenv ("HOME"); if (!homedir) homedir = g_get_home_dir (); instead of using get_get_hom

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
about hardware usually be kept away from chroots? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120921232531.ga20...@client.brlink.eu

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
onding architecture is not quite a good solution ( if you want to make it even better, you can set up a regular private rebuild on that architecture to make sure it still is buildable all the time... ;-> ) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t a serious bug in another architecture is just a case of a serious bug that does not yet show up on the more common architectures or only very seldom, but lurking in the dark, waiting till it can also hit your "more users" later if ignored now. Bernhard R. Link [1] As a C

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
oes not take much time. (There is a lot of unmaintained software out there, but as I said, not much difference to getting any other patch in). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
e freedom of our users, perhaps they are not really a loss. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120818174632.ga8...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
hat already show a mime type before you open it) is simply introducing a security bug. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-06-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
an anything I think I could have written. After you were closing two bug reports by just dismissing the issue, a "if that gets closed again" is a totally objective way to describe expectations. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-06-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Bernhard R. Link" Package name: acpi-support-minimal License : GPL2+ Description: minimal scripts for handling base ACPI events This package contains minimal scripts to react to various base ACPI events such as the power button. I

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

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t more strange than not using make but some python or shell script to do the actual compilation or any other of the many strange things found in software packages. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

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

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
into LDFLAGS or or or. It's all mostly trivially done but there are quite a number of variants. Anything not having CPPFLAGS is usually simply so non-standard that a human has to look at it anyway and no automatic approach will help. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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

2012-06-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it was introduced by > Autoconf. However, it is now embedded into the implicit rules of GNU Make, > so every Makefile that doesn't override the rule for compiling a .c file > to a .o file uses CPPFLAGS. Where "now" means since 1990. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSU

which flags to pass to gcc/g++

2012-06-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
rocess anything, pass CPPFLAGS. Note that CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS are in the format as you need to give them to gcc/g++, i.e. every ld option not understood by gcc needs a -Wl, and so on... Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
kage is also unlikely to have happened). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120613163535.ga30...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
default answer of 'yes' should > solve the problem, imho - the slightly more experienced user can then > at least opt for 'no'. That's called policy.d. (though I feel like repeating others here). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120603115132.ga4...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
t run by default (or at last by default once its configuration is complete) means I have to tweak another config file, which is uncessary annoying work. Bernhard R. Link [1] Exceptions being specific things like unconfigured dhcp servers, but I never met one that would run by default as it f

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
o configure /tmp differently, the user is able to set TMPDIR differently. my 0.02: I personally think having tmpdir on /tmp might be a good default for new systems. If systems get changed to that from something else on upgrade without asking, I consider that quite an ugly bug. Bernhard

Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
; format is: "don't use it, it's an ugly hack". Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120519090516.ga5...@client.brlink.eu

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
.0 (quilt)" source package out of that. And yes, git is the better quilt for managing a source tree. Which is why I use it exclusively to work on my "3.0 (quilt)" packages. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: problems with quilt and 3.0 (quilt) format again

2012-05-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in itself. Requiring patched being able to applied without any magic (which might hide mistakes and result in changes different from the intended ones) is a reasonable thing to do. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
le that you do not care about their arguments because you they are not insiders, which this is from some point of view, is the noise that makes an discussion in my eyes the most unwelcoming and thus a good reason to only expect noise and no more signal. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120501 18:18]: > David Bremner writes: > > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > >> My suggestion to everyone feeling the need to tell anyone on a public > >> mailing list that they should shut up because they are no contributors > >&g

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
s, hoping the other side will either give up or will be overruled by the TC at the end. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502124909.gb18...@server.brlink.eu

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
l of technical discussion and have little chance to come back to it till the discussion will be over, but once that point is reached there really is no sense it keeping it up. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-05-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ening build flags via dpkg-buildflags. These flags enable various protections against security issues such as stack smashing, predictable locations of values in memory, etc." It's not "Every package even if only hardly being of a quality to be included in a distribution must support harden

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-04-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
#x27;$(CXXFLAGS)' CPPFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS)' or CFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)' or CFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)' or even something like CFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)'. So what we have is already the most efficient default and also the only one alw

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Markus Wanner [120414 13:32]: > On 04/14/2012 11:22 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > Sure, they are also much more common than GLR. And if you are "just" > > interested in parsing and not a computer scientists, there's a chance > > you've never heard about any of them. > > Based on two votes for extend

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
re important part of freedom than just licenses. What good is being allowed by law to modify your system if the system itself treats you as a child that should not mess with anything? Where should future free software writers origin from if there is a barrier erected between users and 'ex

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
when compiling c++ code. In the easy case of only having c++ code that means you might need to give CXXFLAGS into a variable named CFLAGS. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Quilt patch for patching things in the debian folder

2012-03-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
is a nice easy way, especially because packaging information has a canonic place and is not changed by patches. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

the advantages of supporting many architectures.

2012-02-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Uoti Urpala [120227 22:02]: > Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > While there might be some problems originating from some architecture, > > but most problems you will see and people claim to be "problems specific > > to fringe architectures" are actual bugs in the progra

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-02-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Uoti Urpala [120226 20:20]: > If someone complained about a nontrivial s390-specific problem in a > context where I was upstream, I'd likely ignore him. In the Debian > context, people other than porters should not be obligated to do > significant work to resolve problems specific to fringe arch

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
ur init script, and you now have the benefit of lots of eyes. So software will ever be without bugs. The question is not: Will it have bugs? The question is: What effects will bugs have? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
I guess you'd consider that > cheating. :-) If you want to know why something does not start then this won't help much. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Tollef Fog Heen [120224 10:45]: > ]] "Bernhard R. Link" > > * Tollef Fog Heen [120223 22:21]: > > > ]] "Bernhard R. Link" > > > Your shell is most likely implemented in C, but it's not like you sit > > > down and have to debug it eve

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Tollef Fog Heen [120223 22:21]: > ]] "Bernhard R. Link" > Your shell is most likely implemented in C, but it's not like you sit > down and have to debug it every other day. Why do you assume that you > need to do so just because policy is encoded in .ini-like files

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
not your opinion with insults I will not take much efford to fix your packages but rather try to get the packages I use in a working state. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

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