.com/en/resources/product-security/support-policy.html>.)
I also don't think these vulnerabilities are likely to be a practical
concern for people using 32-bit-only CPUs. But we definitely should
discourage users from using i386 kernel packages on 64-bit-capable
hardware, if we don'
ou think will be needed
from us?
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it heads-up.
I've made a team upload of iproute2 (version 6.10.0-2) with this change
reverted.
Luca, please leave the symlink in place at least as long as there are
packages that rely on it.
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at right?
This would mean that a driver needed for the internal keyboard was
missing. The keyboard-configuration package wouldn't help with this.
We'll need to update the list of drivers included in the installer.
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be more productive to calm down a bit and let people play
> with that compiler a bit before making it the default.
That's what we're doing.
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Version : 2.0.0-b3 (would be 1.99+2.0.0b3 in Debian)
Upstream Author : Mark Wallis et al
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* License : GPL
Descr
Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > * Package name: rt2x00
>
> > This package would contain version 2 of the rt2x00 drivers that are
> > currently distributed as separate rt2400 and rt2500 packages (and a
> > prop
D presented for this person was
issued based on an existing passport and not only his claimed name.
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ainer to implement, while you seem to dig into details on how the
> proposed target names should be internally implemented ...
"debian/rules clean" should remove patches so that dpkg-buildpackage
doesn't include the patches in the diff.gz twice. (It might also have
to apply a patc
the upstream
web site <http://www.code-aster.org/>. (The initials used to stand for
Electricité de France, but the company has diversified and no longer
expands the initials.)
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A. I don
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than data pointers so that the dlsym() function can work.
Itanium natively requires functions to be identified by a 64-bit
instruction pointer plus a 64-bit global data pointer. The ABI defines
function pointers to point to these 128-bit data structures.
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Life is like a s
m-templates> as the starting point
for a test of packaging. However, since these are public knowledge you
would need to take care to detect candidates who are cribbing and not
finding their own answers.
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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't
uot;better": add them to /etc/ld.so.preload and they apply
system-wide.
I would say filesystem snapshots are the neatest way to allow undoing
deletion, though.
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y the preinst script. The
only sure way to check for them is to have dpkg run the script, which
the final figure of 27 conflicts is based on.
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Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.
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cision.
>
> Hopefully, we will never end up with an architecture where sizeof(long)
> != sizeof(void *)
Linux has a convention predating intptr_t of using long for that
purpose, so Linux won't allow such an ABI.
> or sizeof(int) != 4.
GNU requires that, unless I'm much mistaken.
Be
1
>
> Those three equalities are not part of any ABI. They are written into
> the C standard, in the definition of the sizeof() operator. They will
> never be false.
I just removed them for this reason.
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Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it m
tecture where CHAR_BITS != 8,
but I doubt it; too much software depends on having exactly-8-bit types.
Until then, why bother? (Similarly there's little point in including
sizeof(short) and sizeof(int); they don't vary between our current
architectures and are very unlikely to do so in f
n-exported:
Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have
no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due
to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents
moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list
to set the size of the buddy icons displayed in the chat window.
> * An option to let the window manager place new windows.
> * Two different ways of seeing that your buddies are typing.
> * An optional send button for Tablet PC users.
Maybe you could wait to see whether this fork lasts, and
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On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 23:26 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20/06/2008):
> > $ sudo aptitude reinstall ncurses-base
uot;) = 0
It looks like it's unpacking the archive under /tmp, generating
checksums, then deleting the files as it goes. Before unlinking it uses
chmod, presumably to ensure the unlink will succeed. But chmod follows
sym-links, and these sym-links are absolute so it chmods
I cloned bug #487317 as #487319; the former is assigned to debsums and
the latter to perl-modules.
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 00:43 -0500, Drake Wilson wrote:
> Quoth Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-06-20 23:36:51 +0100:
> > debsums is doing it:
> [strace elided]
>
, and
the preferred form for doing that would presumably be the one that's
published.
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hould we
> only relay on #debian-devel irc channel topic to know this?
[...]
This is what debian-infrastructure-announce is for (though
debian-devel-announce might be appropriate in some cases). But there
was no announcement in this case.
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On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 21:24 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 20:16:06 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 20:25 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > today ries (aka ftp-master) was down due to a sche
omment on this?
If the virtual package name is to be meaningful, there must be some definition
of what capabilities a dyndns-client provides to depending packages, e.g. a
specific command and options. Does that exist?
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the progra
the application
should not normally suggest all its plugins - some of them may be of
very limited interest, and it should not be necessary to change the
application package whenever a new plugin is packaged.
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INTAINERS file in the kernel source
tree. It is also packaged in the linux-doc-$version packages.
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e.decadent.org.uk/blog - latest entry copied as
http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk/ben-hutchings-debian-kernel-team-at-linux-plumbers-conference/open-source/).
Copyright in each of these blogs remains with their authors. While Planet
Debian has permission to copy each of them, the site owner (presumably R
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 04:14 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The "blog" at <http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk>, which is hosted in your IP
> space, is a copy of Planet Debian <http://planet.debian.org>, apparently
> intended to gain keyword advertising revenue.
>
> Pl
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 07:34 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Ben Hutchings dijo [Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:14:45AM -0700]:
> > The "blog" at <http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk>, which is hosted in your IP
> > space, is a copy of Planet Debian <http://planet.debian.org>, ap
t be backported into lenny?
Maybe, if you file a wishlist bug against linux-2.6.
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On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:44 +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Il 30 settembre 2009 03.32, Ben Hutchings ha scritto:
> > It's in the Linux kernel already, but support for this particular model
> > appears to have been added after Linux 2.6.26.
>
> Uhm... are you sure? Can y
rmware-linux-nonfree doesn't seem to
> be available so I can't use my e100 Ethernet ports (which are essential for
> the test machine in question).
[...]
That package is currently called firmware-linux but will be renamed
shortly because we now also package the DFSG-free firmwar
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:51 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > That package is currently called firmware-linux but will be renamed
> > shortly because we now also package the DFSG-free firmware from the
> > Linux tree as firmware-l
nstalled, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2,199kB of archives.
> After this operation, 4,820kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
> How to solve it?
[...]
dmsetup conflicts with devicekit-disks due to #545032 (closed, but
repor
ion, but I'm feeding those patches upstream as well), and we do not
carry out significant development of our own (at least, not in our Debian
roles).
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nd/or 1400x1050, not 1440x1050.
Add 800x480 and 1024x600 for the EeePC and similar netbooks.
There's a diagram of some of the common screen sizes at:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Vector_Video_Standards2.svg
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to
el team then, because we do this all the
time. Or you could think through your suggestions.
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at least one of the
> architectures in Debian. :)
It *usually* does.
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can handle in a day is probably around 230K
22:28 < dondelelcaro> (there's about 1.5 hours left, and we're already at 197K)
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t; each operation instead of checking errno later).
[...]
In general you cannot rely on checking errno because it is not defined
whether a successful operation clears it.
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
ns actually used as additional source
dependencies, and ensuring that these source dependencies are satisfied
within each release, you should not use this approach.
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 02:34 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 02.11.2009 00:00, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 23:14 +0100, Hector Oron wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>I would like to do a little explanation on the ITP I have filled for
> &g
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 07:31 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ben Hutchings:
>
> > You can disagree all you like, but I believe that the FTP team will
> > currently reject any new packages that use source code from their build-
> > dependencies.
>
> Surely this is no
; on the net. Really bad
> > especial for those who need them most - newbees.
> > ALT-CTRL-F7 is somewhat of a standard.
> >
> It's already broken on fedora, at least. So if it's a standard, it's a
> dying one.
If Fedora jumps off a cliff (I wouldn't pu
. libata presents ATA/ATAPI
drives as SCSI devices, so hard drive partitions will change
from /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX.
In preparation for this partition, /etc/fstab and the kernel parameters
in boot-loader configs should be changed to specify partitions by UUID
or label name so that they work with both
After all, it could make more sense to change
> > from hd* to UUIDs or labels instead of from hd* to sd*, to compensate
> > for the lack of stable naming of sd* device nodes.
>
> uuid, label, et.al do not work for VFAT or NTFS, do they?
Of course they do.
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ot to be kidding. Quite apart from the irony of a GPL'd
obfuscator, this won't really protect sensitive information, and will
only give its immediate users a false sense of security (just as DRM
does to publishers).
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/dev/ttyUSB0 ATDT123456
Which I can trivially can do with stty and echo already, no?
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han it would have been in C.
> Is there something that you want to package that depends on this?
I do hope not; this should never be used in production. But it may yet
be useful in hardware development.
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attitude isn't well suited for an Debian developer. Try
> be more helpful instead of sounding like a dick.
If this was the first bug report from jidanni, sure, but jidanni is a
regular bug reporter and really ought to have learned better by now.
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f themselves a
> quite substantial and needless extra bloat. They are considerably larger
> than gdb is itself, and needing to put extra flash on a board, just to
> install python, which the board itself will never use, hits a much harder
> limit than an extra 4MB package in the archive wou
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 08:25 +1030, Ron wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:12:44PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Why would you install gdb on a (non-development) system, rather than a
> > gdb stub?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something cool and obvious here, but in the part
#x27;d be going
> out on a limb to suggest this will be of benefit to far more people than
> the number who'll need python scripts to use gdb. Am I?
>
> Really, what am I missing here?
What you're missing is that gdb's scripting facilities were pathetic,
and Python integr
to build a kernel.
> >
> > We will be rationalising this to two methods, an upstream merged "make
> > deb-pkg" target and the linux-2.6 Debian source.
Done.
> > We will also be rationalising the kernel postinst and co-ordinating
> > our efforts with
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> >> > OSS
> >> > ---
> >> >
> >> > This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be
> >> > di
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 19:39 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you up
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports
> > without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant
> > breakage though some packages may rely on deprecate
grades if the ABI does change?
>
> Would someone care to explain to the rest of the project?
Once we are finished with major changes to 2.6.32 (such as the libata
transition) the ABI version will change from 'trunk' to '1' and we will
then try to avoid unnecessary ABI cha
Why do companies care about "unauthorised" copying of firmware that's
essential to and only useful for their hardware? I've never understood
this. Perhaps it's something the lawyers put in by default.)
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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/21/07 00:59, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:51 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:06:45PM -0500, Edward
#x27;t need to pander to (and has probably been fixed in the
mean time).
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for (n = 0; n < num_socks; n++) {
close(socks[n]);
-- END --
I expect this would be acceptable to upstream too.
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13 22:49:40 EDT 2007
Looks OK to me. (If you say +N days that ends up at the same time of
day local time.)
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lines of 80 characters) within the
same textarea in Iceweasel in 1 second on a similar system. Copying the
same from emacs to Iceweasel takes about 1.5 seconds. So it sounds as
if kedit could be at fault.
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inux RAM disk, it's a
lot like the RAM disk provided by the AmigaOS and maybe some other
operating systems. I can see that it would be more correct and perhaps
less confusing for the manual page to say "tmpfs" though.
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be an issue for
debian-devel. This mailing list is about development of Debian, not
programming using a Debian system.
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compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
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mum. Many have three or more now.
> And even consumer mainboards.
And almost every laptop comes with wired and wireless interfaces.
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of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999
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f (defined($max_pri_suite)) {
print "Default suite is $max_pri_suite\n";
} else {
print "No sources for Debian main\n";
}
### END ###
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an implementation, so only distributing binaries that
include the claimed invention could infringe. I'm not sure whether this
has been legally tested.
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we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 20:29 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I notice ia64 has ia32-libs and ia32-libs-dev, but I can't seem to find a
> compiler to build i386 binaries.
Use the -m32 option to gcc.
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On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 02:32 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> On 14-Apr-2007 00:43.04 (BST), Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I notice ia64 has ia32-libs and ia32-libs-dev, but I can't seem to find a
> > > compiler to build i386 binaries.
> > Use the -m32 option to gcc.
d behaviour" bugs that will only
show up in optimised builds. You have to stop relying on source lines
and look at the disassembly, of course.
Also, oprofile wants debugging information, and there's no sense in
turning optimisations off for that!
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; a result of -O2 getting better).
It's now quite capable of telling the debugger that a source line has
ended up in several different chunks of object code, and that a variable
moves around between memory and registers.
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When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Wi
ol server. I don't know
whether that supports queries by address or whether it just serves up
whole debug databases, but it seems to work reasonably quickly. (But
unsurprisingly it's providing quite sparse information about Windows
binaries.)
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When you say `I wro
rough that Wiki page suggests that the various
"retrace" tools do that. So perhaps Apport would be suitable for
Debian, though we would need to expand architecture support.
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When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey,
inux-kbuild (formerly
kernel-kbuild).
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u want only one, this
> hack would need to be refined.
I can't help thinking that the code should never be reused. Even if its
semantics are correct, the repeated re-parsing and pseudo-parsing with
different tools is quite opaque.
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iscussion would yield something better that might
eventually be accepted cover a whole release.
So there will be a BoF at DebConf about this.
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On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 19:46 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:51:38PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > There were some discussions on -private (and possibly here?) earlier in
> > the year about quality vs quantity of packages.
>
> > It should be
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:48 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:38:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 19:46 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:51:38PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > >
#x27;n/a')
> distinfo.update({ 'RELEASE' : release, 'CODENAME' : codename })
> else:
> distinfo['RELEASE'] = release
>
> if 'RELEASE' in distinfo:
> distinfo['DESCRIPTION'] += ' %
ing dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't
> work. So how should the -dev package provide correct dependency information
> in these cases?
The ion3 package provides "ion3-api-" + an API identifier, and
separately-packaged modules depend on this. The API identifier is in
one of the header
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 18:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:58:02AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > > What evidence do you have that serious security bugs "won't get
> > > > > fixed" in a
> > > > >
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 16:22 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2007 at 15:15:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > #382607 (CVE-2006-4041) has apparently not been touched in 9 months.
> > This is probably mitigated by the fix for #368645 (CVE-2006-2314), but
packages within them.
However, if one wants technical support from an ISV, it is probably
necessary to install a specific stable release and to avoid using
packages from a mixture of releases (or backports). In this case,
lsb_r
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