Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/05/2013 07:43 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: From: "Ralf Corsepius" Would you mind to explain why you guys are putting such an emphasize on -Wformat-security? Some possible ways how to look at it: * because when all reported packages are patched, it would remove one whole class of secur

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.12.2013 10:37, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: >>> IMO, -Wformat-security is almost negibile in comparison to these and you >>> are making way too much noise about it than it deserves. >> >> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=format+string [*] > > Yeah, a vulnerability - So what? > >

ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jakub Filak
Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. The package pulls core ABRT functionality for catching C/C++ crashes, uncaught Python exceptions, Kernel oopses and VMCore processing. There is a bugzilla bug requesting this change: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 10:37 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/05/2013 07:43 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: > > >> From: "Ralf Corsepius" > > >> Would you mind to explain why you guys are putting such an emphasize on > >> -Wformat-security? > > > > Some possible ways how to look at it: > > * because

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.12.2013 11:30, schrieb Adam Williamson: > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 10:37 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 12/05/2013 07:43 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: >> From: "Ralf Corsepius" >> Would you mind to explain why you guys are putting such an emphasize on -Wformat-security? >>> >>> S

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 09:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. The package pulls core ABRT functionality for catching C/C++ crashes, uncaught Python exceptions, Kernel oopses and VMCore processing. There is a bugzilla bug requesting this chan

F-20 Branched report: 20131206 changes

2013-12-06 Thread Fedora Branched Report
Compose started at Fri Dec 6 07:15:02 UTC 2013 Broken deps for armhfp -- [avro] avro-mapred-1.7.5-1.fc20.noarch requires hadoop-mapreduce avro-mapred-1.7.5-1.fc20.noarch requires hadoop-client [blueman] blueman-1.23-7

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Dhiru Kholia
On 12/06/13 at 11:57am, Reindl Harald wrote: > but what is the plan if this does not work out for a unknown number > of packages because upstream is not willing or able to "fix it" or > only in a later release giving that the package is not buildable > at all Contingency mechanism: Revert changes

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 12/06/2013 11:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 10:37 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/05/2013 07:43 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: From: "Ralf Corsepius" Would you mind to explain why you guys are putting such an emphasize on -Wformat-security? Some possible ways how to

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: I would say that abrt should not be installed et all unless user has agreed to it at install time. +1 My mother would be puzzled, if ABRT would popup on her Fedora box. -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS Red Hat, Software Engineer, #brno, #d

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 12/06/2013 12:25 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 12/06/2013 11:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 10:37 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/05/2013 07:43 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote: From: "Ralf Corsepius" Would you mind to explain why you guys are putting such an emphasize on

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Dhiru Kholia
On 12/04/13 at 07:10pm, Brendan Jones wrote: > This is just a pain. Can someone explain to me why this is good? > > Original Message > Subject: [Bug 1037125] hydrogen FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037125 Hi Brendan, C

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 12/06/2013 12:59 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: On 12/04/13 at 07:10pm, Brendan Jones wrote: This is just a pain. Can someone explain to me why this is good? Original Message Subject: [Bug 1037125] hydrogen FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sh

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
On 12/06/2013 12:59 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: Can you *really* pass a QByteArray object directly to printf (and similar functions)? Yes, as the format string argument, because the user-defined conversion comparison operator to const char * kicks in. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Securit

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
On 12/06/2013 01:26 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:59 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: Can you *really* pass a QByteArray object directly to printf (and similar functions)? Yes, as the format string argument, because the user-defined conversion comparison operator to const char * kicks in.

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 6.12.2013 12:39, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a): On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: I would say that abrt should not be installed et all unless user has agreed to it at install time. +1 My mother would be puzzled, if ABRT would popup on her Fedora box. Your mother will b

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Václav Pavlín
On Pá 6. prosinec 2013, 12:39:09 CET, Miroslav Suchý wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: I would say that abrt should not be installed et all unless user has agreed to it at install time. I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, whi

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, which is quite important to have stable system. So although being puzzled is not very nice, being disappointed by crashing applications is much worse from my point of view. So

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 12:51 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.12.2013 12:39, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a): On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: I would say that abrt should not be installed et all unless user has agreed to it at install time. +1 My mother would be puzzled, if ABRT would po

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 12/05/2013 08:27 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: The vast majority of those warnings are actually false positives, not actual security issues. Putting my upstream hat on, if asked to "fix" such a false positive, I'd do one of: (a) close the bug as INVALID/NOTABUG/WONTFIX or (b) hardcode -Wno-error=for

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 01:05 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, which is quite important to have stable system. So although being puzzled is not very nice, being disappointed by crashing applic

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 12/06/2013 02:06 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:51 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.12.2013 12:39, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a): On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: I would say that abrt should not be installed et all unless user has agreed to it at install

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 10:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.12.2013 10:37, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: IMO, -Wformat-security is almost negibile in comparison to these and you are making way too much noise about it than it deserves. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=format+string [*] Yeah,

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 09:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. The package pulls core ABRT functionality for catching C/C++ crashes, uncaught Python exceptions, Kernel oopses and VMCore p

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 12/06/2013 02:08 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 01:05 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, which is quite important to have stable system. So although being puzzled

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 6.12.2013 14:05, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a): On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, which is quite important to have stable system. So although being puzzled is not very nice, being disappointed by crashing applic

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 12/06/2013 02:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 09:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. The package pulls core ABRT functionality for catching C/C++ crashes, uncaugh

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: So try to look at it from broader perspective - I see more benefits in having abrt installed. Such as confidential business information being forwarded to RedHat and being snooped by the NSA to forward it to your enterprise's competitor? You migh

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 01:14 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.12.2013 14:05, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a): On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, which is quite important to have stable system. So although being puzzled is not very

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 02:14 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 09:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. The package pulls core ABRT fu

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Michal Toman
On 06.12.2013 14:34, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:14 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 09:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps grou

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Lukas Zapletal
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:06:14PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >>My mother would be puzzled, if ABRT would popup on her Fedora box. > > > >Your mother will be puzzled with crashing application as well. > >Better to explain ABRT and have less crashing applications then > >the opposite. >

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 01:47 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote: We all do fix the application for his mother, after it's reported by ABRT or any other means:-) No not really our distribution is filled with just packagers that dont know what to do with those reports... ABRT should not be installed by default

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.12.2013 14:08, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: > On 12/06/2013 10:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 06.12.2013 10:37, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: > IMO, -Wformat-security is almost negibile in comparison to these and you > are making way too much noise about it than it deserves. htt

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 02:07 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 12/05/2013 08:27 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: The vast majority of those warnings are actually false positives, not actual security issues. Putting my upstream hat on, if asked to "fix" such a false positive, I'd do one of: (a) close the bug as INVA

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 12/06/2013 02:34 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:14 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 09:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: Hello, I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps gr

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Michal Toman
On 06.12.2013 14:51, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 12/06/2013 01:47 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote: We all do fix the application for his mother, after it's reported by ABRT or any other means:-) No not really our distribution is filled with just packagers that dont know what to do with those

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 02:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.12.2013 14:08, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 12/06/2013 10:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.12.2013 10:37, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: IMO, -Wformat-security is almost negibile in comparison to these and you are making way too much noise about it

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 02:45 PM, Michal Toman wrote: On 06.12.2013 14:34, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:14 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: ABRT does not send *any* information unless you agree to do it. Not even the anonymous reports. It is true that the settings could be in Anaconda and I think i

[Bug 1018330] Please build for EPEL-6

2013-12-06 Thread bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1018330 --- Comment #1 from Iain Arnell --- Unfortunately, I don't have time any more - please feel free to request branch and maintain yourself. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. Unsubscribe from this bug

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 12/06/2013 04:07 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:45 PM, Michal Toman wrote: On 06.12.2013 14:34, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:14 PM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: ABRT does not send *any* information unless you agree to do it. Not even the anonymous reports. It is true that

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/06/2013 12:26 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: On 12/06/13 at 11:57am, Reindl Harald wrote: but what is the plan if this does not work out for a unknown number of packages because upstream is not willing or able to "fix it" or only in a later release giving that the package is not buildable at all

[Base] Fedora Base Design Working Group (2013-12-06) meeting minutes and logs

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Knirsch
Main topic we covered today was the janitorial work for Base related packages to do a build requires cleanup in the coming months. I'll be sending out a separate email about that on Monday to explain the ins and outs and hopefully with a bit more info/queries/statistics about the whole idea. A

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 02:21 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > QString line; > line.fill( '-', 60 ); > qDebug( line.ascii() ); > As you can see, the format string being passed here is provably constant. So fix the compiler. - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org htt

[Test-Announce] systemd-208-9.fc20 package in f20 unsigned

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Greetings. systemd-208-9.fc20 was pushed into the base fedora 20 repos last night (as it fixed a blocker bug for the upcoming release). However, it was not signed properly, so Fedora 20 prerelease users will see an error about the package not being signed. This has already been corrected and

Re: pl license change

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Petr Pisar wrote: > On 2013-12-04, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Petr Pisar wrote: >>> [snip] and GPLv2 and GPLv3+. >> >> Huh? WTF is upstream smoking there? >> > Upstream releases a tar ball bundling a lot of subprojects. Thus the > complicated license. I do a licence review each new release and I alwa

Re: Reopening: Q: webfonts:

2013-12-06 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Petr Vobornik wrote: > This solution is much nicer and can be used by other font packages as well. > > Here's the new package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036754 Very awesome, thanks! I'll sponsor you and review. :-) Luckily, I pushed off the we

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/06/2013 12:26 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: >> There is still plenty of time left before this flag is even enabled in >> rawhide configuration by default. > IMO, this plan has failed - period. +1 Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org h

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
PS: Przemek Klosowski wrote: > | __attribute__((__format__(__printf, 1, 2))); is also compiler-specific, which some upstreams also won't like. Of course, it can be #ifdef-wrapped, but many upstreams try to avoid #ifdef as much as possible. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@l

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Przemek Klosowski wrote: > Given that pretty much all those cases can be solved by either "%s" or > > | __attribute__((__format__(__printf, 1, 2))); "pretty much all" maybe, but not all! See e.g. the examples I have given in the FESCo ticket: * a printf wrapper for logging which adds a timesta

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: > I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. > > The package pulls core ABRT functionality for catching C/C++ crashes, > uncaught Python exceptions, Kernel oopses and VMCore processing. If -cli means no GUI, and thus no popu

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 02:21 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> QString line; >> line.fill( '-', 60 ); >> qDebug( line.ascii() ); >> As you can see, the format string being passed here is provably constant. > > So fix the compiler. I don't think GCC will ever be a

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ben Boeckel wrote: > Use the printf attribute on the function to fix this. That doesn't work if I have to prepend a date to my format string. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
mrnuke (mr.nuke...@gmail.com) said: > > Because packagers will just ignore it [...] > > > I think this is a childish argument, but let's take it. So what? You're > going to start stepping on people's lawns and change things just because > you want to impose your greater good? Wow, nice mixed met

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/06/2013 12:26 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: >> >> On 12/06/13 at 11:57am, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> but what is the plan if this does not work out for a unknown number >>> of packages because upstream is not willing or able to "fix it" or

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miroslav Suchý (msu...@redhat.com) said: > On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote: > >I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected crashes, > >which is quite important to have stable > >system. So although being puzzled is not very nice, being disappointed by > >crashing

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 07:57:04PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > On 12/06/2013 12:26 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote: > >> There is still plenty of time left before this flag is even enabled in > >> rawhide configuration by default. > > IMO, this plan has failed - period. > > +1

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > See e.g. the examples I have given in the FESCo ticket: > * a printf wrapper for logging which adds a timestamp in front of the > format string, e.g. > log("processed %d items", foo); > which would be printed as > 2013-12-06 19:00:00: p

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 08:02:06PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > * translatable format strings, e.g. > printf(translate("processed %d items"), foo); Translatable strings are handled just fine. Try e.g.: extern int my_printf (void *my_object, const char *my_format, ...) __attribute__ ((format (

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:27:05AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michael scherer wrote: > > Let's rather ask the contrary, why is this so much a issue to communicate > > with upstream to fix things, and add patches ? > > The vast majority of those warnings are actually false positives, not actual

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 16:07 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > This approach has been > > working perfectly for many years and I don't think much has changed in > > that area lately. > There were reports of abrt sending out private and confidential > information to the net and reports of abrt sen

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 12:39 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > On 12/06/2013 12:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > I would say that abrt should not be installed et all unless user has agreed > > to it at install time. > > +1 > > My mother would be puzzled, if ABRT would popup on her Fedora bo

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 13:18 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > And what purpose does abrt serve if there aren't people fixing the issue > it reports on the other end... Well, that's easy enough to shoot down. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=CLOSED&classification=Fedora&l

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread David Malcolm
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 15:06 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:27:05AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Michael scherer wrote: > > > Let's rather ask the contrary, why is this so much a issue to communicate > > > with upstream to fix things, and add patches ? > > > > The vas

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:08:22PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 13:18 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > > And what purpose does abrt serve if there aren't people fixing the issue > > it reports on the other end... > > Well, that's easy enough to shoot down. > >

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Jakub Filak
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 20:06 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jakub Filak wrote: > > I'd like to add abrt-cli package to the comps group 'standard'. > > > > The package pulls core ABRT functionality for catching C/C++ crashes, > > uncaught Python exceptions, Kernel oo

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Michael scherer
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:40:36PM -0600, mrnuke wrote: > On 12/05/2013 11:38 AM, Michael scherer wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:25:54PM -0600, mrnuke wrote: > >> > >> This change is Sofa King stupid. Why couldn't we have just enabled the > >> warning without turning it into an error, THEN l

Re: ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

2013-12-06 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 13:51 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > No not really our distribution is filled with just packagers that > dont > know what to do with those reports... So you're saying: "Our maintainers can't fix bugs, why bother filing them at all?"? That doesn't make sense to me at

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.12.2013 15:59, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: > On 12/06/2013 02:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> if arbitary users are allowed to call CLI applications from a webserver > ?!? Calling cli-tools underneath of webservices is the norm on many > webservers. Often these calls are wrapped into > scripti

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Mattias Ellert
fre 2013-12-06 klockan 15:06 -0500 skrev Darryl L. Pierce: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:27:05AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Michael scherer wrote: > > > Let's rather ask the contrary, why is this so much a issue to communicate > > > with upstream to fix things, and add patches ? > > > > The vas

Re: FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/07/2013 03:39 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.12.2013 15:59, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: On 12/06/2013 02:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: if arbitary users are allowed to call CLI applications from a webserver ?!? Calling cli-tools underneath of webservices is the norm on many webservers. Of