Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 16, 2016 1:30 AM, "gaffa" wrote: > > The firmware has a free license if you are to believe the WENCE file in the > kernel. > Ummm, just a guess but I think that would be talking about transferring ownership and not on reverse engineering (for instance).

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-15 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 14, 2016 5:11 PM, "Zlatan Todoric" wrote: > > > > On 01/14/2016 09:11 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > > Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold > > exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre > > software. > > > > So I think it is very

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 Thread shawn wilson
Ok then, I stand (doubly) corrected. Thanks On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 02/10/14 17:30, shawn wilson wrote: >> I'm pretty sure dash never got a rewrite? So this just happened to be >> a "feature" that got ripped out of dash. > >

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > shawn wilson writes: > >> I hate the idea of dash. It's not more secure (see vmware cve for an >> example) and I think it was more of an accident than anything else this >> didn't hit dash too. > > Th

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 30, 2014 7:59 PM, "Russell Stuart" wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 13:08 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > You really really should be looking at replacing any > > ash variant with mksh. It’s not that much bigger (at > > least if you add -DMKSH_SMALL to CPPFLAGS and build > > with klibc or

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-26 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 25, 2014 3:18 PM, "Matthias Urlichs" wrote: > > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault: > > Sounds crazy to me. > > > Definitely. This is now out in the wild; exploits which simply replace > echo or cat-without-/bin are going to happen. :-/ > Actually, what I've seen reported in the wild have been wget a

Re: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 25, 2014 9:36 PM, "Russ Allbery" wrote: > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > Since I’m pretty sure we haven’t uncovered all of bash’s “features”, > > wouldn’t it be a good opportunity to make a release goal of killing all > > scripts with a #!/bin/bash shebang? > > That may be overkill, but

Re: Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file > > Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link. ... here: h

Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Shawn Wilson
My gut reaction was that #5 or #6 are the best option (leaning to #6). However I guess I don't understand what making something a system library effects the license? Andreas Metzler wrote: >Hello, > >Debian ist still relying heavily on GnuTLS 2.12.x, and I do not think >this is sustainable for

Re: Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
Thanks On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/18/2013 07:12 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >>> Basically, what you have to do first is getting to know how packaging >>> in Debian works in general and what standards packages have to adhere >&g

Re: Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Shawn! > > On 10/18/2013 05:54 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> Can someone give feadback as to anything that should be corrected in >> this package or submit it upstream? > > You might want to start with

Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
I read through the documentation and it's a bit unclear to me how to do this - it seemed like I needed to maintain some work before being approved to be a Maintainer but I'm not sure where to do that. We have a PAM module that we're going to open source in a month or so and I would like to be able