Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 08:42:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > In the case of bash, dpkg can (and does!) use bash explicitly (i.e., > > > without going through /bin/sh), so removing bash will pretty much nuke > > > your system. > > > > H

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> That's not what my mail was about. My point is that the issue with the >> software should be resolved upstream, > in my case, it cannot be resolved upstream, Yes, abandoned software is a problem, unfortunately quite common in the scientific community. (Understandably so, since researchers ge

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello All, thanks for your answer. On 27/09/14 23:37, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >>> Standardising on big-endian is a good idea [...] > >> Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian > > That's not what my mail was about. My point is that the issue with the > software should be

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> Standardising on big-endian is a good idea [...] > Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian That's not what my mail was about. My point is that the issue with the software should be resolved upstream, rather than implementing yet another dodgy hack in dpkg. Which particul

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-09-27 11:18:18 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On 27 Sep 2014, at 10:36, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian > > And yet, network byte order remains big. But does this matter in the context of these binary data files? On 2014-09-

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-09-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > Well I think snapshot is it's own construction site, isn't it? > > snapshot is a read-only (modulo cosmic rays and removal of > non-redistributable things) historical record, files in

repost: Reproducible builds? I never did any - manually

2014-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, for those who don't read planet.d.o... # Reproducible builds? I never did any - manually :) I've never done a reproducible build attempt of any package, manually, ever. But what I've done now is setting up [reproducible builds] (https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds) on [jenkins.debia

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Guillem Jover wrote: > > In the case of bash, dpkg can (and does!) use bash explicitly (i.e., > > without going through /bin/sh), so removing bash will pretty much nuke > > your system. > > Hmm, where? Wouter has been too quick, it's not dpkg. The output shown by Troy po

Re: Licensing issue in images files on several packages

2014-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Clement, On Samstag, 27. September 2014, Clement Hermann wrote: > > If there is no reply to this issue yet again (in say two weeks) I'd > > recommend filing bugs about this. RC bugs. This also follows nicely the > > tradition of making the freeze longer by filing bugs late ;-/ > I did, only wit

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 18:30:17 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:32:18AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > So far, I need to do the following to remove bash (and associated risk of > > 0-days until something sane is done about functions) > > That is not supported, so

Bug#763081: ITP: python-pytest-django -- Django plugin for the py.test Python testing tool

2014-09-27 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: python-pytest-django Version : 2.6.2 Upstream Author : Ben Firshman, Andreas Pelme and contributors * URL : https://github.com/pelme/pytest_django * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Troy, On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:32:18AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > So far, I need to do the following to remove bash (and associated risk of > 0-days until something sane is done about functions) That is not supported, sorry. Bash is in the "essential" set, which means that packages can

Re: Licensing issue in images files on several packages

2014-09-27 Thread Clement Hermann
Hi, On 23/09/2014 16:52, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 4. August 2014, Clement Hermann wrote: > >> I saw that on my Sid system, some packages have the same issue : >> rgrep -rl 'by-sa/2\.0' /usr/share/icons/*/scalable |xargs dlocate >> --package-only >> gitg >> network-manager-gnome >> soundco

bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
So far, I need to do the following to remove bash (and associated risk of 0-days until something sane is done about functions) So far everything I've tested on one desktop and one server is fine. What reasonable ways might there be to support changes to a few packages to run wheezy without bash,

Re: virt-manager

2014-09-27 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Fabrice Aeschbacher wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > For now, virt-manager v1.x is in experimental only (1.0.1). > > The freeze for Jessie is approaching, and I wondered if something > particular is preventing the package migration from experimental to > unstable bef

virt-manager

2014-09-27 Thread Fabrice Aeschbacher
Dear maintainers, For now, virt-manager v1.x is in experimental only (1.0.1). The freeze for Jessie is approaching, and I wondered if something particular is preventing the package migration from experimental to unstable before the freeze (in less than 6 weeks). Upstream, v1.0.0 is out for 7 mon

Bug#763045: ITP: libparse-pmfile-perl -- module to parse .pm file as PAUSE does

2014-09-27 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libparse-pmfile-perl Version : 0.26 Upstream Author : Kenichi Ishigaki * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Parse-PMFile *

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonathan Dowland: > It's less important which endian they pick, but that they pick one and use it > consistently across arches. > The advantage of using big-endian data on a little-endian system is that you actually have a chance of finding mis-swapped and/or mis-sized items. I do admit th

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 10:36, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian And yet, network byte order remains big. It's less important which endian they pick, but that they pick one and use it consistently across arches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mass "do not use bash" bug filing

2014-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 26. September 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I was once accused of doing an unannounced MBF after filing a single > bug. :> It's not necessarily the bug volume that triggers anti-MBF > defence mechanisms in developers. lol / wow! /me giggles signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

2014-09-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:41:42AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Standardising on big-endian is a good idea, not only because it is the > canonical byte ordering, but also because little-endian arches tend to > have more efficient byte-swapping instructions. Except that the endianness war has