Re: Why is su preserving the environment?

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 08:41:37AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > it has been brought to my attention (through #512803) that su does not > clean the environment at all. This has several security implications: > * variables like PERL5LIB or GTK_MODULES can be passed to another > use

Why is su preserving the environment?

2009-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, it has been brought to my attention (through #512803) that su does not clean the environment at all. This has several security implications: * variables like PERL5LIB or GTK_MODULES can be passed to another user, leading to unwanted execution of code; * variables like DBUS_

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > In addition, I thought that the 'notest' build option that was discussed > last year (or the year before?) on this list made it into the Policy, > but I was wrong. nocheck will be in 3.8.1 (see Bug#416450), but it doesn't really address your issue. > Maybe I overvaluate

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Stefano, Adeodato and Noah, thank you for your answers. Indeed, I wrote my previous mail after packaging half a dozen of perl modules, plus enabling tests in a python package. For compiled programs, the situation is definitely more simple. However, as Stefano noted, there may be sometimes mor

Re: Packaging of a few new wireless packages

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: > I'd like to help get a few new wireless userspace applications > packaged into Debian unstable. Here are the new ones: > > * iw http://packages.debian.org/experimental/iw > * crda > * wireless-regdb Probably the best contact is Debian/Ubuntu wpasupplicant Maintainer

Re: deprecated server packages in lenny?

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Can anybody suggest a set of packages in a similar state with lenny? tinyerp, replaced with the all new openerp (same upstream, but new major version which will requiring manual upgrade/migration of the psql db). although probably almost everyone already does, it's finally

Packaging of a few new wireless packages

2009-01-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
I'd like to help get a few new wireless userspace applications packaged into Debian unstable. Here are the new ones: * iw * crda * wireless-regdb iw is used to configure new cfg80211 based wireless drivers (all mac80211 drivers for example). wireless-regdb contains the wireless regulatory databas

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Noah Slater
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:24:41PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > What about providing a test target in debian/rules and hooking into this > > automatically with pdebuild. You should be able to run tests from within the > > chroot without having to modify your debian/control file. > > One of the

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du vendredi 23 janvier 2009, vers 18:55, Noah Slater disait : > What about providing a test target in debian/rules and hooking into this > automatically with pdebuild. You should be able to run tests from within the > chroot without having to modify your debian/con

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Noah Slater
What about providing a test target in debian/rules and hooking into this automatically with pdebuild. You should be able to run tests from within the chroot without having to modify your debian/control file. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: Gnomesword, libsword, diatheke, sword modules, bibletime

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Glassey
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hello, > > a person from the Ubuntu community forwarded this mail of yours to a > Debian list. > > All these problems you enumerate should be responsibility of the > designated maintainer (Daniel Glassey). You say that you haven't been > succ

Re: Gnomesword, libsword, diatheke, sword modules, bibletime

2009-01-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, a person from the Ubuntu community forwarded this mail of yours to a Debian list. All these problems you enumerate should be responsibility of the designated maintainer (Daniel Glassey). You say that you haven't been successful in contacting him; maybe it's that he has lost interest in the

deprecated server packages in lenny?

2009-01-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
The etch release notes documented several major server packages as being deprecated, and stated that they'd be removed for lenny. These include Apache 1, php4, mysql 4, etc. Users were encouraged to migrate to their replacement packages, which were already included in etch. Can anybody suggest a

Bug#512754: ITP: get-iplayer -- download or stream any available BBC iPlayer TV or radio programme

2009-01-23 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Wiltshire * Package name: get-iplayer Version : 1.20 Upstream Author : Phil Lewis * URL : http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Perl Description : download/stream available B

Bug#512745: ITP: pct-wireless-setup -- program to configure wireless networks with system width configuration and profiles options

2009-01-23 Thread Jelle de Jong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelle de Jong Hello everybody, I would like to get this program into the debian repository, I will package it and upload it to debian mentors, I will be looking for a sponser and mentor. This package is part of a larger group of packages that will form

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Charles Plessy [Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:53:59 +0900]: > Dear all, > I packaged a lot programs that have a test suite, and realised that, > in order to run it after build, the dependancies of the binary package > produced must be present as well. I think you've brought up this in the past already,

Processed: cleanup

2009-01-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > close 292481 Bug#292481: Collaborative repository of package meta-information is needed 'close' is deprecated; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing. Bug closed, send any further explanations to Artur Górniak > reassign 512717 gener

Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

2009-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:53:59PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I packaged a lot programs that have a test suite, and realised that, in order > to run it after build, the dependancies of the binary package produced must be > present as well. For the moment, I add them in Build-Depends(-Indep), bu