Bug#564045: O: flashybrid

2010-01-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Informing -devel, just in case it is useful for anyone: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:55:01AM +0200, Diego wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I have lost interest in maintaining this package. Just pulling it out > of the repositories will vanish the code from the internet, which is a > ba

Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

2010-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:01:01 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > > > There is a maintained (by RedHat) patch for dealing with PIE.  I already > > > > It is perfectly reasonable to reject patches until they are

Re: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-07 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:45:27PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > I've not seen any discussion of how this is supposed to work, or any > mention of the planned transition before it broke my systems. There's > quite a few bugs in ONCRPC related packages related to the current state > but none of them

Re: Switch on compiler hardening defaults

2010-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > So, the question that needs an answer is: _why_ isn't it upstream yet? And that has been answered in another part of this thread. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness gri

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > since then? > > Only by the kernel folks which believe all of the crap that the KVM > guys say about Xe

Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-07 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, since version 4.10, reportbug checks the return code of the package bug scripts and, it != 0, ask the user if to continue or stop. This is the way we decided to fix #382010 . But now I'm wondering if there could be a use case of allowing the scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug, for ex

Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-07 Thread Luca Bruno
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > since version 4.10, reportbug checks the return code of the package > bug scripts and, it != 0, ask the user if to continue or stop. This is > the way we decided to fix #382010 . > > But now I'm wondering if there could be a u

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:06:56AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: > > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > > since then? > > >

Re: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:52:43PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > I see that nfs-common depends on portmap | rpcbind. However, nis only depends > on portmap, and can therefore not be installed at the same time as rpcbind. Yes, this is the root of the issue - if we're changing what we're doing with

Bug#564100: ITP: libtest-sharedfork-perl -- module to run tests in multiple processes and merge results

2010-01-07 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-sharedfork-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Tokuhiro Matsuno * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-SharedFork/

Re: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-07 Thread Alexander Wirt
Mark Brown schrieb am Donnerstag, den 07. Januar 2010: Hi, > > I see that nfs-common depends on portmap | rpcbind. However, nis only > > depends > > on portmap, and can therefore not be installed at the same time as rpcbind. > > Yes, this is the root of the issue - if we're changing what we're

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2010-01-07 Thread Mixx
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Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-07 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > But now I'm wondering if there could be a use case of allowing the > scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug, for example using a > "special" exit code (140 f.e.) . I'm generally opposed to this. There are no use cases that I can th

Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> But now I'm wondering if there could be a use case of allowing the > scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug, for example using a > "special" exit code (140 f.e.) . 42 would be nicer. Besides, does that mean I just have to put a bugscript in all my packages exiting 42 and those bugs stop flo

Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-07 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> But now I'm wondering if there could be a use case of allowing the >> scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug, for example using a >> "special" exit code (140 f.e.) . > > 42 would be nicer. > > Besides, does that mean I just have to put a bugscript in all my > packages e

Work-needing packages report for Jan 8, 2010

2010-01-07 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: 634 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 122 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:35 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > since version 4.10, reportbug checks the return code of the package > bug scripts and, it != 0, ask the user if to continue or stop. This is > the way we decided to fix #382010 . > But now I'm wondering if there could be a use case o