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 o need to decide on whether we're tying for most errors at once.. if
31 so (probably) then make sure code doesn't assume variables exist and
32 either way do something about checking error code of check_dsc and
33 later functions so we skip later checks if they're bailing.
35 o the .katie stuff is fundamentally braindamaged, it's not versioned
36 so there's no way to change the format, yay me. need to fix.
37 probably by putting a version var as the first thing and checking
38 that.. auto-upgrade at least from original format would be good.
39 might also be a good idea to put everything in one big dict after
42 o reject sparc64 binaries in a non '*64*' package.
44 o katie.py(source_exists): a) we take arguments as parameters that
45 we could figure out for ourselves (we're part of the Katie class
46 after all), b) we have this 3rd argument which defaults to "any"
47 but could in fact be dropped since no one uses it like that.
49 o jennifer: doesn't handle bin-only NMUs of stuff still in NEW,
50 BYHAND or ACCEPTED (but not the pool) - not a big deal, upload can
51 be retried once the source is in the archive, but still.
53 o security global mail overrides should special case buildd stuff so
54 that buildds get ACCEPTED mails (or maybe amber (?)), that way
55 upload-security doesn't grow boundlessly.
57 o amber should upload sourceful packages first, otherwise with big
58 packages (e.g. X) and esp. when source is !i386, half the arches
59 can be uploaded without source, get copied into queue/unaccepted
60 and promptly rejected.
62 o rene's NVIU check doesn't catch cases where source package changed
63 name, should check binaries too. [debian-devel@l.d.o, 2004-02-03]
65 o cnf[melanie::logfile] is misnamed...
67 <aj> i'd be kinda inclined to go with insisting the .changes file take
68 the form ---- BEGIN PGP MESSAGE --- <non -- BEGIN/END lines> --
69 BEGIN PGP SIG -- END PGP MESSAGE -- with no lines before or after,
70 and rejecting .changes that didn't match that
72 o rene should check for source packages not building any binaries
74 o heidi should have a diff mode that accepts diff output!
76 o halle doesn't deal with melanie'd packages, partial replacements
79 o lauren, the tramp, blindly deletes with no check that the delete
80 failed which it might well given we only look for package/version,
81 not package/version _in p-u_. duh.
83 o melanie should remove obsolete changes when removing from p-u, or
84 at least warn. or halle should handle it.
86 o need a testsuite _badly_
88 o lisa should have an Bitch-Then-Accept option
90 o jennifer crashes if run as a user in -n mode when orig.tar.gz is
93 <elmo_home> [<random>maybe I should reject debian packages with a non-Debian origin or bugs field</>]
94 <Kamion> [<random>agreed; dunno what origin does but non-Debian bugs fields would be bad]
96 o rhona should make use of select..except select, temporary tables
97 etc. rather than looping and calling SQL every time so we can do
98 suite removal sanely (see potato-removal document)
100 o melanie will happily include packages in the Cc list that aren't
103 o melanie doesn't remove udebs when removing the source they build from
105 o check_dsc_against_db's "delete an entry from files while you're
106 not looking" habit is Evil and Bad.
108 o lisa allows you to edit the section and change the component, but
111 o melanie needs to, when not sending bug close mails, promote Cc: to
112 To: and send the mail anyways.
114 o the lockfile (Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress) should probably be in a conf file
116 o madison should cross-check the b.source field and if it's not null
117 and s.name linked from it != the source given in
118 -S/--source-and-binary ignore.
120 o lauren sucks; she should a) only spam d-i for sourceful
121 rejections, b) sort stuff so she rejects sourceful stuff first. the
122 non-sourceful should probably get a form mail, c) automate the
123 non-sourceful stuff (see b).
125 o jennifer should do q-d stuff for faster AA [ryan]
127 o split the morgue into source and binary so binaries can be purged first!
129 o per-architecture priorities for things like different arch'es
130 gcc's, silly BSD libftw, palo, etc.
132 o use postgres 7.2's built-in stat features to figure out how indices are used etc.
134 o neve shouldn't be using location, she should run down suites instead
136 o halle needs to know about udebs
138 o by default hamstring katie's mail sending so that she won't send
139 anything until someone edits a script; she's been used far too
140 much to send spam atm :(
142 o $ftpdir/indices isn't created by rose because it's not in katie.conf
144 o sanity check depends/recommends/suggests too? in fact for any
147 [minor] kelly's copychanges, copykatie handling sucks, the per-suite
148 thing is static for all packages, so work out in advance dummy.
150 [madison] # filenames ?
151 [madison] # maintainer, component, install date (source only?), fingerprint?
153 o UrgencyLog stuff should minimize it's bombing out(?)
154 o Log stuff should open the log file
156 o helena should footnote the actual notes, and also * the versions
157 with notes so we can see new versions since being noted...
159 o helena should have alternative sorting options, including reverse
160 and without or without differentiaion.
162 o julia should sync debadmin and ftpmaster (?)
164 o <drow> Can't read file.:
165 /org/security.debian.org/queue/accepted/accepted/apache-perl_1.3.9-14.1-1.21.20000309-1_sparc.katie.
166 You assume that the filenames are relative to accepted/, might want
169 o <neuro> the orig was in NEW, the changes that caused it to be NEW
170 were pulled out in -2, and we end up with no orig in the archive
173 o SecurityAcceptedAutoBuild doesn't handle the case of foo_3.3woody1
174 with a new .orig.tar.gz followed by a foo_3.3potato1 with the same
175 .orig.tar.gz; jennifer sees it and copes, but the AA code doesn't
176 and can't really easily know so the potato AA dir is left with no
177 .orig.tar.gz copy. doh.
179 o orig.tar.gz in accepted not handled properly (?)
181 o amber doesn't include .orig.tar.gz but it should
183 o permissions (paranoia, group write, etc.) configurability and overhaul
185 o remember duplicate copyrights in lisaand skip them, per package
187 o <M>ove option for lisa byhand proecessing
189 o rene could do with overrides
191 o db_access.get_location_id should handle the lack of archive_id properly
193 o the whole versioncmp thing should be documented
195 o lisa doesn't do the right thing with -2 and -1 uploads, as you can
196 end up with the .orig.tar.gz not in the pool
198 o lisa exits if you check twice (aj)
200 o lisa doesn't trap signals from fernanda properly
202 o queued and/or perl on sparc stable sucks - reimplement it.
204 o aj's bin nmu changes
207 * priority >> optional
209 * build-depends wrong (via andrea)
212 * notification/stats to admin daily
213 o trap fernanda exiting
214 o distinguish binary only versus others (neuro)
216 o cache changes parsed from ordering (careful tho: would be caching
217 .changes from world writable incoming, not holding)
219 o katie doesn't recognise binonlyNMUs correctly in terms of telling
220 who their source is; source-must-exist does, but the info is not
223 o Fix BTS vs. katie sync issues by queueing(via BSMTP) BTS mail so
224 that it can be released on deman (e.g. ETRN to exim).
226 o maintainers file needs overrides
228 [ change override.maintainer to override.maintainer-from +
229 override.maintainer-to and have them reference the maintainers
230 table. Then fix charisma to use them and write some scripting
231 to handle the Santiago situation. ]
233 o Validate Depends (et al.) [it should match \(\s*(<<|<|<=|=|>=|>|>>)\s*<VERSIONREGEXP>\)]
235 o Clean up DONE; archive to tar file every 2 weeks, update tar tvzf INDEX file.
237 o testing-updates suite: if binary-only and version << version in
238 unstable and source-ver ~= source-ver in testing; then map
239 unstable -> testing-updates ?
241 o hooks or configurability for debian specific checks (e.g. check_urgency, auto-building support)
243 o morgue needs auto-cleaning (?)
245 o saffron: two modes, all included, seperate
246 o saffron: add non-US
247 o saffron: add ability to control components, architectures, archives, suites
248 o saffron: add key to expand header
250 ================================================================================
255 o change utils.copy to try rename() first
257 o [hard, long term] unchecked -> accepted should go into the db, not
258 a suite, but similar. this would allow katie to get even faster,
259 make madison more useful, decomplexify specialacceptedautobuild
260 and generally be more sane. may even be helpful to have e.g. new
261 in the DB, so that we avoid corner cases like the .orig.tar.gz
262 disappearing 'cos the package has been entirely removed but was
263 still on stayofexecution when it entered new.
265 o Logging [mostly done] (todo: rhona (hard), .. ?)
267 o jennifer: the tar extractor class doesn't need to be redone for each package
269 o reverse of source-must-exist; i.e. binary-for-source-must-not-exist
270 o REJECT reminders in shania.
271 o fernanda should check for conflicts and warn about them visavis priority [rmurray]
272 o store a list of removed/files versions; also compare against them.
273 [but be careful about scalability]
275 o fernanda: print_copyright should be a lot more intelligent
276 @ handle copyright.gz
277 @ handle copyright.ja and copyright
278 @ handle (detect at least) symlinks to another package's doc directory
279 @ handle and/or fall back on source files (?)
281 o To incorporate from utils:
284 o auto-purge out-of-date stuff from non-free/contrib so that testing and stuff works
285 o doogie's binary -> source index
286 o jt's web stuff, matt's changelog stuff (overlap)
288 o [Hard] Need to merge non-non-US and non-US DBs.
290 o experimental needs to auto clean (relative to unstable) [partial: rene warns about this]
292 o Do a checkpc(1)-a-like which sanitizes a config files.
293 o fix parse_changes()/build_file_list() to sanity check filenames
294 o saftey check and/or rename debs so they match what they should be
297 o Need to optimize all the queries by using EXAMINE and building some INDEXs.
298 [postgresql 7.2 will help here]
299 o Need to enclose all the setting SQL stuff in transactions (mostly done).
300 o Need to finish alyson (a way to sync katie.conf and the DB)
301 o Need the ability to rebuild all other tables from dists _or_ pools (in the event of disaster) (?)
302 o Make the --help and --version options do stuff for all scripts
304 o charisma can't handle whitespace-only lines (for the moment, this is feature)
306 o generic way of saying isabinary and isadsc. (?)
308 o s/distribution/suite/g
311 @ weekly postins to d-c (?)
312 @ backup of report (?)
313 @ backup of changes.tgz (?)
315 o --help doesn't work without /etc/katie/katie.conf (or similar) at
318 o rename andrea (clashes with existing andrea)...
322 o interrupting of stracing jennifer causes exceptions errors from apt_inst calls
323 o dependency checking (esp. stable) (partially done)
324 o override checks sucks; it needs to track changes made by the
325 maintainer and pass them onto ftpmaster instead of warning the
327 o need to do proper rfc822 escaping of from lines (as opposed to s/\.//g)
328 o Revisit linking of binary->source in install() in katie.
329 o Fix component handling in overrides (aj)
330 o Fix lack of entires in source overrides (aj)
331 o direport misreports things as section 'devel' (? we don't use direport)
332 o vrfy check of every Maintainer+Changed-By address; valid for 3 months.
333 o binary-all should be done on a per-source, per-architecture package
334 basis to avoid, e.g. the perl-modules problem.
335 o a source-missing-diff check: if the version has a - in it, and it
336 is sourceful, it needs orig and diff, e.g. if someone uploads
337 esound_0.2.22-6, and it is sourceful, and there is no diff ->
338 REJECT (version has a dash, therefore not debian native.)
339 o check linking of .tar.gz's to .dsc's.. see proftpd 1.2.1 as an example
340 o archive needs md5sum'ed regularly, but takes too long to do all
341 in one go; make progressive or weekly.
342 o katie/jenna/rhona/whatever needs to clear out .changes
343 files from p-u when removing stuff superseded by newer versions.
344 [but for now we have halle]
345 o test sig checking stuff in test/ (stupid thing is not modularized due to global abuse)
346 o when encountering suspicous things (e.g. file tainting) do something more drastic
350 o suite mapping and component mapping are parsed per changes file,
351 they should probably be stored in a dictionary created at startup.
352 o don't stat/md5sum files you have entries for in the DB, moron
353 boy (Katie.check_source_blah_blah)
354 o promote changes["changes"] to mandatory in katie.py(dump_vars)
355 after a month or so (or all .katie files contain in the queue
357 o melanie should behave better with -a and without -b; see
358 gcc-defaults removal for an example.
359 o Reject on misconfigured kernel-package uploads
360 o utils.extract_component_from_section: main/utils -> main/utils, main rather than utils, main
361 o Fix jennier to warn if run when not in incoming or p-u
362 o katie should validate multi-suite uploads; only possible valid one
364 o cron.daily* should change umask (aj sucks)
365 o Rene doesn't look at debian-installer but should.
366 o Rene needs to check for binary-less source packages.
367 o Rene could accept a suite argument (?)
368 o byhand stuff should send notification
369 o catherine should udpate db; move files, not the other way around [neuro]
370 o melanie should update the stable changelog [joey]
375 o drop rather dubious currval stuff (?)
376 o rationalize os.path.join() usage
377 o Rene also doesn't seem to warn about missing binary packages (??)
378 o logging: hostname + pid ?
379 o ANAIS should be done in katie (?)
380 o Add an 'add' ability to melanie (? separate prog maybe)
381 o Replicate old dinstall report stuff (? needed ?)
382 o Handle the case of 1:1.1 which would overwrite 1.1 (?)
383 o maybe drop -r/--regex in madison, make it the default and
384 implement -e/--exact (a la joey's "elmo")
385 o dsc files are not checked for existence/perms (only an issue if
386 they're in the .dsc, but not the .changes.. possible?)
390 o db_access' get_files needs to use exceptions not this None, > 0, < 0 return val BS (?)
391 o The untouchable flag doesn't stop new packages being added to ``untouchable'' suites
393 ================================================================================
398 o Fix stuff to look in sensible places for libs and config file in debian package (?)
400 ================================================================================
403 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
435 ================================================================================
440 | <mdz_> SirDibos: that sentence sounds like it wants to be a bug report when it grows up
442 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
444 | From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
445 | Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1 Ext3 Ooops. Reboot needed.
446 | To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
447 | Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
448 | Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:27:20 -0700
450 | Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> wrote:
452 | > "File alteration monitor", from Debian.
456 | > $ apt-cache show fam
458 | I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided debian.
459 | Is there a tarball anywhere?
461 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
463 | From: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
465 | In my experience, James has been very responsive, albeit not
466 | verbose, to reasonable questions/requests that don't start out saying
467 | "James is a bum - throw him out".
469 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
471 | <eigood> Kamion: are you too busy to look at my generic
472 | include/exclude stuff for the bts yet?
473 | <Kamion> eigood: expect me to be busy for about the next week at this
475 | <eigood> my %field_match = (
476 | <eigood> 'subject' => \&contains_field_match,
477 | <eigood> 'severity' => \&exact_field_match,
478 | <eigood> that's how it works, basically
479 | <eigood> I'm a big fan of callbacks
481 | <eigood> Kamion: how do you feel about having
482 | per-bug/per-package/per-source notes support in the bts?
483 | <Kamion> eigood: as I said five minutes ago, I really don't have time
484 | to think about it right now, sorry
485 | <Kamion> here, maybe it would be clearer if I /part
486 | <-- Kamion (~cjwatson@host81-129-36-235.in-addr.btopenworld.com) has left #debian-devel (too busy. no, really.)
487 | <eigood> no need to be hostile
488 | <Joy> eigood: he told you he's too busy and you kept bugging him. take
491 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
493 <mstone> bwahahaha. Dear "security@debian.org" Thank you for your
494 email about "[SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux
495 kernel memory" ...I need to filter out spam... To send email to
496 vhs@flexdesign.com please put "ducks" anywhere on your subject
497 line. ...Thanks, Bob...
498 <mstone> I'll be sure to do that...
500 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
502 <drow> Hmm, that was a nice short bug report.
503 <drow> to submit@: "strdup(NULL) segfaults" to -done@: "Yes, go away"
505 <Kamion> how did he pass T&S? sheer bloody-mindedness?
507 <drow> Good attention to detail?
508 <drow> Masking of psychopathic tendencies?
511 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
513 <DanielS> the people love me
516 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
518 test.c:5: `long long long' is too long for GCC
520 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
522 http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91696&cid=7890274
524 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
527 <Joy> i accidentally banned all mails to the bts that had 'ossi' in them
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532 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/12/24/>
534 Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
538 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).
540 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.
542 3) Simple maths suggests that if you have a 128MB DIMM with 4 chips on it, they are likely to be 256MBit parts.
544 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.
554 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
556 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/12/>
558 Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
560 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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564 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/03/>
566 Monday, November 3rd, 2003
568 Hint to people attempting to sell things online:
570 DON'T PUT http://172.16.100.107/ IN YOUR URLS, YOU INCOMPETENT FUCKMONKEYS
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574 | priviledged positions? What privilege? The honour of working harder
575 | than most people for absolutely no recognition?
577 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> in <87lln8aqfm.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>
579 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
581 <elmo_h> you could just r00t klecker through [...] and do it yourself
583 <mdz> I think there's a bit in the DMUP about that
585 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
587 <Yoe> well, thing is, he doesn't seem to understand you usually don't
588 have the time to give everyone status updates when a fly moves a
591 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
595 The cops arrest YOU for not showing papers. Wait, I didn't have to
596 reverse it this time, what's going on?
598 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=97501&cid=8334726
600 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
602 <infinity> <shrug>... Messaging IRCops isn't the end of the world,
603 unless its "/msg ircop I fucked your wife."
605 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
607 <aj> ooo, elmo has "special powers"
608 <neuro> ooo, does he have lasers that shoot out of his eyes?
610 <aj> maybe he can turn invisible? that'd sure help with improved transparency!
612 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
614 | From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
615 | Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compile kernel with GCC-3.5 and without regparm
616 | To: "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net>
617 | Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
618 | Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:59:28 -0800
619 | X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu)
621 | "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net> wrote:
623 | > I tried to build the kernel with my CVS GCC-3.5 compiler today, and had
624 | > all sorts of failures about prototypes not matching.
626 | -mm is where the gcc-3.5 action is. There seems to be a bit of an arms
627 | race going on wherein the gcc developers are trying to break the kernel
628 | build faster than I and others can fix it.
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632 (Note that the above is a gross oversimplification, and ignores issues
633 including but not necessarily limited to subarchitectures, and quality
634 of hardware coverage within certian architectures. It contains forward
635 looking statements, and may cause cancer in lab animals.)
637 Joey Hess in <20040317065216.GA29816@kitenet.net>
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641 <jdub> now there's a thought
642 <jdub> DD trading cards
643 <mdz> official joeyh action figure, with rapid-fire upload action
644 <jdub> lamont with pump-action NMU flame-thrower!
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