Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Dolding writes: > The one property about systemd unit files that is extremely good is > there are no multi line commands. Every command is a single line. Yes, that's exactly what I think is obnoxious. I prefer the upstart syntax, which avoids the temptation to write unreadable one-line

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Peter Dolding
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) > In general, upstart's integration with arbitrary actions in shell > fragments is considerably better than systemd's, at least based on the > documentation I've read. upstart feels like it provides more useful > flexibility This is in fact a extremely bad idea how

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:20:12AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:41:53AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I'm surprised by this comment. Very little policy is actually encoded in > > upstart's C code; in fact, the only policy I can think of offhand that is is > > some ba

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-10-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Konstantinos Margaritis writes ("Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee"): > So I think this question should really be added as a con to systemd. The way that the Debate wiki system works is that the proponents of any particular answer are in charge of the page on that an

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-10-31 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, I'd just like to mentioned just a small(big? you decide) issue that I haven't seen mentioned yet from anyone. Against systemd. systemd has explicitly mentioned its Linux-only support. Sure, that affects kFreeBSD/Hurd now. But changing an init system should be done looking ahead *at least

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > How long do people think finalising this is going to take ? There are > some potential problems with setting a hard deadline in advance but > we're hoping to deal with this matter fairly soon now. I propose the following approach: 1. Set a date for the first drafts of the

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Ian Jackson
David Härdeman writes ("Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian."): > I'm not a DD, just a random contributor, and I haven't been actively > involved in the init system debate at all, nor do I have any stake in > it, though I've followed it with some interest. >

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-10-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee"): > Steve Langasek writes[1]: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd ... > So I would appreciate it if you (and by "you" I mean each side of the > argument) would make sure that your page represe

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Theodore Ts'o: > The most basic is the idea that whether you can control (via shell > scrpit fragments) whether or not a service should start at all, and > what options or environments should be enabled by pasing some file. Curiously, a lot of system administrators do not do this correctly usin

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:41:53AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I'm surprised by this comment. Very little policy is actually encoded in > upstart's C code; in fact, the only policy I can think of offhand that is is > some basic stuff around filesystems, which, aside from some must-have kernel >

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [131031 02:19]: > Theodore Ts'o writes: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Well, I've said this before, but I think it's worth reiterating. > >> Either upstart or systemd configurations are *radically better* than > >> init sc

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread David Härdeman
Dear Committee members, I'm not a DD, just a random contributor, and I haven't been actively involved in the init system debate at all, nor do I have any stake in it, though I've followed it with some interest. Now that the question has been referred to the Technical Committee (which seems r

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 31-10-13 02:50, Theodore Ts'o schreef: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:18:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I suspect you and I have a root disagreement over the utility of exposing >> some of those degrees of freedom to every init script author, but if you >> have some more specific examples of p

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 08:41:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Well, I've said this before, but I think it's worth reiterating. Either > > upstart or systemd configurations are *radically better* than init scripts > > on basically