Bug#810161: New online b43 firmware installer
Package: firmware-b43-installer
Version: 1:019-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I've written a patch to install the newest firmware which has been
supported by b43-fwcutter since version 1:018 (released in 2013) and
attached the patch to this email. b43-fwcutter 1:019-2 in jessie already
supported installing this firmware offline.
Upstream referred me to Debian [1] for this and confirmed that 784.2 is
the latest version of firmware available [2].
The patch I attached also corrects the description of the firmware
version. The description string listed the old postinst referred to the wl
driver version.
I changed the depends for those upgrading as b43-fwcutter before 018 will
not support this newer firmware. Though Debian may not need this,
downstream distributions might.
Two other issues I may later file/append to bugs on:
1) The listed Debian Package Source Repository (Browseable)[3] only shows
1:018 whereas 1:019 is in the package tracking system.
2) Upstream now lists more supported devices [4] than what the postinst has.
Thanks,
Drew Daniels
Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog/
[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2016-January/003866.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2016-January/003867.html
[3] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/b43-fwcutter.git
[4] http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/diff -uprwd old/debian/control new/debian/control
--- old/debian/control 2016-01-06 23:06:51.361668328 -0600
+++ new/debian/control 2016-01-06 23:07:21.241816495 -0600
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description: utility for extracting Broa
Package: firmware-b43-installer
Section: contrib/kernel
Architecture: all
-Depends: b43-fwcutter (>= ${source:Version}), bzip2, wget, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: b43-fwcutter (>= 1:018-1), bzip2, wget, ${misc:Depends}
Replaces: firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (<= 1:015-14)
Breaks: firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (<= 1:015-14)
Description: firmware installer for the b43 driver
diff -uprwd old/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst new/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
--- old/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-01-06 22:34:38.164082118 -0600
+++ new/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-01-06 22:45:04.367187292 -0600
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if [ -n "$APT_PROXIES" ]; then
eval export $APT_PROXIES
fi
-wget --timeout=60 http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
+wget --timeout=60 http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Some problem occurred during the firmware download. Please check your internet connection."
exit 0
@@ -32,9 +32,8 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
rm -rf /lib/firmware/b43
fi
fi
-tar xvjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
-cd broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux
-b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
+tar xvjf broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2
+b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.wl_apsta.o
rm -rf $tmp
}
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ elif [ "$nottested" ]; then
echo "This card is actually not tested. Please install the driver manually."
exit 0
elif [ "$latest" ]; then
-echo "This card work with newer 5.100.138 firmware. Trying to install it."
+echo "This card work with newer 666.2 or 784.2 firmware. Trying to install it."
latest_firmware
exit 0
fi
Bug#756664: b43-fwcutter checks md5sums on unverified http download
Hi, This seems to be at least mitigated by an md5sum check of the file contents. There's still attack vectors the programs used to look at the download (arguably just wget, tar and b43-fwcutter). There's also the possibility of hash collisions, but that's less likely given the file still needs to be recognized as valid by b43-fwcutter and possibly the kernel if it makes it that far. postinst calls b43-fwcutter which extracts the file and then checks the md5sum of the contained file. b43-fwcutter supports skipping the check, but this is not automatic and is not done by the postinst script. See http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/b43-fwcutter.git/tree/fwcutter_list.h and an example of how new firmware support was added upstream: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2013-July/003173.html If firmware 784.2 from Asus driver 6.30.163.46 is accepted as GPL then the firmware could just be included in the kernel (see the patch above from 2013), and directly in this package. Cheers, Drew Daniels Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog/
Bug#323420: Metasploit file licenses tracked upstream
Hi, The metasploit-framework latest file licenses are tracked at: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/LICENSE It's looking in much better shape than before. Thanks, Drew Daniels Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#706345: RFP: lunaserv -- Renders non-Earth map datasets
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lunaserv Version: 2.20130318 Upstream Author: Name someb...@some.org * URL: http://lunaserv.lroc.asu.edu/ * License: BSD Description: Renders non-Earth map datasets A Web Map Service (WMS) implementation, much like MapServer and GeoServer. It solves issues with rendering global non-Earth datasets. It has fast and accurate rendering of global datasets, support for the JMARS projection, for IAU2000 spatial reference systems and accurate rendering of non-linear projections. It uses the LROC Science Operations Center (SOC) which maintains a global dataset that has a released size of over 200TB and continues to grow. Lunaserv supports multiple planetary bodies at the same time and can render the following layer types: Raster basemaps Vector (db, flat file, or shapefile) Day/night shading Annotation Grid Topography based illumination Raster footprints Numeric (JMARS only) Lunaserv also includes a configurable WMS front-end that supports switching planetary bodies and projections on the fly. This interface uses OpenLayers as the map request/layout engine with some extra code to support projection changing and reading layer configurations from a YAML configuration file. The configuration file can specify one or more planetary bodies, projections, and a variety of layer options for each body. It appears to bundle jquery, OpenLayers (BSD license), js-yaml, jquery-ui-touch-punch (MIT or GPLv2)... See COPYING. It's split into multiple archives some described as having certain sections so not everything in COPYING s included in every archive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#193061: adopting lgeneral?
Hi, You mentioned you were planning to adopt lgeneral after squeeze's release and squeeze has been out for a couple of months now. I was just curious about the status of this. Thanks, Drew Daniels http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#620056: Powertop 1.97 and 1.98 broken on 64 bit?
http://git.kernel.org/?p=status/powertop/powertop.git;a=blob;f=TODO;hb=HEAD http://git.kernel.org/?p=status/powertop/powertop.git;a=blob;f=TODO;hb=793b3f3fa151603299a95d102957c552908fe658 both say we're somehow broken on 64 bit. again. If so, then it seems like Debian bug 620055 (at http://bugs.debian.org/620056 ) should be marked serious (justification: substantial loss of features). I've had some success running it on 64 bit CentOS 5, but of course it's missing quite a bit, but does run and allow some features. I have not yet tested on Debian/Ubuntu so my apologies if this is noise in the bug. Drew Daniels Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#609894: gtkpod export crash bug filed upstream
tags 609894 +upstream forwarded 609894 http://gtkpod.org/bugs/index.php?do=detailstask_id=37project=1 thanks I've filed this as a new upstream bug at: http://gtkpod.org/bugs/index.php?do=detailstask_id=37project=1 Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#609894: patch for gtkpod export problem disables multi-threading
tag 609894 +patch thanks patch for ubuntu bug is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkpod/+bug/519068 It seems the problem is multi-threading access to the warnings dialog which might actually slow down copies by creating more seeks anyway. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#605292: SHM_SIZE fixed mono-gac: lenny to squeeze upgrade issue?
Hi, In message 28 to bug 605292, Jochen says: mount | grep sh tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=512) # after reading this i changed /etc/default/tmpfs from SHM_SIZE=512 to SHM_SIZE= (fresh default installtions does not have there any value) # i have to wait for the next reboot tomorrow to see the changes ... I'm guessing that the SHM_SIZE change now prevents gacutil.exe from failing. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605292#28 Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#607925: ndoutils-nagios3-mysql upgrade patch
Hi, This is presumably a one line fix in the install script for the two day old upgrade bug: nstall -m 644 db/mysql-mods-1.4b5.sql \ debian/$@/usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/ndoutils-mysql/upgrade/mysql/1.4b5 + install -m 644 db/mysql-mods-1.4b8.sql \ + debian/$@/usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/ndoutils-mysql/upgrade/mysql/1.4b9 mysql-mods-1.4b8.sql contains the needed changes. I notice version 1.4b8 doesn't appear in the changelog so presumably it was never packaged. I suspect the Debian patch should also name the file mysql-mods-1.4b9.sql. Testing this could break my install in other ways so I'm reluctant to tag this bug +patch without having tested my patch. Further less relevant discussion I also wonder why the changes in 1.4b6 aren't in the list of upgrades (though it doesn't add new or remove columns so it's compatible). A tool for mysql to check the structure differences between two versions of a table and create an alter table statement would be nice. The closest to that is: * dummy name for new table * get column name list for columns with the same name * write lock old table;insert into new_table select old_table * drop old table;unlock old table (not there, I'm not sure what happens) * rename new dummy table to be the same as the old name This would reclaim freed space when using innodb_file_per_table. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#585392: mysql-5.0 security fix causing segfault valid? bug in squeeze's mysql-5.1?
tag 585392 + moreinfo thanks Questions: * Does this bug hold back mysql-5.1 or squeeze? It doesn't seem to have, but some tools seem to report this bug as being in squeeze. * Is this reproducible anywhere? I haven't found any evidence that it is. * Does this bug not affect mysql 5.1? If this is a valid bug, then it seems likely it'll be in version 5.1 too, but I haven't looked at what code is involved and if the security fix is different in 5.1 than the 5.0 security patch. Since the reporter has not responded to questions in a while I'm tagging this bug moreinfo. I do not maintain this package, but I haven't seen any of the packagers comment. * A diff of the pre-security update and post-security update would be nice. * A comment from the maintainers about the reproducibility of this bug would be nice. I personally can't see any reason for this bug, but I haven't dug into the source code yet. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html P.S.: Please CC me in responses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#594171: Moreinfo requested about GAC, dpkg log and $PATH for libnunit2.4-cil: nunit-console and nunit-gui error report
tags 594171 + moreinfo thanks Two emails requesting for more information have gone unanswered: August 26th, 2010 * Request for confirmation of what packages had been installed between working and breaking using dpkg log file. * request for gac related information. September 27th, 2010 * Request for $PATH variable to confirm no non-Debian versions of Mono are installed. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#597113: Squid3 upstream minor release fixes bugs
tags 599709 + upstream patch tags 597113 + upstream patch thanks I think it's fair to tag these patch given it seems upstream has fixed this problem in the next minor release after the one Debian has. I'm taking the liberty of tagging these since they're more than 5 days old, one's RC, and I think we're getting closer to release so more RC bug information is useful. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#585392: mysql-server crash with lenny4. URL help? Core dump created? Backported version crash?
Did the Crashing URL help? I think it's only recently changed to: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/crashing.html Was a core dump created that can be analyzed? Does the backported version crash? To install the backported version see: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ Note, the backported version installs server version 5.1 so there may be issues downgrading. There's also other versions of the 5.0 available from Percona and OurDelta. The changelog is currently available at: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mysql-dfsg-5.0/mysql-dfsg-5.0_5.0.51a-24+lenny4/changelog It only shows what seems to be small security fixes. A diff of the source changes would be nice, but I don't know for sure, but the my.cnf file might be useful. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/~ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#566890: Related pam-auth-updated bug and config files
Related Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/282751 There's a few options there for the auth file, I think #6 has the most thought put in at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/282751/comments/6 Since this bug is not upstream, I'm not sure there's another way to link to it in debbugs. An alternate, but similar pam-config is discussed at: http://mattonrails.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/vpc-ubuntu-810-beta-and-active-directory/ Name: Active Directory via Winbind Default: yes Priority: 500 Auth-Type: Primary Auth: [success=end default=ignore]pam_winbind.so krb5_auth krb5_ccache_type=FILE try_first_pass Auth-Initial: [success=end default=ignore]pam_winbind.so krb5_auth krb5_ccache_type=FILE Account-Type: Primary Account: [success=end default=ignore]pam_winbind.so Session-Type: Additional Session: requiredpam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022 skel=/etc/skel Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/~ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#554843: dkms is for building. Packages should only use dkms when needed.
Hi, dkms is for building so shouldn't this bug be closed? If not, I'd like to hear a specific example of a driver. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but shouldn't this instead be a bug against drivers in Debian that use dkms instead of requiring a new package be created in the archive for each relevant kernel release. With pre-compiled modules there should be separate packages per architecture too. I seem to recall that Debian used to update all the main kernel modules with a relevant kernel update (though this is painful for the security and stable release teams). I guess non-free drivers need more support since some in Security said they don't support non-free, but that could be a wont-fix for those drivers if the maintainers decide they need dkms in order to support updates. dkms seems most useful for third party modules from organizations like hardware vendors who don't yet have in-tree or in-archive drivers and can't support binaries for all the relevant kernels in distributions that have dkms. Alternately, maybe the bug is a request for dkms to be an install/pre-install time requirement, but removable either by making sure it's just recommends for drivers, or through drivers being released as -source style packages that create an installation. Still, this seems like a bug for the dkms depending kernel module/driver packages. If this is the case, then maybe people want dkms installed in such a way that it doesn't autobuild on reboot, but I guess that's the same argument as services that provide tools, or that services shouldn't autostart (but they do). If dkms is required for drivers, then packages like gcc will become pseudo required again which was considered a bug with security implications. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#184333: Removed package mguesser is inside mnogosearch (was: Package mguesser has been removed from Debian)
reopen 184333 reassign 184333 mnogosearch thanks I presume closing just for unstable was a mistake. mnogosearch packages provide the binary now so bugs for mguesser in unstable should be re-assigned to mnogosearch. Were there any other such bugs? 468806, 400462, or 471373? Feature request bugs like 184333 should be closed for stable releases as it generally goes against stable release policy to add new features (security things like the openssh privilege separation are rare, disliked exceptions). Too bad there wasn't a rolling target for unstable. My apologies to the mnogosearch maintainers if the features have already been implemented. I would be very interested since I haven't been able to find the source code I mentioned. mnogosearch should provide mguesser too for smoother upgrades (and not conflict), but I guess I should file a separate bug on that (though I haven't confirmed this wasn't done). Since mguesser became available in mnogosearch, or was available, it should have been assigned there too. Sorry if I missed that when I first filed the bug. I wish I could keep better on top of these too. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html On Fri, February 5, 2010 8:41 am, Marco Rodrigues wrote: Version: 0.2-5.1+rm You filed the bug http://bugs.debian.org/184333 in Debian BTS against the package mguesser. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will remain open for older distributions. For more information about this package's removal, read http://bugs.debian.org/493861. That bug might give the reasons why this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements. Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question. Thank you for your contribution to Debian. -- Marco Rodrigues -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#254938: Now DFSG? #254938: RFP: vttest -- VT100/VT220/XTerm compatiblity test utility
reopen 254938 thanks Now that this terminal testing package might be DFSG free, isn't it worth looking at again? It might be a good test suite application for auto-testing xterm and other terminals? See: http://invisible-island.net/vttest/CHANGES 20070107 contacted Per Lindberg (2007/1/2), received permission to change his copyright notice to a BSD-style license. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#311367: mythtv w/o liblame? (was: Still interested in mythtv inside Debian)
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:22:30AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reopen 311367 thanks I'm still interested in mythtv being packaged inside Debian. Beyond the mentioned mp3 issue, I'm not sure what else is keeping the package out. I'm ccing Christian Marillat, Matt Zimmerman and the Alioth mythtv package list to get more comments about this. This is not possible because mythtv need to depends on liblame. I think you can close this RFP. How close is this dependency? Is it possible to switch the decoding to something else? Or how about just have parts of MythTV that don't require mp3encoding? Personally, I have alternate means of recording content that I would like to be able to use the commercial skip stuff on. There's other MythTV features unrelated to encoding and decoding too that may be worth packaging for Debian. Not having touched much of the source, I can't say how easy it would be to split up. Also Matt Zimmerman mentioned there might be licensing issues? Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#329092: emacs21 now builds so close bug? (was: emacs21_21.4a-2(m68k/unstable/vault13): FTBFS on m68k)
It seems emacs21_21.4a+1-3 has built on m68k (see http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=emacs21ver=21.4a%2B1-3arch=m68kstamp=1167934529file=log ) Shall we close this bug? This version also seems to be in etch (and I expect future versions will too). Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#311367: Still interested in mythtv inside Debian
reopen 311367 thanks I'm still interested in mythtv being packaged inside Debian. Beyond the mentioned mp3 issue, I'm not sure what else is keeping the package out. I'm ccing Christian Marillat, Matt Zimmerman and the Alioth mythtv package list to get more comments about this. Some information is at: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Debian_Sid http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html under the Debian section. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#92571: marked as done (RFP: webmin-debconf -- a frontend to debconf using the webmin framework)
I wonder whether the webmin-debconf ITP/RFP is worth keeping open. Perhaps a description of situations where it would be useful would be enough for someone else to help out. Perhaps it should be changed to webmin-cdebconf. Additionally, please post any information relevant to other people that may want to implement a webmin debconf like front end. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#151711: RFP: badurl -- Custom 403, 404's to slow CGI vulnerability scans (cgi tarpit)
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:46:29PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: [...] The URL provided doesn't work, so I will wait a week for a response and then I will proceed to close this bug since it's very old and probably there's no more upstream work. Jose Luis, [...] That's too bad. I'll try contacting the author. Maybe the script should be kept in this bug. I think it was small enough. I may also still have a copy somewhere if I dig around. Hank Leininger [EMAIL PROTECTED] may now be Hank Leininger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#336153: RC? Kernel 2.6 dm-crypt fs corruption
Shouldn't this well known bug in dm-crypt be fixed in both sarge and etch? Isn't fs corruption release critical? For others, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/12/msg00099.html which points to http://www.spinics.net/lists/dm-crypt/msg00481.html Someone should ask if it should be queued for 2.6.16 too. Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#183553: RFP for steg. tool not further required, but a good starting point for a new project
Hi, I've meant to close this bug, but I was keeping it open as a place holder. This kind of project may be useful to help figure out a way to develop better executable compression. This could be done by pseudo lossy compression by changing the instructions to ones that the compressor likes better. Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#149053: Closing jpeg2000 library bug
Hi, I'd meant to close this. I was going to first open an RFP for a better JPEG 2000 library. This one became largely unmaintained, but is used by at least one downstream package. There seems to be a canonical replacement that I can't be bothered to lookup right now. Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#216740: PAQ8i is the latest version in the suite of archivers
Hi, I'd actually like the latest version of the PAQ data compression program to be packaged. See the maximumcompression website or alike (perhaps the archive comparison test when it gets updated) for a comparison of it to other archivers. The newer versions don't seem like they'll be reverse compatible with old versions, so perhaps one could view this RFP as a request to archive the entire suite of PAQ data compression programs. Please also consider other top ranked compression programs especially since the algorithms and archivers will continue to evolve rapidly probably for at least the next few years. The current PAQ Data Compression Programs website is http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ Thanks, Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#213503: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: knetbsd maintained? want glibc patched for it?]
Just for reference, below is the status of knetbsd. Drew Daniels - Forwarded message from Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:17:56 -0600 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AA== X-IronPort-AV: i=3.97,328,1125896400; d=scan'208; a=99097087:sNHT36036224 From: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Cc: Glibc/k*BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: knetbsd maintained? want glibc patched for it? Organisation: free as in freedom X-DCC-UofM-Metrics: electra 1032; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on Zimmer X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=10.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:55:04PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Hi, Is Debian knetbsd maintained? I know it's nowhere near where Debian kfreebsd is. I ran across the following in bug 213503 that may be of interest to those interested in Debian knetbsd. I haven't checked at all to see if glibc has been patched for knetbsd, but if it has, then the bug could use an update. No, it's not currently maintained. However, since it's also based on Glibc I believe it can be reinstated with minimal effort. Most of the work that has been done on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can be re-used. -- Robert Millan - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#93208: wnpp: RFP: peep, the Network Auralizer
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:45:01PM +0200, David Mart?nez Moreno wrote: El Domingo, 25 de Septiembre de 2005 23:12, Drew Scott Daniels escribi?: [...] I'm cc'ing the developers of peep. For the history of this bug see: http://bugs.debian.org/93208 I'd still be interested in seeing a Debian package of peep, the Network Auralizer. Javi, I don't understand what you mean by for log-interpretation I do prefer log-analys/logcheck. Can these be made to output sounds? If anyone knows of a better auralizer that I could use for network/log events, please let me know. I'd be happy to find a less complicated alternative to peep (and thus have reason to re-close the request for package bug 93208). Upstream development is stalled. The developers are responsive, but it seems they don't have time to do many new developments [1]. I believe they can be convinced to help out with licensing or compilation problems. [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8273164forum_id=4626 In fact, http://www.auralizer.com seems, like any other time I checked since two years ago or so, down with a Connection timed out. Yes, I've noticed that too, but the sourceforge project is still active (although the homesite points to auralizer.com). Google's cache allows people to access some of the subpages on http://peep.sourceforge.net Also, SourceForge seems to bounce my e-mail so I hope it picked up yours. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#99156: wnpp: e2salvage not planned to be packaged in Debian
Hi, There no longer seems to be any interest in packaging e2salvage for Debian. I'm e-mailing the upstream development too, but I know my message will bounce thanks to sourceforge. Fwiw, there seems to be somewhat active interest in development upstream as seen by checkins into the cvs (last checkin 2 months ago?). I see development is still continuing on e2salvage, but what I'm wondering is, why? I don't understand why e2salvage's capabilities couldn't be put into e2fsck as an option. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#87186: wnpp: pvfs, pvfs2
Hi, Upstream development of pvfs and it's successor? pvfs2 still seems to be active, but is slow (at least one development message two months ago, potentially one last month...). According to popcon, three pvfs2 packages are being used by at least one person. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#87186: pvfs2 is active, but maybe not mature
Hi, The development of PVFS2 is quite active [1]. The web site says that PVFS1 is still being very actively maintained and improved and that they will continue to do so until PVFS2 reaches the level of maturity necessary to allow for a smooth transition. [2] [1] See the PVFS2 mailing lists http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2/lists.html [2] http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2/pvfs1.html Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#89554: wnpp: rnmap -- better alternatives available?
Hi, Although rnmap may have authentication, and ssl support, I don't believe it to be as secure as ssh. That combined with the requirement for python make me believe that a better alternative is available (ssh and a locked down shell or simple script). Certainly people who are interested in this would probably also be interested in something like nessus which is more actively developed and better supported. I can't see any evidence of any work on rnmap upstream since July 2003 (more than two years ago). Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#93208: wnpp: RFP: peep, the Network Auralizer
reopen 93208 = done Hi, I'm cc'ing the developers of peep. For the history of this bug see: http://bugs.debian.org/93208 I'd still be interested in seeing a Debian package of peep, the Network Auralizer. Javi, I don't understand what you mean by for log-interpretation I do prefer log-analys/logcheck. Can these be made to output sounds? If anyone knows of a better auralizer that I could use for network/log events, please let me know. I'd be happy to find a less complicated alternative to peep (and thus have reason to re-close the request for package bug 93208). Upstream development is stalled. The developers are responsive, but it seems they don't have time to do many new developments [1]. I believe they can be convinced to help out with licensing or compilation problems. [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8273164forum_id=4626 Drew Daniels P.S.: You might not want to reply to the subscribe and control e-mail addresses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#93367: wnpp: oncelinux -- drivers and programs for the blind
Hi, What's happened with OnceLinux? Upstream is hard to spot, and it looks like there's been little development in the last few years. I see upstream has moved the files around and has a debian directory created recently though. There's several parts to OnceLinux. The OnceLinux SDK, Ciber 232, Eco Braille... It's not clear to me how this system is supposed to work. Is there any programs out there that are SAPI or BAPI aware? Are there any alternatives to OnceLinux? Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#95469: wnpp: cgen -- cpu tools generator
Hi, cgen looks like an interesting tool, but I'm not sure about all of it's uses. The description says it has simulators. What kind of simulator? Could it be used to create an emulator? Are there any alternatives to these tools available in Debian? Note for the Debian bug: Upstream is still quite active (at least on the mailing lists, and cvs). The last release was in 2000 or 2001, but I doubt many of the users aren't following cvs. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#96694: wnpp: majordomo/majordomo2
Hi, I'm just wondering if Majordomo/Majordomo2 would still be a useful package in Debian given that there's things like mailman, fml, ecartis and potentially other alternatives. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#85448: StegFS inactive upstream
Hi, I just did some checking, and StegFS appears to be inactive at both upstreams. The last activity that I see for both is about July of 2004. The last code update I see is marked at 18 months old. The upstream mailing list last was announcing a new developer and some other things, but little more seemed to have happened since. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#327541: festival 1.96 from 200509xx compiles ok on sarge
Hi, It seems 1.96 is an evolving version, but the snapshot I picked up last week compiled just fine on my i386 sarge system (I used the nice download and compile script that was mentioned in the beginning of this bug report). I further read that the big thing holding back the 2.0 release was that it didn't compile on all compilers. I now see the Blizzard 2006 challenge says that there will be some kind of release January 2006, but it doesn't say of what (I've just asked). Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#327541: festival: new version 1.95 beta and possible 1.96 are out
Package: festival Version: 1.4.3-16 Severity: wishlist Hi, Festival 1.95 beta has been out since 14th Jul 2004. Is the delay in packaging it due to any known or suspected problems (other than any transition delays or its beta status)? With a bit of searching, one can also find a preliminary 1.96 too (e.g.'s www.forumsforyou.com/p/comp.speech.users/festival_to_file_341.html as well as https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/festlang-talk/2005-August/000447.html and http://sourceforge.net/projects/asteriskathome/ ). The OGlresLPC 2.1.0 plugin works with Festival 1.96 and older according to http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/download/ I'd like to give it a try on sarge so any advice you can give would be appreciated. Also, have you heard anything about the anticipated 2.0 release? Thanks Drew Daniels -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages festival depends on: ii festvox-kallpc16k [festival 1.4.0-5 American English male speaker for ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libestools1.2c102 1:1.2.3-8Edinburgh Speech Tools Library ii libncurses5 5.4-4Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii sgml-base 1.26 SGML infrastructure and SGML catal -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#316183: Incorrect compression ratio in gzip -l for large files
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:37:47AM +1000, David Luyer wrote: Package: gzip Version: 1.3.5-11 It looks like gzip is storing the incorrect filesize for large files (probably only 32bits of it). Here's a roughly 40GiB file (or at least a tar file of 39GiB of files) compressed to roughly 2.6GiB. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/acct-archive-log# gzip -l acct-log-to-20050227.tar.gz compresseduncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 260596669961474816 -4139.1% acct-log-to-20050227.tar If the file size is too large to store in the bits available maybe it should be stored as '-1' so gzip -l will be consistent with other formats it doesn't know the uncompressed size of? This is a known and documented problem. Perhaps rather than closing it this time, it should be marked wontfix. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#218699: findimagedups not maintained, other similar upsrtreams mentioned
http://kudla.org/raindog/perl/ says: [2002/02/06 23:55] PixiePlus now supports similar image finding using an algorithm based on mine, and for those unable to run a current version of KDE, gqview will also find your similar images, albeit using a different algorithm whose results I haven't compared with my own. Both are FAR faster than findimagedupes and, I would say, both make it obsolete. If someone else would like to continue its development for web or other non-GUI purposes (this means you, Debian maintainers ;) ), by all means feel free, but consider my itch scratched. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#306858: freepops: better description would be nice
Package: freepops Version: 0.0.27-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, It'd be nice if freepops mentioned other packages like gotmail since it seems to provide the same or similar functionality. Likewise it would be also nice to list which web services work with freepops. Both these changes would make this package easier to find for those interested. A better description might be something like: POP3 interface to several webmails freepopsd is a POP3 daemon that translates local POP3 commands to remote HTTP requests to the supported webmail sites. freepopsd can also be used as RSS aggregator and POP3 forwarder. Unlike gotmail, this package lets your POP3 e-mail client choose when to poll. freepopsd provides plugins believed to work for at least the following services: Libero.IT, Tin.IT, DAVEMAIL, POPforward, RSS/RDF aggregator, flatnuke, kernel.org Changelog viewer, GMail.com, yahoo.com, SquirrelMail, hotmail.com, aol.com, Tre, Supereva web mail, and mail.com. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#265045: unrar: silently replaces unrar [nonfree] but don't have the same features
Hi, Couldn't the free version of unrar's error message could be modified to say that the non-free version might work. This wouldn't help automated scripts, but would be another useful place to inform users. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation
Hi, Sorry about not using the right pts e-mail addresses. Since this is now an ITP I won't worry about it for this bug. Fwiw, I didn't get any bounces, I think this should eventually get rolled into bzip2 (including upstream), I'll be more careful about pts e-mail addresses in the future. Drew Daniels On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:47:55PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:47:59PM -0500, Mike Furr wrote: Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: |Mike, I would like to make pbzip2 part of the bzip2 package. May I |take over your ITP report? Sure, that would be fine, take it. Thank you. Since the RFP cc'd you and I didn't hear from anyone in a couple of days, I wasn't sure if you were interested (and I'm definitely interested in using it :). I couldn't find the original RFP message in my mail box. The following X header line in the RFP seems to be wrong: X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magnus Ekdahl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instead of packages.qa.debian.org in that line, it should have been packages.debian.org. - -Mike Kind regards, Anibal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Debian GNU/Linux : :' : Free Operating System `. `' http://debian.org/ `- http://v7w.com/anibal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation
Subject: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.8.3 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ * License: BSD-style license. For details, see the file LICENSE.txt Description: parallel bzip2 implementation PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2). I've cc'd (via the bts) a bunch of pts lists in case any of you are interested in this. Also compression related is kalzip (an alz creator) at sourceforge. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
