Bug#785662: lintian: Should warn about included oui.txt or iab.txt, and recommend to use those from ieee-data instead
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Axel Beckert wrote:
>> python3-netaddr: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.idx
>> python3-netaddr: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.txt
>> python-netaddr: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.idx
>> python-netaddr: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.txt
>> ruby-packetfu: /usr/share/doc/ruby-packetfu/examples/oui.txt.gz
> [...]
>> Luciano (as well as Gürkan years earlier) seem to have filed bug reports
>> for embedded copies of oui.txt already against arpalert, arp-scan,
>> btscanner, ipv6toolkit (fixed in experimental, yay!), ntop-data,
>> ocsinventory-reports, but the python and ruby packages listed above have
>> no such bug report.
>
> Actually the two python packages don't need a bug report. Those
> oui.txt files listed above are actually symlinks to ieee-data's
> oui.txt. Great!
>
> So I need to amend my plan as follows:
>
>> I imagine a check which warns if
>>
>> * a binary or source package contains a file whose name matches
>> /\b(oui|iab).(txt|idx|db)\b/ (This should also match compressed
>> variants)
>
> ... and is not a symlink. :-)
>
> I should probably also drop the .idx suffix.
I will not check in script for this due to speed reason.
However https://codesearch.debian.net/results/ieee.*oui\.txt/page_0
give you nice result, at least:
https://sources.debian.net/src/wireshark/1.10.8-1/tools/make-manuf/?hl=43#L43
https://sources.debian.net/src/gammu/1.33.0-3/gammu-detect/bluez.c/?hl=37#L37
https://sources.debian.net/src/ettercap/1:0.8.2-2/misc/get-mac.sh/?hl=1#L1
https://sources.debian.net/src/lshw/02.17-1.1/src/mac-prefixes/?hl=2#L2
https://sources.debian.net/src/arp-scan/1.8.1-2/get-oui/?hl=36#L36
https://sources.debian.net/src/netdiscover/0.3beta7~pre-2/update-oui-database.sh/?hl=28#L28
https://sources.debian.net/src/netsniff-ng/0.5.9-1/oui-update.py/?hl=22#L22
https://sources.debian.net/src/libnet-mac-vendor-perl/1.22-1/lib/Net/MAC/Vendor.pm/?hl=309#L309
https://sources.debian.net/src/gopacket/1.1.10-1/macs/gen.go/?hl=47#L47
https://sources.debian.net/src/scli/0.4.0-5/scli/Makefile.am/?hl=54#L54
https://sources.debian.net/src/libnet-mac-vendor-perl/1.22-1/lib/Net/MAC/Vendor.pm/?hl=323#L323
https://sources.debian.net/src/ibid/0.1.1%2Bdfsg-4/ibid/plugins/sysadmin.py/?hl=210#L210
https://sources.debian.net/src/macchanger/1.7.0-5.3/tools/IEEE_OUI.py/?hl=30#L30
I have implemented a few check nevertheless in lintian checking oui
file and some well known and old ethernet manufacturer. It will catch
a few file
Bastien
> Regards, Axel
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