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

Hi, Russell Stuart: > > > > - array variables. > > No workaround for this one? Pity. This is what usually prevents > conversion. Well, you could use $ary_len to remember the length of the array, "$(eval "echo \"\$ary_$pos\"")" for retrieving values, and val="some random valu

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

Hi, Raphael Geissert: > On Friday 26 September 2014 18:48:37 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > [...] > > In any case, adding "-p" to any #!/bin/bash shebang line looks like a very > > good idea. Shall we add a Lintian check for this? > > No. > … and why not? Importing random functions from the environ

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

Hi, Christian PERRIER: > > According to a security audit by Taylor Hornby (Defuse Security), the > > current > > implementation of Encfs is vulnerable or potentially vulnerable to multiple > > attacks on the encrypted data. This especially affects use cases where the > > attacker has read/wri

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

Quoting Eduard Bloch (e...@gmx.de): > Template: encfs/security-information > Type: note > _Description: Encfs Security Information Besides using an Evil Debconf Note (;-) ), is there a reason for capitalizing every noun in the note title ? BTW, that might be a use case for the debconf "error" da

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

On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 21:56 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > It also sounds quite stupid that suddenly all users have no working > mirror anymore, should there be an outage of ftp-master or > security-master longer than the signing time. Well I don't see why this must necessarily happen. Even if ftp-

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

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 11:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > snapshot is a read-only (modulo cosmic rays and removal of > non-redistributable things) historical record, files in it will not be > modified to re-sign with newer keys nor to update Valid-Until. So what would you do now, when one of the past

Bug#763302: ITP: ruby-rspec-its -- Provides "its" method for RSpec 3 extracted from rspec-core 2.x

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: KURASHIKI Satoru * Package name: ruby-rspec-its Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Peter Alfvin * URL : https://github.com/rspec/rspec-its * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Provides "its" method

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

Package: snapshot.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > 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 o

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

On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 16:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've attempted to port the many shell scripts I've written over the > > years to dash. The three irritants are: > > > > - pipefail, > > . That's one of those "scratch my eyes out" solut

Processed: Re: Bug#763209: general: laptop panel no longer powers off

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 763209 + moreinfo Bug #763209 [general] general: laptop panel no longer powers off Added tag(s) moreinfo. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 763209: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Bug#763209: general: laptop panel no longer powers off

tags 763209 + moreinfo thanks Hey, On 28/09/14 19:33, allan grossman wrote: > Up until this morning's updates my monitor powered off after 10 minutes of > inactivity. DPMS can no longer power the monitor off, even using 'xset dpms > force off' > > Attaching /var/log/apt/history.log Allan, ca

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

Hallo, * Eduard Bloch [Thu, Sep 11 2014, 04:55:14PM]: > > (What would be the right way to do that? Lower the severtiy of the bug? > > Add a jessie-ignore tag?) > > > > To notify users about the potential security issue, a NEWS file could > > be added, or one could add a warning to the output of th

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

On 2014-09-25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:18:02PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes > > Holschuh wrote: > > > OTOH, using -z9 on datasets smaller than the -z8 dictionary size > > > *is* a waste of memory (I don't know about cpu

Re: Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

On Friday 26 September 2014 18:48:37 Matthias Urlichs wrote: [...] > In any case, adding "-p" to any #!/bin/bash shebang line looks like a very > good idea. Shall we add a Lintian check for this? No. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#763275: ITP: opencfu -- A C++ program to count cell colonies (CFUs) on agar plates by processing digital pictures

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Quentin Geissmann * Package name: opencfu Version : 3.9.0 Upstream Author : Quentin Geissmann * URL : http://opencfu.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A C++ program to count cel

Bug#763273: ITP: responses -- A utility library for mocking out the `requests` Python library.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Chopin * Package name: responses Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : David Cramer * URL : https://github.com/dropbox/responses/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Utility library fo

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

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:09PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 28, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > - pipefail, > > . > Very practical. > There *is* a reason if we don't write all of our programs in C. And if you do then there is pipeline_wai

Bug#763209: general: laptop panel no longer powers off

Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Received and installed updates to Jessie this morning. Up until this morning's updates my monitor powered off after 10 minutes of inactivity. DPMS can no longer power the monitor off, even using 'xset dpms fo

Bug#763203: ITP: libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl -- PDL::Graphics::PLplot - Object-oriented interface from perl/PDL to the PLPLOT plotting library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Henning Glawe * Package name: libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl Version : 0.67 Upstream Author : Doug Hunt * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDL-Graphics-PLplot/ * License : GPL, Artistic, available at /usr/share/common-lic

Bug#763199: ITP: libpdl-fftw-perl -- PDL::FFTW - PDL interface to the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West v2.x

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Henning Glawe * Package name: libpdl-fftw-perl Version : 2.022 Upstream Author : Chris Marshall * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDL-FFTW/ * License : GPL, Artistic, available at * /usr/share/common-licenses/{GPL,Art

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

On Sep 28, Guillem Jover wrote: > > - pipefail, > . Very practical. There *is* a reason if we don't write all of our programs in C. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:42:24 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 09/27/2014 05:36 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian and thus your > > code would optimize for an already tiny part of the population that is going > > to only decrease: arm, mips

Re: virt-manager

On 14Sep27:0806-0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > 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 preventi

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:42 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Just to be sure: is ppc64el also using little endian? Yes; that's why the name ends in "el". Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

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

Hi! On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:39:50 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 09:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:11:44PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > Does update-menus really need bash? Why? > > > > pipefail is actually a fairly useful bashism. > >

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

> - pipefail, > - local variables, > - array variables. > > If dash had those features Please don't -- some of us appreciate the fact that /bin/sh is a reasonably minimal shell. Both ksh93 and pdksh/mksh have all three of those, if memory serves. -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

Hi, Quoting Thomas Goirand (2014-09-28 12:42:24) > Just to be sure: is ppc64el also using little endian? yes it is. Here is a great overview which answers that question and others: https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: binary data file and endianness and multiarch

On 09/27/2014 05:36 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian and thus your > code would optimize for an already tiny part of the population that is going > to only decrease: arm, mips switched from mostly be to almost only le, and > the newest Debian a

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

On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 09:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:11:44PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > Does update-menus really need bash? Why? > > pipefail is actually a fairly useful bashism. I've attempted to port the many shell scripts I've written over the years to da

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

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:11:44PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > Does update-menus really need bash? Why? pipefail is actually a fairly useful bashism. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.