Welcome to Devuan Weekly News VII. Do not try to find issues V and VI, as I was on holidays and setting up a collaborative system for upcoming issues.
On this fifth issue, corresponding to 7th week of our project (and thus named Issue VII), I want to give a warm welcome the first collaborator of DWN: hellekin. This new format is thanks to him (in fact, this whole issue is his work). Please comment. Noel er Envite DWN coordinator *** Package Submission Diffing vs. Cloning upstream packages. Franco Lanza proposes to maintain lightweight repositories in order to integrate changes more easily against original packages. Enrico Weigelt argues to mirror upstream packages as downstream branches (not forks) which he says is what the usual tarball+patches scheme is doing anyway. *** Release Roadmap [[https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150104.060312.cd41e777.en.html] [Release Roadmap]] highlights: Devuan "alpha" Jessie will not include loginkit nor eudev by default, as they're not ready yet. Systemd and libsystemd0 dependencies will be absent as well, and xfce4 will be the default desktop. GNOME3 will be installable but dependent on systemd-shim. The repository will be populated by January 23, and the first ISO installer is scheduled for January 31. Devuan package maintainer candidates should send an email to Franco Lanza <next...@devuan.org> with Subject: "devuan package maintainer" and specify which package they want to maintain, a little description of their skills, and their account name on git.devuan.org. *** vdev update and design document https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150104.141649.71081c77.en.html *** Devuan Security Wishlist Godefridus Daalmans wants Devuan to add default support and documentation for Secure Attention Key (SAK). Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-K can be used to emulate SAK, killing all processes on the current virtual console (including X and svgalib programs). *** Wheezy https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150105.185839.e3e1e9ec.en.html t.j.duchene warns that Debian Wheezy is now installing systemd-logind0 as Debian has been backporting packages from Jessie. He denounced QA pitfalls and the primacy of packager convenience over user interest. He wonders whether the introduction of dependencies on systemd in Wheezy is a matter of easing upgrade to Jessie, or negligence on the part of package maintainers who see systemd as a solution to patching existing code. Hendrik Boom develops the thread into the genealogy of systemd in from Squeeze on. The introduction route of systemd seems to come from backports, dbus, and X11. Oliver Schwank got Debian packagers to explain their logic in introducing dependencies on libsystemd0: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773924 ("systemd-free" means "not using systemd as init", nop code is ok) Aldemir Akpinar jokingly suggests to rename systemd meta package in Devuan to systemd-innocence. *** Jessie without systemd https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150108.222844.f83bac6d.en.html The TRIOS team introduces their semi-rolling Debian Jessie based OS that aims to work without Systemd. It still uses udev at this point. It looks very similar to Devuan, using OpenRC as the default init system and XFCE4 as the desktop. It targets ordinary users. Martinx - ジェームズ introduces them to eudev so that they can remove the last systemd-udev dependency on the systemd food chain. *** Devuan Weekly News The weekly news dispatch is not disappearing. We're trying to make it a team's work, so if you're interested, please drop by #devuan-news and brainstorm along.
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