Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yves-Alexis Perez writes: > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: >> > > What is stopping you from creating another package, that provides the

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:50:07PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 19:14 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Since 3.1 or so it is not longer possible to use this package as source > > in terms of the GPL like the udebs have done for several releases. > Could you be a bit more

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Wasn't it once the case with PaX that packages have to be compiled > specially? Or some ELF headers added or so? Some shared libraries have code which can't be run without an executable stack, it's a small number of libraries that are written

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:55:59AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 12:18 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > The current approach of having a kernel patch package seems to work well. > Phew... well there are many people running at >stable... and for > them it does not

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:34 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There is an easy way to benefit from it. Well still the user wouldn't know how to configure it... Actually I must admit that I haven't followed PaX/grsec now for some time (mainly due to the deb package being always out of date in sid). Was

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 12:18 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > The current approach of having a kernel patch package seems to work well. Phew... well there are many people running at >stable... and for them it does not... as the package seems more or less orphaned. Also,.. configuring something com

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
> On do, 2012-02-02 at 12:18 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, dann frazier wrote: > > > Whilte it may help the kernel team to not have to worry about problems > > > in the grsec flavor when preparing uploads, preventing delays for the > > > non-grsec images. But, that just push

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Kees de Jong
Perhaps you should contact Julien Tinnes of http://kernelsec.cr0.org/ He has been too busy to work on the kernels lately but maybe he wants to help. On do, 2012-02-02 at 12:18 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, dann frazier wrote: > > Whilte it may help the kernel team to not

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, dann frazier wrote: > Whilte it may help the kernel team to not have to worry about problems > in the grsec flavor when preparing uploads, preventing delays for the > non-grsec images. But, that just pushes the coordination down a ways - > for stable updates we would need to ad

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-02-01 at 19:14 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:34:28AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Well, that's what we have the 'linux-source' packages for: to allow > > other packages to build-depend on them. > > Since 3.1 or so it is not longer possible to use this

Build-depending on the linux-source package (Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy)

2012-02-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bastian Blank wrote: > Since 3.1 or so it is not longer possible to use this package as source > in terms of the GPL like the udebs have done for several releases. The Built-Using field[1] can take care of that, at least for debs. (I don't know about udebs.) [1] http://bugs.debian.org/641153

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 02:32:19PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 14:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:34:28AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Well, that's what we have the 'linux-source' packages for: to allow > other packages to build-depend on them. Since 3.1 or so it is not longer possible to use this package as source in terms of the GPL like the udebs have done for

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-02-01 at 14:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500,

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: > > > > What is stopping you from creating

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: > > What is stopping you from creating another package, that provides the > > kernel with grsecurity patches applied? Don't bother the kernel team > > with it, and just mai

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: > > > What is stopping you from creating another package, that provides the > > > kernel with grsecurity patc

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:26:50 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez > wrote: > > So I think it's perfectly clear that nor Debian nor Grsecurity are > > really interested in Debian shipping a Grsecurity kernel. > > Well, I don't think its fair to say

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/01/2012 12:01 AM, micah anderson wrote: > What is stopping you from creating another package, that provides the > kernel with grsecurity patches applied? Don't bother the kernel team > with it, and just maintain it yourself in the archive? Its free software > afterall. > > micah > Having

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-31 Thread micah anderson
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:26:50 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On lun., 2012-01-30 at 14:08 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > (adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) > > > > > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wr

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2012-01-30 at 14:08 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > (adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) > > > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brad Spengler] > Frankly it makes more sense for me to offer .debs myself than to deal > with a bureaucracy and non-standard kernel in Debian. It contains > who-knows-what extra code, and I doubt anyone looked at any of it to > see if it allows for some way to leak information I prevent against

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > (adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 18:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Brad Spengler
> Indeed. Brad, I'm not sure if you received the initial mail, so if you > have any comment??? It looks like there were quite a few messages I wasn't involved in ;) Regarding minimizing the patchset, we do that already where we see opportunities to do so. We used to carry a large constifying

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
(adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 18:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Featuresets > > > --- > > > > > > The only featureset provid