Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 11:45pm +01, Luca Boccassi wrote: > It's just a bunch of emails. I have no idea where that is coming from, > because it's certainly not the intention. Your guess about languages > is probably accurate. Your use of English suggests to me you have native or near-native

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 05:42pm +02, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I kindly ask you to stop posting to this bug and mailing list for at > least 24h from now. Multiple participants have asked you to improve the > way you interact. I am not seeing such improvement and remind you of the > Debian Code

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 20:53, Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi, > > I am in favor of your request. > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 16:43, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > I kindly ask you to stop posting to this bug and mailing list for at > > > least

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 17:55:23 +0200 Wouter Verhelst wrote: - Gioele's message is about reimplementing lsb_release in terms of os-release. Not really. lsb_release has already been reimplemented purely in terms of os-release since bookworm. Even the older Python version used os-release as the

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I am in favor of your request. On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 16:43, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > I kindly ask you to stop posting to this bug and mailing list for at > > least 24h from now. Multiple participants have asked you to improve t

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 16:55, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 03:16:49PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 15:00, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > The question is: > > > > > > what is, exactly, the problem that the os-release specification is > > > supposed t

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 16:43, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > I kindly ask you to stop posting to this bug and mailing list for at > least 24h from now. Multiple participants have asked you to improve the > way you interact. I am not seeing such improvement and remind you of the > Debian Code

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 03:16:49PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 15:00, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The question is: > > > > what is, exactly, the problem that the os-release specification is > > supposed to solve? And how does unstable and testing being > > undistinguis

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, I kindly ask you to stop posting to this bug and mailing list for at least 24h from now. Multiple participants have asked you to improve the way you interact. I am not seeing such improvement and remind you of the Debian Code of Conduct available at https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct.

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/08/2024 13:33, Sean Whitton wrote: = BEGIN BALLOT The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. We do not think there is a clear proposal on the table for us to assess, and we do not think it

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 15:00, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:11:05AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 09:03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 07:44:29PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > That would make it contradictory with itself

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:11:05AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 09:03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 07:44:29PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > That would make it contradictory with itself and everything else that > > > uses it, so it's not a change th

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 01:53pm +01, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Seriously? In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1077764#368 > you say that you could rule on the general statement rather than a > specific implementation, then I answer "I'd prefer that if it was > possible", and th

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 13:36, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hello, > > I call for votes on the following: > > = > BEGIN BALLOT > > The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of > base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. > > We do not think there is a clea

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 08:33:39PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I call for votes on the following: > > = > BEGIN BALLOT > > The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of > base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. > > We do not think t

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
[resending signed] On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 08:33pm +08, Sean Whitton wrote: > = > BEGIN BALLOT > > The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of > base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. > > We do not think there is a clear proposal on the table fo

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 08:33pm +08, Sean Whitton wrote: > = > BEGIN BALLOT > > The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of > base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. > > We do not think there is a clear proposal on the table for us to assess, > an

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I call for votes on the following: = BEGIN BALLOT The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. We do not think there is a clear proposal on the table for us to assess, and we do not think it is ap

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:40, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > On 06/08/2024 11:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote: > >> > >>> This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 06/08/2024 11:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon wrote: Hi, On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote: This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial technical problem with a hard s

Re: Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:37, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > that matters. This is not a hard technical problem with no known > > solution that we are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial > > technical problem wit

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:26, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > On 06/08/2024 11:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon > > wrote: > > >> The policy question of "should testing and unstable be > >> differentiated by os-release" isn't straightforward, and there > >> isn't

Re: Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > that matters. This is not a hard technical problem with no known > solution that we are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial > technical problem with a hard social conflict at its core. What we are That's actual

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 06/08/2024 11:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon wrote: The policy question of "should testing and unstable be differentiated by os-release" isn't straightforward, and there isn't consensus that the answer should be "yes", as you would like it to be. De

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Hi, > > On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we > > are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial technical > > problem with a hard social conflict at its core.

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote: This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial technical problem with a hard social conflict at its core. What we are really blocked on is that the current owner of os-release

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 04:12, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hello Gioele, > > On Mon 05 Aug 2024 at 08:34am +02, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > > Couldn't the CTTE just rule on the question: > > > > * should Debian provide a way to distinguish between the two > > similar-but-not-identical, rolling, ephemeral

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 09:03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 07:44:29PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 at 19:08, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 04:15:36PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 21:29, Helmut Gro

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 07:44:29PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 at 19:08, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 04:15:36PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 21:29, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > > > 2) Testing and unstable can continue to rem