Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-11 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:27:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > > The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to standard, > > fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > > > > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that > > the selinux packages

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Being >> something not really end user-oriented, that would have to be a >> "hidden" task (not shown as a choice by tasksel) that one could choose >> with the appropriate D-I boot option. > > Hmmm, why hidden? In how far are other tasks more or less u

Re: Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Erich Schubert
Thanks, Manoj, for this powerful 'comeback'. Looks like you've updated most of the packages already; at least the non-GUI ones (which are the ones I care most about, I never really got the hang of the UI apps). Don't forget we'll also (AFAIK) need updates to PAM and OpenSSH. These two are very impo

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:00:41PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > I disagree that simply willingness can nack Frans' request. > > If the current situation is "bad", and I assume that trusting Frans' > > words, and it has been like that for long, then the request should be > > fulfilled now. La

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:34:11PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:49:20PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > but currently willing to work on i'd nack fjp requests. > > of course if no progress has been made in a month, > > his request is more then reasonable. > > I

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:49:20PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > but currently willing to work on i'd nack fjp requests. > of course if no progress has been made in a month, > his request is more then reasonable. I disagree that simply willingness can nack Frans' request. If the current situat

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Václav Ovsík
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:34:58AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >.. > Well, don't bother with the SELinux packages; most of them are > already in Incoming, though I am not packaging straight out of SVN yet. > I'm sticking to the released versions, until I can see a clear need to > go

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:10:19 +0100, Václav Ovsík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:43:54PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I don't think Lenny is in shape for a release either. It took me >> about a day to get most SELinux packages back up to date -- which >> means we could

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Václav Ovsík
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:43:54PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I don't think Lenny is in shape for a release either. It took > me about a day to get most SELinux packages back up to date -- which > means we could have them updated anytmime in the last few months, if > any one had

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:02:40 +0100, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I slightly disagree. Not that I have doubts about your commitment, but > this entire discussion showed that SELinux is, right now, not ready > for being included in default installs. As D-I is preparing a beta > rele

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: Possible alternative: create a tasksel's task to include it, which would make testing of installs with SELinux by default easier. I would be in great favour of this. Being something not really end user-oriented, that would have to be a "hidden" ta

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting maximilian attems ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > but currently willing to work on i'd nack fjp requests. > of course if no progress has been made in a month, > his request is more then reasonable. I slightly disagree. Not that I have doubts about your commitment, but this entire discussion sh

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:49:01 +0100, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello Frans, Hello fellow DDs, Yes, the SELinux stuff doesn't seem to > have any currently active developers. I haven't heard anything from > Manoj in months. I haven't been around a whole lot, no. > Anyway

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:27:45 +0100, maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > so asking if the SELinux team is ok with adding me as co-maintainer? > thanks Erich for your concise posting on where the work needs to be > picked up! The place we need most work is 1) slat 2) polgen-dfs

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:19:14 +0100, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to > standard, fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that > the selinux packages have basic

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi everyone, There is no real "SELinux team" anymore that could say yes or no to anything I figure. The SELinux people at Debian were mostly Manoj, RJC and myself. I havn't heard anything from Manoj in months, I'm not able to do any actual SELinux work anymore and while RJC updated his SELinux Demo

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:27:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > I'd like to work on SELinux packages and bugs. > > That's wonderful, thanks for your help offering! > > Still, if I'm interpreting correctly Frans' and Erich's mails, the > *cu

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, I'm not DD, but I'm very interested into SELinux on Debian (but must to say - not a guru for SELinux yet :). I'm experimenting with latest SELinux code on Etch, so if this staff can be worth for anyone... http://linux.i.cz/debian/dists/selinux-etch/ Packages are a bit hairy (changelogs). I r

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:27:45 +0100 maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to standard, > > fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > > > > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:27:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > I'd like to work on SELinux packages and bugs. That's wonderful, thanks for your help offering! Still, if I'm interpreting correctly Frans' and Erich's mails, the *current* status of SELinux in Debian is, erm, sub-optimal. So I

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-06 Thread maximilian attems
> The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to standard, > fairly shortly before the release of Etch. > > I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that > the selinux packages have basically been unmaintained since the release > of Etch. I'd like to work

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-05 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This makes me wonder if we actually have enough developers working on > security infrastructure and the core system in general. Actually I have > the impression in general (not only with respect to security) that we're > losing developer share, but I ca

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-05 Thread Philippe Cloutier
I agree. Regarding the installed size, on my not-so-barebone KDE lenny PC (1067 packages installed), installing standard selinux packages would require 40 MB more. Systems with old HDD-s and miniature systems could be bothered. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: [RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-05 Thread Erich Schubert
Hello Frans, Hello fellow DDs, Yes, the SELinux stuff doesn't seem to have any currently active developers. I haven't heard anything from Manoj in months. I had to stop working on SELinux myself for various reasons; it's not that things didn't work, but it was a mixture of personal reasons (mostly

[RFC] Changing priority of selinux back to optional

2008-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
The priority of selinux packages was changed from optional to standard, fairly shortly before the release of Etch. I propose to revert that change before Lenny. The basic reason is that the selinux packages have basically been unmaintained since the release of Etch. Because of that current SeLi