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

2014-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2014 11:52 +0800, Thomas Goirand  : >> As libressl is currently under heavy development, it is imho not to >> be expected to have that stable ABI you are asking for. > > Well, I don't agree with this view. If LibreSSL pretends to be a > replacement for OpenSSL, then they should care

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 juillet 2014 23:08 +0100, Steve McIntyre  : > And I've got to ask: for the couple of trivial examples that Frederick > pointed out - why on earth do these even exist as libraries instead of > being inlined wherever they're needed? Because, in node, a library is cheap and the functionality g

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:26:38 +0200 Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 12 juillet 2014 23:08 +0100, Steve McIntyre  : > > > And I've got to ask: for the couple of trivial examples that > > Frederick pointed out - why on earth do these even exist as > > libraries instead of being inlined wherever they're

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:26:38 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 12 juillet 2014 23:08 +0100, Steve McIntyre  : > > > And I've got to ask: for the couple of trivial examples that Frederick > > pointed out - why on earth do these even exist as libraries instead of > > being inlined wherever they'r

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

2014-07-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:46:45 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:15:13PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > I'm not really sure what you mean by this. I'm pretty sure the > > openssl development team has a pretty good understanding of > > security and I don't see anybody adding a

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

2014-07-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/13/2014 02:17 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Does gnutls have an openssl shim which actually works as a generic > replacement? I dimly recall a couple of not-so-nice incompatibilities As much as I understand, it's a complete alternative with a different API, I don't think there's a compatibil

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

2014-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Thomas Goirand: [...] >> As Kurt wrote, GNUTLS becomes a better alternative then. > Does gnutls have an openssl shim which actually works as a generic > replacement? I dimly recall a couple of not-so-nice incompatibilities … I am not aware of recent any changes to the O

DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Cyril Brulebois dixit: >Thorsten Glaser (2014-07-12): >> OK, can you please give-back makefs on mips once the new bmake >> binaries are available for all buildds? > >Please send your request to the appropriate place. Ookay. Yes, this was a mistake of mine. But it took me about six minutes t

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

2014-07-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 08:17:51AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand: > > Well, I don't agree with this view. If LibreSSL pretends to be a > > replacement for OpenSSL, then they should care about being ABI > > compatible, so we can easily switch from one implementation to the

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser (2014-07-13): > Cyril Brulebois dixit: > > >Thorsten Glaser (2014-07-12): > > >> OK, can you please give-back makefs on mips once the new bmake > >> binaries are available for all buildds? > > > >Please send your request to the appropriate place. > > Ookay. Yes, this was a

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

2014-07-13 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:22:49PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > I think GnuTLS is actually a better alternative and wish there > > > were more people developing and using it. [...] > > * GnuTLS, with an API incompatible with OpenSSL, thus requiring huge > >amounts of work to make signif

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2014 11:34 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers  : >> > And I've got to ask: for the couple of trivial examples that Frederick >> > pointed out - why on earth do these even exist as libraries instead of >> > being inlined wherever they're needed? >> >> Because, in node, a library is cheap and the

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2014 08:50 +0100, Neil Williams  : >> > And I've got to ask: for the couple of trivial examples that >> > Frederick pointed out - why on earth do these even exist as >> > libraries instead of being inlined wherever they're needed? >> >> Because, in node, a library is cheap and the f

Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
Hello, we've got a problem with Apache that causes problems during upgrades (e.g. #716880, #752922, #711925). In short, the issue is that Apache 2.4 changed ABIs, so that we need to ensure that dpkg properly removes packages linking against the obsolete ABIs at upgrade time. This is the first time

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

2014-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Mike Hommey [140713 12:55]: > > … while IMHO it's possible to safely mix openssl and libressl if we prepare > > for that (i.e. make sure that _everything_ in libressl is only exported > > with properly versioned symbols) > > Contrary to what you seem to believe, this only really works if *both

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Arno, On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014, Arno Töll wrote: > * Ignore the problem, and refer to the manpage of aptitude without > proper fix etc. which clearly says "THIS OPTION CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO > NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING". seems right to me, given the alternatives you descr

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

2014-07-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bernhard R. Link: > * Mike Hommey [140713 12:55]: > > Contrary to what you seem to believe, this only really works if *both* > > libraries have versioned symbols. Otherwise, you can end up with > > libraries linked against the unversioned one using symbols from the > > versioned one at run ti

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > > Maybe a “gift” job for a Debian Contributor would be to put together > > a “DD’s cheat card”, with infos about how to contact DSA, WB team, > > etc. – nothing about the how-to of packaging, but about the orga‐ > > nisational

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Joachim Breitner (2014-07-13): > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > > > Maybe a “gift” job for a Debian Contributor would be to put together > > > a “DD’s cheat card”, with infos about how to contact DSA, WB team, > > > etc. – nothing about the how-to of pa

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:17:24 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > What would you do in our situation? Side note 2: We kinda expected this > situation and added a trapdoor in Wheezy [1], but it turned out, that > even that is not good enough to prevent havoc with --purge-unused. It's not really ideal either,

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

2014-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
Guus Sliepen wrote: [...] > The problem is that OpenSSL is much more than just an implementation of > SSL/TLS. It is also provides a very extensive set of low-level > cryptographic functions. There are many programs that use OpenSSL for > the latter, not for the SSL/TLS layer. You just cannot drop

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Jeroen, On 13.07.2014 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It's not really ideal either, but another option would be doing an > update in the next wheezy point release preparing this migration. For > example moving the configuration files from apache2.2-common to > apache2 or apache2.2-bin in wheezy

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

2014-07-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:02:18PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Bernhard R. Link: > > * Mike Hommey [140713 12:55]: > > > Contrary to what you seem to believe, this only really works if *both* > > > libraries have versioned symbols. Otherwise, you can end up with > > > libraries linke

Bug#754703: ITP: python-vertica -- native Python client for the Vertica database

2014-07-13 Thread debian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: deb...@jbfavre.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-vertica Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : justin.be...@gmail.com, alex@uber.com * URL : https://github.com/uber/vertica-python * Licens

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

2014-07-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/13/2014 09:48 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:02:18PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Bernhard R. Link: >>> * Mike Hommey [140713 12:55]: Contrary to what you seem to believe, this only really works if *both* libraries have versioned symbols. Otherwi

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

2014-07-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > for that (i.e. make sure that _everything_ in libressl is only exported > with properly versioned symbols), again IMHO the time and effort required PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take this to the portable libressl upstream *and make it true* for

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

2014-07-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Mike Hommey: > Well, it kind of is. Because those versioned symbols in openssl come > from a debian patch, afaict. So while debian may be fine (as long as all > build-rdeps have been rebuilt since openssl got those versioned > symbols), other distros aren't covered, as well as binaries not > c

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

2014-07-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > I am, frankly, not at all concerned with binaries not compiled on Debian > at this point. Data point: Fedora uses a different symbol versioning > scheme for openssl, so openssl-linked binaries from there won't run on > Debian anyway. > > It's far more

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

2014-07-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Martin Zobel-Helas dixit: >Furthermore, we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that >only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be >redirected). This means that requests from wget (since it switched from OpenSSL to GnuTLS) and other utilities from slow arch

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

2014-07-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Martin Zobel-Helas , 2014-07-13, 22:13: The plan is to execute a final sync of home directories on 2014-JUL-26 starting at 0800Z. http://xkcd.com/1179/ we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be redirect

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Fabiano Antunes
Hey there. On 07/13/2014 08:36 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Arno, > > On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014, Arno Töll wrote: >> * Ignore the problem, and refer to the manpage of aptitude without >> proper fix etc. which clearly says "THIS OPTION CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO >> NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU

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

2014-07-13 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Meanwhile, we could try to get ever distro with a clue together, map the > versioned symbol diffs that already exist, and see if we can come up with a > plan to at least do downstream versioning in a compatible way. Please, please, please speak to upstream first. It's hard work, but some upstre

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

2014-07-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/07/14 02:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > [...] these warnings would be treated as errors: > >> > In file included from md5/md5_locl.h:98:0, >> > from md5/md5_dgst.c:60: >> > md5/md5_dgst.c: In function 'md5_block_data_order': >> > ./md32_common.h:237:66: warning: right-hand

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

2014-07-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > Meanwhile, we could try to get ever distro with a clue together, map the > > versioned symbol diffs that already exist, and see if we can come up with a > > plan to at least do downstream versioning in a compatible way. > > Please, please, please

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

2014-07-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Martin, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:13:10PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Furthermore, we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that > only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be > redirected). Could you elaborate on why people.d.o will enforce https

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

2014-07-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 08:36:30PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Mike Hommey: > > Well, it kind of is. Because those versioned symbols in openssl come > > from a debian patch, afaict. So while debian may be fine (as long as all > > build-rdeps have been rebuilt since openssl got those v

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

2014-07-13 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 15:19:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:13:10PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > Furthermore, we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that > > only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be > > redirected). >

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

2014-07-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > HSTS protects mostly from MITM (except for first connection), but I'm > not sure if DSA is planning to add it. HSTS is a standard part of HTTPS setup on machines run by DSA, so it is very likely they will. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian