4 [NB: I use this as a thought record/scribble, not everything on here
5 makes sense and/or is actually ever going to get done, so IIWY I
6 wouldn't use it as gospel for the future of katie or as a TODO
7 list for random hacking.]
9 ================================================================================
14 o What to do with multi-suite uploads? Presumably hold in unapproved
15 and warn? Or what? Can't accept just for unstable or reject just
18 o Whenever we check for anything in accepted we also need to check in
21 o non-sourceful uploads should go straight through if they have
22 source in accepted or the archive.
24 o security uploads on auric should be pre-approved.
30 <aj> i'd be kinda inclined to go with insisting the .changes file take
31 the form ---- BEGIN PGP MESSAGE --- <non -- BEGIN/END lines> --
32 BEGIN PGP SIG -- END PGP MESSAGE -- with no lines before or after,
33 and rejecting .changes that didn't match that
35 o rene should check for source packages not building any binaries
37 o heidi should have a diff mode that accepts diff output!
39 o halle doesn't deal with melanie'd packages, partial replacements
42 o lauren, the tramp, blindly deletes with no check that the delete
43 failed which it might well given we only look for package/version,
44 not package/version _in p-u_. duh.
46 o melanie should remove obsolete changes when removing from p-u, or
47 at least warn. or halle should handle it.
49 o need a testsuite _badly_
51 o lisa should have an Bitch-Then-Accept option
53 o jennifer crashes if run as a user in -n mode when orig.tar.gz is
56 <elmo_home> [<random>maybe I should reject debian packages with a non-Debian origin or bugs field</>]
57 <Kamion> [<random>agreed; dunno what origin does but non-Debian bugs fields would be bad]
59 o rhona should make use of select..except select, temporary tables
60 etc. rather than looping and calling SQL every time so we can do
61 suite removal sanely (see potato-removal document)
63 o melanie will happily include packages in the Cc list that aren't
66 o melanie doesn't remove udebs when removing the source they build from
68 o check_dsc_against_db's "delete an entry from files while you're
69 not looking" habit is Evil and Bad.
71 o lisa allows you to edit the section and change the component, but
74 o melanie needs to, when not sending bug close mails, promote Cc: to
75 To: and send the mail anyways.
77 o the lockfile (Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress) should probably be in a conf file
79 o madison should cross-check the b.source field and if it's not null
80 and s.name linked from it != the source given in
81 -S/--source-and-binary ignore.
83 o lauren sucks; she should a) only spam d-i for sourceful
84 rejections, b) sort stuff so she rejects sourceful stuff first. the
85 non-sourceful should probably get a form mail, c) automate the
86 non-sourceful stuff (see b).
88 o jennifer should do q-d stuff for faster AA [ryan]
90 o split the morgue into source and binary so binaries can be purged first!
92 o per-architecture priorities for things like different arch'es
93 gcc's, silly BSD libftw, palo, etc.
95 o use postgres 7.2's built-in stat features to figure out how indices are used etc.
97 o neve shouldn't be using location, she should run down suites instead
99 o halle needs to know about udebs
101 o by default hamstring katie's mail sending so that she won't send
102 anything until someone edits a script; she's been used far too
103 much to send spam atm :(
105 o $ftpdir/indices isn't created by rose because it's not in katie.conf
107 o sanity check depends/recommends/suggests too? in fact for any
110 [minor] kelly's copychanges, copykatie handling sucks, the per-suite
111 thing is static for all packages, so work out in advance dummy.
113 [madison] # filenames ?
114 [madison] # maintainer, component, install date (source only?), fingerprint?
116 o UrgencyLog stuff should minimize it's bombing out(?)
117 o Log stuff should open the log file
119 o helena should footnote the actual notes, and also * the versions
120 with notes so we can see new versions since being noted...
122 o helena should have alternative sorting options, including reverse
123 and without or without differentiaion.
125 o julia should sync debadmin and ftpmaster (?)
127 o <drow> Can't read file.:
128 /org/security.debian.org/queue/accepted/accepted/apache-perl_1.3.9-14.1-1.21.20000309-1_sparc.katie.
129 You assume that the filenames are relative to accepted/, might want
132 o <neuro> the orig was in NEW, the changes that caused it to be NEW
133 were pulled out in -2, and we end up with no orig in the archive
136 o SecurityAcceptedAutoBuild doesn't handle the case of foo_3.3woody1
137 with a new .orig.tar.gz followed by a foo_3.3potato1 with the same
138 .orig.tar.gz; jennifer sees it and copes, but the AA code doesn't
139 and can't really easily know so the potato AA dir is left with no
140 .orig.tar.gz copy. doh.
142 o orig.tar.gz in accepted not handled properly (?)
144 o amber doesn't include .orig.tar.gz but it should
146 o permissions (paranoia, group write, etc.) configurability and overhaul
148 o remember duplicate copyrights in lisaand skip them, per package
150 o <M>ove option for lisa byhand proecessing
152 o rene could do with overrides
154 o db_access.get_location_id should handle the lack of archive_id properly
156 o the whole versioncmp thing should be documented
158 o lisa doesn't do the right thing with -2 and -1 uploads, as you can
159 end up with the .orig.tar.gz not in the pool
161 o lisa exits if you check twice (aj)
163 o lisa doesn't trap signals from fernanda properly
165 o queued and/or perl on sparc stable sucks - reimplement it.
167 o aj's bin nmu changes
170 * priority >> optional
172 * build-depends wrong (via andrea)
175 * notification/stats to admin daily
176 o trap fernanda exiting
177 o distinguish binary only versus others (neuro)
179 o cache changes parsed from ordering (careful tho: would be caching
180 .changes from world writable incoming, not holding)
182 o katie doesn't recognise binonlyNMUs correctly in terms of telling
183 who their source is; source-must-exist does, but the info is not
186 o Fix BTS vs. katie sync issues by queueing(via BSMTP) BTS mail so
187 that it can be released on deman (e.g. ETRN to exim).
189 o maintainers file needs overrides
191 [ change override.maintainer to override.maintainer-from +
192 override.maintainer-to and have them reference the maintainers
193 table. Then fix charisma to use them and write some scripting
194 to handle the Santiago situation. ]
196 o Validate Depends (et al.) [it should match \(\s*(<<|<|<=|=|>=|>|>>)\s*<VERSIONREGEXP>\)]
198 o Clean up DONE; archive to tar file every 2 weeks, update tar tvzf INDEX file.
200 o testing-updates suite: if binary-only and version << version in
201 unstable and source-ver ~= source-ver in testing; then map
202 unstable -> testing-updates ?
204 o hooks or configurability for debian specific checks (e.g. check_urgency, auto-building support)
206 o morgue needs auto-cleaning (?)
208 o saffron: two modes, all included, seperate
209 o saffron: add non-US
210 o saffron: add ability to control components, architectures, archives, suites
211 o saffron: add key to expand header
213 ================================================================================
218 o change utils.copy to try rename() first
220 o [hard, long term] unchecked -> accepted should go into the db, not
221 a suite, but similar. this would allow katie to get even faster,
222 make madison more useful, decomplexify specialacceptedautobuild
223 and generally be more sane. may even be helpful to have e.g. new
224 in the DB, so that we avoid corner cases like the .orig.tar.gz
225 disappearing 'cos the package has been entirely removed but was
226 still on stayofexecution when it entered new.
228 o Logging [mostly done] (todo: rhona (hard), .. ?)
230 o jennifer: the tar extractor class doesn't need to be redone for each package
232 o reverse of source-must-exist; i.e. binary-for-source-must-not-exist
233 o REJECT reminders in shania.
234 o fernanda should check for conflicts and warn about them visavis priority [rmurray]
235 o store a list of removed/files versions; also compare against them.
236 [but be careful about scalability]
238 o fernanda: print_copyright should be a lot more intelligent
239 @ handle copyright.gz
240 @ handle copyright.ja and copyright
241 @ handle (detect at least) symlinks to another package's doc directory
242 @ handle and/or fall back on source files (?)
244 o To incorporate from utils:
247 o auto-purge out-of-date stuff from non-free/contrib so that testing and stuff works
248 o doogie's binary -> source index
249 o jt's web stuff, matt's changelog stuff (overlap)
251 o [Hard] Need to merge non-non-US and non-US DBs.
253 o experimental needs to auto clean (relative to unstable) [partial: rene warns about this]
255 o Do a checkpc(1)-a-like which sanitizes a config files.
256 o fix parse_changes()/build_file_list() to sanity check filenames
257 o saftey check and/or rename debs so they match what they should be
260 o Need to optimize all the queries by using EXAMINE and building some INDEXs.
261 [postgresql 7.2 will help here]
262 o Need to enclose all the setting SQL stuff in transactions (mostly done).
263 o Need to finish alyson (a way to sync katie.conf and the DB)
264 o Need the ability to rebuild all other tables from dists _or_ pools (in the event of disaster) (?)
265 o Make the --help and --version options do stuff for all scripts
267 o charisma can't handle whitespace-only lines (for the moment, this is feature)
269 o generic way of saying isabinary and isadsc. (?)
271 o s/distribution/suite/g
274 @ weekly postins to d-c (?)
275 @ backup of report (?)
276 @ backup of changes.tgz (?)
278 o --help doesn't work without /etc/katie/katie.conf (or similar) at
281 o rename andrea (clashes with existing andrea)...
285 o interrupting of stracing jennifer causes exceptions errors from apt_inst calls
286 o dependency checking (esp. stable) (partially done)
287 o override checks sucks; it needs to track changes made by the
288 maintainer and pass them onto ftpmaster instead of warning the
290 o need to do proper rfc822 escaping of from lines (as opposed to s/\.//g)
291 o Revisit linking of binary->source in install() in katie.
292 o Fix component handling in overrides (aj)
293 o Fix lack of entires in source overrides (aj)
294 o direport misreports things as section 'devel' (? we don't use direport)
295 o vrfy check of every Maintainer+Changed-By address; valid for 3 months.
296 o binary-all should be done on a per-source, per-architecture package
297 basis to avoid, e.g. the perl-modules problem.
298 o a source-missing-diff check: if the version has a - in it, and it
299 is sourceful, it needs orig and diff, e.g. if someone uploads
300 esound_0.2.22-6, and it is sourceful, and there is no diff ->
301 REJECT (version has a dash, therefore not debian native.)
302 o check linking of .tar.gz's to .dsc's.. see proftpd 1.2.1 as an example
303 o archive needs md5sum'ed regularly, but takes too long to do all
304 in one go; make progressive or weekly.
305 o katie/jenna/rhona/whatever needs to clear out .changes
306 files from p-u when removing stuff superseded by newer versions.
307 [but for now we have halle]
308 o test sig checking stuff in test/ (stupid thing is not modularized due to global abuse)
309 o when encountering suspicous things (e.g. file tainting) do something more drastic
313 o suite mapping and component mapping are parsed per changes file,
314 they should probably be stored in a dictionary created at startup.
315 o don't stat/md5sum files you have entries for in the DB, moron
316 boy (Katie.check_source_blah_blah)
317 o promote changes["changes"] to mandatory in katie.py(dump_vars)
318 after a month or so (or all .katie files contain in the queue
320 o melanie should behave better with -a and without -b; see
321 gcc-defaults removal for an example.
322 o Reject on misconfigured kernel-package uploads
323 o utils.extract_component_from_section: main/utils -> main/utils, main rather than utils, main
324 o Fix jennier to warn if run when not in incoming or p-u
325 o katie should validate multi-suite uploads; only possible valid one
327 o cron.daily* should change umask (aj sucks)
328 o Rene doesn't look at debian-installer but should.
329 o Rene needs to check for binary-less source packages.
330 o Rene could accept a suite argument (?)
331 o byhand stuff should send notification
332 o catherine should udpate db; move files, not the other way around [neuro]
333 o melanie should update the stable changelog [joey]
338 o drop rather dubious currval stuff (?)
339 o rationalize os.path.join() usage
340 o Rene also doesn't seem to warn about missing binary packages (??)
341 o logging: hostname + pid ?
342 o ANAIS should be done in katie (?)
343 o Add an 'add' ability to melanie (? separate prog maybe)
344 o Replicate old dinstall report stuff (? needed ?)
345 o Handle the case of 1:1.1 which would overwrite 1.1 (?)
346 o maybe drop -r/--regex in madison, make it the default and
347 implement -e/--exact (a la joey's "elmo")
348 o dsc files are not checked for existence/perms (only an issue if
349 they're in the .dsc, but not the .changes.. possible?)
353 o db_access' get_files needs to use exceptions not this None, > 0, < 0 return val BS (?)
354 o The untouchable flag doesn't stop new packages being added to ``untouchable'' suites
356 ================================================================================
361 o Fix stuff to look in sensible places for libs and config file in debian package (?)
363 ================================================================================
366 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
398 ================================================================================
403 | <mdz_> SirDibos: that sentence sounds like it wants to be a bug report when it grows up
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407 | From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
408 | Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1 Ext3 Ooops. Reboot needed.
409 | To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
410 | Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
411 | Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:27:20 -0700
413 | Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> wrote:
415 | > "File alteration monitor", from Debian.
419 | > $ apt-cache show fam
421 | I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided debian.
422 | Is there a tarball anywhere?
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426 | From: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
428 | In my experience, James has been very responsive, albeit not
429 | verbose, to reasonable questions/requests that don't start out saying
430 | "James is a bum - throw him out".
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434 | <eigood> Kamion: are you too busy to look at my generic
435 | include/exclude stuff for the bts yet?
436 | <Kamion> eigood: expect me to be busy for about the next week at this
438 | <eigood> my %field_match = (
439 | <eigood> 'subject' => \&contains_field_match,
440 | <eigood> 'severity' => \&exact_field_match,
441 | <eigood> that's how it works, basically
442 | <eigood> I'm a big fan of callbacks
444 | <eigood> Kamion: how do you feel about having
445 | per-bug/per-package/per-source notes support in the bts?
446 | <Kamion> eigood: as I said five minutes ago, I really don't have time
447 | to think about it right now, sorry
448 | <Kamion> here, maybe it would be clearer if I /part
449 | <-- Kamion (~cjwatson@host81-129-36-235.in-addr.btopenworld.com) has left #debian-devel (too busy. no, really.)
450 | <eigood> no need to be hostile
451 | <Joy> eigood: he told you he's too busy and you kept bugging him. take
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456 <mstone> bwahahaha. Dear "security@debian.org" Thank you for your
457 email about "[SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux
458 kernel memory" ...I need to filter out spam... To send email to
459 vhs@flexdesign.com please put "ducks" anywhere on your subject
460 line. ...Thanks, Bob...
461 <mstone> I'll be sure to do that...
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465 <drow> Hmm, that was a nice short bug report.
466 <drow> to submit@: "strdup(NULL) segfaults" to -done@: "Yes, go away"
468 <Kamion> how did he pass T&S? sheer bloody-mindedness?
470 <drow> Good attention to detail?
471 <drow> Masking of psychopathic tendencies?
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476 http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91696&cid=7890274
478 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
481 <Joy> i accidentally banned all mails to the bts that had 'ossi' in them
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486 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/12/24/>
488 Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
492 1) The most common chipset used in Pentium-II machines is the Intel 440BX. It is also relatively common in slower P-IIIs, and is approximately identical to the 440MX (a one-chip version aimed at laptops).
494 2) The 440BX has the interesting feature of only being able to address up to 128MBit density RAM. This is a relatively widely known issue.
496 3) Simple maths suggests that if you have a 128MB DIMM with 4 chips on it, they are likely to be 256MBit parts.
498 4) Marking said DIMMs as being suitable for Pentium-IIs is therefore really indescribably stupid, you wankwits. Please fuck off and die in a great big chemical fire before I get back there to beat you.
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510 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/12/>
512 Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
514 It's true that you learn something new every day. Yesterday I discovered that playdough is electrically conductive. I also discovered that RAM becomes unhappy if all of its pins are joined together with electrically conductive material.
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518 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/03/>
520 Monday, November 3rd, 2003
522 Hint to people attempting to sell things online:
524 DON'T PUT http://172.16.100.107/ IN YOUR URLS, YOU INCOMPETENT FUCKMONKEYS
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