Re: Please remove libdevice-cdio-perl 0.2.4-1 from testing

2007-07-31 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 8/1/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Removal hint added. Thanks! -- Martín Ferrari

Re: Please remove libdevice-cdio-perl 0.2.4-1 from testing

2007-07-31 Thread Luk Claes
Martín Ferrari wrote: > Hi, > > This is a new package I created a few days ago, it was NEW on the > 20th. Yesterday I found and fixed a bug in memory allocation that > could trigger some memory corruption (and in my testing an immediate > abort). I think it's very unlikely to be a security problem

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-31 Thread Luk Claes
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:19:14PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> On Saturday 21 July 2007 19:47, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >>> rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? >> Please accept. > > Please allow rdate in testing. It has been discussed in > debian-boot a

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-31 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:19:14PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Saturday 21 July 2007 19:47, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >>rdate is in NEW and has a udeb added. Accept/Reject? > >Please accept. Please allow rdate in testing. It has been discussed in debian-boot and the recent D-I meeting. Muy cordialment

Please remove libdevice-cdio-perl 0.2.4-1 from testing

2007-07-31 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi, This is a new package I created a few days ago, it was NEW on the 20th. Yesterday I found and fixed a bug in memory allocation that could trigger some memory corruption (and in my testing an immediate abort). I think it's very unlikely to be a security problem, and if it were, you should have

binNMUs for rss-glx

2007-07-31 Thread Joost Yervante Damad
libglew has been changed to libglew1.4, the following depending package still needs to be updated, on all archs: rss-glx_0.8.1-6, rebuild against libglew1.4, 1, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc I tested the build locally and it works fine. Thanks, J

[SRM, VOLATILE] Update of tzdata in Etch

2007-07-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, As already discussed on IRC, we plan to update tzdata in Etch using a new upstream database. This will be done in two steps: - upload to volatile to have an update now for those who use volatile ; - upload to stable to have an update for Etch r2. Please find below the corresponding changelo

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Julien BLACHE
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > The release goal includes BTW all that strange things. Up to now, IPv6 > crept somehow into Debian, without anyone coordinating. As these days, Well, there has been a somewhat coordinated effort a couple of years ago, with a webapp tracking the stat

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Tomas Pospisek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070731 00:54]: > IPv6 is set as a release goal. > > Is having Debian CDs work out of the box for the average user plugging > into an everyday ISP also a release goal? That's not a release goal, but a necessarity. The release goal includes BTW all that stran

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070730 22:55]: > IPv6 enabled by default in a IPv4-only environment is a PitA. And this > is probably impossible to fix. We could (by default / sensible probing / ...) blacklist the ipv6-module. I'm though not sure if this is the right thing to do. Cheers, Andi

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:52:47PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > * ask the user at install time whether he wants IPv6 on Without arguing for or against ipv6, asking user at install time is the worst solution. 1) it adds a extra step in installer for everyone 2) most endusers won't understand the

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:13:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > before A is the recommended way of resolving a domain name. Not > doing so would make us not RFC-compliant, which is not the way to go > IMO. Could this ipv6 primer be taken to a more appropriate list, please? -devel, perhap

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:26:20AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > I would add only one point to Tomas Pospisek's excellent > analysis. Without diligent precautions, IPv6 is horribly > insecure. You thought your firewall protected you, but > now "apt-get dist-upgrade" will open your protected apps > to

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:52:47PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > * Software that binds to the first socket found > Then there's software that binds to the first port it gets and is > difficult to teach not to do so. [2] There is nothing like a "first socket". Software either binds to any addr

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:13:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > In all other cases, your machine should do the resolving, try to > connect, _immediately_ get a "no route to host", and fall back to v4. I > don't see the problem? Issues imposed by high latency, high packet loss or slow DNS s

Re: IPv6 in Debian

2007-07-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:52:47PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Hallo Release Team, > > I've read in the release goals: > >> RELEASE GOALS >> = >> >> * full IPv6 support >> Advocate: Martin Zobel-Helas > > and wrote to Martin Zobel-Helas who redirected me here. > > My experience with

[SRM] Fixing bug#426000 in Etch

2007-07-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi stable release managers, Would you accept a fix for bug#426000 in Etch? The patch comes from upstream CVS, and the diff could be found here: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/stdio-common/vfscanf.c.diff?cvsroot=glibc&r1=1.110.2.6&r2=1.110.2.7 Cheers, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelie