Re: IMPORTEND squid3 stable needs update

2016-01-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, startrekfan wrote: > *squid3 Version 3.4.8* is deployed in the Jessie stable repository.* This > version is outdated and has some security risks!!*. Version 3.5 is more > secure but unfortunately it's only marked as unstable Have you checked https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/squid3/news/201508

Bug#811365: ITP: libbrowserlauncher-java -- Java library for opening a browser

2016-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: libbrowserlauncher-java Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Jeff Chapman * URL : http://browserlaunch2.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Java library

Re: debian/control: enhanced version dependencies?

2016-01-18 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, On 01/15/2016 05:07 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Whenever discussions about new dependency syntax come up I like to remind > people of all the time (about six years now) and effort it took to get the > build profile syntax [1] accepted by the archive, supported by all tools and > to

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:23:02 +, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > It didn't start because the service unit was wrong. > > A quick check of the log revealed that the service was trying to create > a local-domain socket at |/run/lirc/lircd| . But there was no > |/run/lirc/| directory on my sys

Re: lirc systemd packaging

2016-01-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Simon McVittie > I'm not sure that nosh should claim to support systemd units if it > doesn't either support tmpfiles.d, or depend on a standalone > implementation of the tmpfiles.d "protocol" (that is guaranteed to be > run before systemd units with DefaultDependencies=yes). The tmpfiles.d >

Bug#811386: ITP: python-genty -- Python library for test generation

2016-01-18 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Seligmann * Package name: python-genty Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Box * URL : https://github.com/box/genty * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Python library for test gene

Bug#811390: ITP: ruby-hamster -- Efficient, immutable, thread-safe collection classes for Ruby

2016-01-18 Thread Hanno Zulla
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hanno Zulla * Package name: ruby-hamster Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Simon Harris * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/hamster * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Efficient, immutable, thread

Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I think it would be good for Debian to standardise on a single, good arc4random implementation, available to any application that wants to use it. I'd like it to become ubiquitous, on all Debian arches (and eventually other distributions). We should ensure applications do find it and use it,

Bug#811398: ITP: ruby-interception -- Provides a cross-platform ability to intercept all exceptions as they are raised.

2016-01-18 Thread Hanno Zulla
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hanno Zulla * Package name: ruby-interception Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Conrad Irwin * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/interception * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Provides a cross-platf

Re: ITP: uclibc-ng -- uClibc-ng is an implementation of the standard C library that is much smaller than glibc, which makes it useful for embedded systems.

2016-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > uClibc-ng is a small C library for developing embedded Linux systems. It is > much smaller than the GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported by > glibc also work perfectly with uClibc-ng. How is that relevant for a binary distribution in

Re: Bug#811275: ITP: uclibc-ng -- uClibc-ng is an implementation of the standard C library that is much smaller than glibc, which makes it useful for embedded systems.

2016-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > It is a try to build a Debian system with an alternative C library That would require a new dpkg architecture and other changes, e.g. you could build for linuxuclibc-i386 instead of linux-i386. The avr32 people tried to make a µClibc-based Debian p

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Marco d'Itri Linux.IT> writes: > grml-rescueboot is way more useful for rescue purposes. It is… except, I didn’t take it into account when creating the 256 MiB /boot for a laptop, and the regular kernel and initrd are huge already these days, and then you have two of them, plus a temporary initr

Re: Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 18, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > More background information follows. What do others think about going > in this direction; the Debian Security Team in particular? Thanks! The same issue was discussed recently for the MD5 functions. The first step is to create a lintian test for packages

Re: Bug#811275: ITP: uclibc-ng -- uClibc-ng is an implementation of the standard C library that is much smaller than glibc, which makes it useful for embedded systems.

2016-01-18 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi, Thorsten Glaser wrote, > On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > > uClibc-ng is a small C library for developing embedded Linux systems. It is > > much smaller than the GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported > > by > > glibc also work perfectly with uClibc-ng. > > Ho

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ansgar Burchardt debian.org> writes: > Marc Haber zugschlus.de> writes: > > I, for example, am afraid of having to merge /usr in existing systems > > during upgrades, causing repartitions to be necessary. I am afraid of > > partition layout suddenly not fitting any more during an upgrade, > > c

Re: Packages with /outdated/ packaging style

2016-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Lucas Nussbaum debian.org> writes: > qa-helper_classic_debhelper.txt (3647 packages) > >The package is still using "classic" debhelper (no dh, no CDBS). Note that this is not a problem in the package, and there is absolutely no requirement to act on this. dh exists to optimise the common ca

Re: Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Steven Chamberlain writes: > I think it would be good for Debian to standardise on a single, good > arc4random implementation, available to any application that wants to > use it. > I'd like it to become ubiquitous, on all Debian arches (and eventually > other distributions). We should ensure a

Libbsd availability was Re: Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On January 18, 2016 12:57:27 PM EST, Russ Allbery wrote: ... >I'm all in favor of this, but when working on this, please take the >concerns of upstream into account. libbsd is readily available on >Debian, >but I don't know if that's the case on the other systems that upstream >is >trying to su

Re: Bug#811275: ITP: uclibc-ng -- uClibc-ng is an implementation of the standard C library that is much smaller than glibc, which makes it useful for embedded systems.

2016-01-18 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi, Thorsten Glaser wrote, > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > > It is a try to build a Debian system with an alternative C library > > That would require a new dpkg architecture and other changes, > e.g. you could build for linuxuclibc-i386 instead of linux-i386. > > The avr32

Re: Bug#811275: ITP: uclibc-ng -- uClibc-ng is an implementation of the standard C library that is much smaller than glibc, which makes it useful for embedded systems.

2016-01-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > From a good friend I would expect some more positive feedback > for my hobby project ;) I said, it has its niche, but I doubt it has a place as a generic Debian package… libraries are generally only packaged when something uses them, and C libra‐ ri

Bug#811438: ITP: libnet-nessus-rest-perl -- REST interface for Nessus 6.0

2016-01-18 Thread Christopher Hoskin
Package: wnpp Owner: Christopher Hoskin Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libnet-nessus-rest-perl Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Guillaume Rousse * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Nessus

libmd (was Re: Having a single, good arc4random in Debian)

2016-01-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! [ Just posting to debian and fdo mailing lists, but this might be of interest to other distros, please feel free to forward. ] On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 18:25:36 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 18, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > More background information follows. What do others think abo

Re: Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 09:57:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steven Chamberlain writes: > > I think it would be good for Debian to standardise on a single, good > > arc4random implementation, available to any application that wants to > > use it. > > > I'd like it to become ubiquitous, on all

Bug#811448: ITP: tiny-initramfs -- A minimalistic initramfs implementation

2016-01-18 Thread Christian Seiler
Package: wnpp Owner: Christian Seiler Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: tiny-initramfs Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Christian Seiler * URL : https://github.com/chris-se/tiny-initramfs * License : GPL-3+ Program

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 15:19:43 +0100, Tom H wrote: >Johann (I can't think of the other "fanboi" to whom you're referring) >has argued in the past for the removal of rc.local and sysvinit >compatibility. People like him should be silenced on development mailing lists. They don't care about the commo

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Marc Haber
[explanations snipped] Thanks for trying to clarify. I'll stop ranting about that and revisit things when we're in the freeze. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Heade

Bug#811458: ITP: nanopolish -- consensus caller for nanopore sequencing data

2016-01-18 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Packaging Team * Package name: nanopolish Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Jared Simpson * URL : https://github.com/jts/nanopolish * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : consensus caller