Re: Help needed for #871234 FTBFS with GCC-7: error: type/value mismatch

2017-09-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 01:55:58PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > GHash.hh:91:44: error: type/value mismatch at argument 1 in template > parameter list for 'template struct std::hash' > while (pos

Re: Openvas too old - suggestion

2017-05-24 Thread Jeff Epler
Hello Hans The earlier message in this thread mentioned that Debian Testing is "frozen". You'll find more information about what this means here: https://release.debian.org/stretch/freeze_policy.html though that document is really written for people who are familiar with Debian development.

Re: Help requested: Packages which FTBFS randomly

2017-02-17 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:16:16PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Can anyone here reproduce any of the following *two* bugs? > (Using sbuild in a single-CPU machine) > > 837067 1.000 libsecret Using a fresh 1CPU / 1GB x86 system on digitalocean's NYC region, upgraded to debian testing, I tried

Re: Bash different behaviour in jessie versus stretch (maybe a regression?)

2017-01-09 Thread Jeff Epler
I'm no bash expert, but I did take a quick look at bash release notes. One of the differences is called out under the heading "New Features In Bash" between 4.4-beta2 and 4.4-rc2: a. Using ${a[@]} or ${a[*]} with an array without any assigned elements when the nounset option is enabled no

Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-06 Thread Jeff Epler
[resending with correct Cc:] I believe that similar bugs have been afflicting hurd and kfreebsd debian ports for some time. In retrospect, it's too bad these reports weren't given more attention, because it could have made things better for Linux platforms as well. :-/ see e.g.,

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-15 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:06:53AM +1000, Riley Baird wrote: What if that website goes down one day? Hmm. I thought a Debian package should not require an internet connection to be built from source, but in quickly scanning the debian policy manual and the debian new maintainers guide I didn't

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 05:19:30PM -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: * foomodule is a Python wrapper for libfoo, so it must be shipped as a .so, but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, it is not possible to build foomodule at all (The same goes for wrapping the library

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-19 Thread Jeff Epler
Here are two scenarios where building a static library (libfoo) with -fPIC is desirable: * libbar has a stable API, so it should be shipped as a .so, but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, then libbar has to be shipped as a a static library too * foomodule is a Python

Re: init script cannot stop pid process

2015-02-11 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:25:38PM +0100, Mateusz Łukasik wrote: error: can't create pidfile /var/run/darkhttpd.pid: Permission denied Typically, (/var)/run is only writable by root (checked on kfreebsd and linux jessie systems). Does darkhttpd write its pid file *before* changing to the

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-11 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:28:51PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: I don't know mythtv, but if it's just a digital video recorder, there's no significant risk ever needing security updates. A local, forked copy is problematic for a video player since someone may open a malformed video file,

Re: btrfs

2014-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
Not a user of btrfs, but the userspace tools are in package btrfs-tools https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=btrfs-tools and the kernel modules seem to be in the default kernel packages $ dpkg -L linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 | grep btrfs.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-14 Thread Jeff Epler
I performed a few little experiments, too. First, I tried encoding the various digests as base64 or base93, rather than hex. In each case, the file grew in size; base93 was the worst. Eliminating all the headers (e.g., replacing Package: foo with simply foo) saved 3.2%. Replacing each one with

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 09:52:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I use apt dist-upgrade normally and then, periodically, run: dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{ print $1 }' \ | xargs dpkg --purge This is obviously somewhat unsafe. It would be neat to have a tool that

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-13 Thread Jeff Epler
For software that is incompatible with pulseaudio, prefix the command with 'pasuspender': $ pasuspender oss-or-alsa-only-program args... Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Jeff Epler
If you have a local apt repository (e.g., with dput and mini-dinstall), then after building each package you would install it to your local repo. (typical commandline: dput local packagename*.changes) If properly configured, pbuilder can look at the local apt repository and pick up the -dev

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-22 Thread Jeff Epler
If we want to support additional semantics for sn?printf where the standard says undefined, we should take care to specify what is going to be promised. I don't know whether we is Debian, or we is (e)glibc upstream. I also don't know exactly what is being proposed. Something like When the

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-16 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like both you and the site you wish to access are based in France, so please forgive this US-centric intrusion. Under US law, it may be the case that violating website terms of service is a felony crime with jail time attached.

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:08:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: I disagree with this claim. The wheezy release for kfreebsd is a joke, and we should end it with jessie unless there are real users. What makes me other than a real user? Perhaps some users of Debian are more equal^Wreal than

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:05:50PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Do you actually run a kernel other than Linux and is anything other than Linux usable? I can understand it is not nice, but feels like the other options are bitrotting anyway. Yes and yes. Wheezy kfreebsd amd64 is dandy for server

Re: objcopy vs absolute addresses

2013-03-29 Thread Jeff Epler
This is something to do with the .note.gnu.build-id. Both of these alternatives give three identical object files: Removing this section in objcopy: $OBJCOPY -R .note.gnu.build-id ... Or requesting that the linker not generate it in the first place $CC -nostdlib -Wl,--build-id=none ...