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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-07-25 22:44:20 UTC
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Require Python 2.7.

This is in preparation for the eventual move to Python 3, which will
happen as soon as all Python modules required by Mandos are available.
The mandos-ctl and mandos-monitor programs are already portable
between Python 2.6 and Python 3 without changes; this change will
bring the requirement up to Python 2.7.

* INSTALL (Prerequisites/Libraries/Mandos Server): Document
                                                   requirement of
                                                   Python 2.7; remove
                                                   Python-argparse
                                                   which is in the
                                                   Python 2.7 standard
                                                   library.
* debian/control (Source: mandos/Build-Depends-Indep): Depend on
                                                       exactly the
                                                       python2.7
                                                       package and all
                                                       the Python 2.7
                                                       versions of the
                                                       python modules.
  (Package: mandos/Depends): - '' - but still depend on python (<=2.7)
                            and the generic versions of the Python
                            modules; this is for mandos-ctl and
                            mandos-monitor, both of which are
                            compatible with Python 3, and use
                            #!/usr/bin/python.
* mandos: Use #!/usr/bin/python2.7 instead of #!/usr/bin/python.

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-*- org -*-
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* GIT
 
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** General: [[https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows][Git Workflows]], [[http://gitimmersion.com/][Git Immersion]], [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036628][Simple git workflow is simple]]
 
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** Intro: [[http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html#combine][Using Git for Debian Packaging]]
 
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** Use: [[https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/projects/git-buildpackage/][git-buildpackage]]
 
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** Migration
 
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   tailor?
 
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   Using bzr-fastimport: [[http://www.fusonic.net/en/blog/2013/03/26/migrating-from-bazaar-to-git/][Migrating from Bazaar to Git]]
 
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** Unresolved: [[http://jameswestby.net/bzr/builddeb/user_manual/split.html][bzr builddeb split mode]]
 
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   Maybe: [[http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.UPSTREAM.GIT.NOTARBALL][git-buildpackage - No upstream tarballs]]
 
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   [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GitForEmacsDevs][Git For Emacs Devs]]
 
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* [[http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110530221728][OpenBSD]]
 
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* Testing
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** python-nemu
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** [[https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit-apps.html][Writing polkit applications]]
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** TODO A ~--server~ option which only adds to the server list.
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   (Unlike ~--connect~, which implicitly disables ZeroConf.)
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** TODO [#B] Use [[man:capabilities][capabilities]] instead of [[info:libc#Setting%20User%20ID][seteuid()]].
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   [[https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2522]]
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** TODO [#B] Use ~getaddrinfo(hints=AI_NUMERICHOST)~ instead of ~inet_pton()~
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** TODO [#C] Make ~start_mandos_communication()~ take ~struct server~.
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** TODO [#C] ~--interfaces=regex,eth*,noregex~ [[man:bridge-utils-interfaces][bridge-utils-interfaces(5)]]
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with ~EX_TEMPFAIL~
 
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** TODO [#B] Use capabilities instead of seteuid().
 
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** TODO [#B] Use getaddrinfo(hints=AI_NUMERICHOST) instead of inet_pton()
 
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** TODO [#C] Make start_mandos_communication() take "struct server".
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* splashy
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** TODO [#B] use [[info:libc#Scanning%20Directory%20Content][scandir(3)]] instead of [[info:libc#Reading/Closing%20Directory][readdir(3)]]
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with ~EX_TEMPFAIL~
 
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** TODO [#B] use [[info:libc#Scanning%20Directory%20Content][scandir(3)]] instead of [[info:libc#Reading/Closing%20Directory][readdir(3)]]
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with ~EX_TEMPFAIL~
 
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** TODO [#A] Make it work again
 
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** TODO [#B] use scandir(3) instead of readdir(3)
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* password-prompt
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** TODO [#B] lock stdin (with [[info:libc#File%20Locks][flock()]]?)
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with ~EX_TEMPFAIL~
 
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** TODO [#A] Detect partial writes to stdout and exit with ~EX_TEMPFAIL~
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*** Hook up stderr of plugins, buffer them, and prepend "Mandos Plugin [plugin name]"
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** TODO [#C] use same file name rules as [[man:run-parts][run-parts(8)]]
 
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** TODO [#A] Restart plugins which exit with ~EX_TEMPFAIL~
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** TODO [#B] By-client countdown on number of secrets given
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** TODO [#B] Limit ~approval_delay~ to max GnuTLS/TLS timeout value
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** TODO Generate ~Client.runtime_expansions~ from client options + extra
 
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** TODO Support [[http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#standard-interfaces-objectmanager][org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager]] interface on server object :2:
 
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#+STARTUP: showall
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#+FILETAGS: :mandos: