Emit backtrace if memcpy is misused?

2010-11-11 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Apparently there is a change coming in glibc which can trigger silent data corruption bugs in existing software that misuses memcpy with overlapping regions. http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/#Comments Perhaps alpha versions of Natty or Natty+1 should test for this (using LD_PRELOAD or a modified

Re: incomplete apport retraces fix...

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Daniel, sorry for the delay. Conferences and such... Daniel J Blueman [2010-10-22 15:46 +0100]: > >> @@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ > >>              dependency_versions[pkg] = version > >>              try: > >>                  if self.get_architecture(pkg) != 'all': > >> +                    depend

Re: I am looking for packages with checks

2010-11-11 Thread Mehboob Nazim
install new version of ubuntu then many problem of ur solvedtry it On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:29 AM, C de-Avillez wrote: > On 11/10/2010 03:12 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > I believe that clamav would fit your criteria. > > Indeed. Added for both Maverick and Natty. > > Thank you, Scott >

alternate installer enhancements

2010-11-11 Thread travis+ml-ubuntu-devel-discuss
Hey all, I looked @ filing a bug but it seemed to direct me here. First off, the manual partitioning section is confusing, especially when trying to set up encrypted LVM. Creating a /boot partition is common enough it shouldn't be required knowledge, IMHO. Also, I don't think it's that unusual

Re: I am looking for packages with checks

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Pitt
C de-Avillez [2010-11-10 14:22 -0600]: > Although I am basically looking for server packages, I am willing to > consider other flavours. So, if you know of such packages, please tell me. gcc and gdb have fairly extensive test suites as well. In the Python area I could offer Apport, but the tests