Bug#727708: gdm3 is still gravely buggy even in Linux!

2014-01-19 Thread Svante Signell
... > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 07:23:17PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >... > > I also have to insist that GNOME 3.10+ *needs* a working logind even for > > basic functionality, > >... > > Can you elaborate on where exactly upstream GNOME 3.10 has a hard > dependency on logind, and no alternat

Bug#727708: gdm3 is still gravely buggy even in Linux!

2014-01-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:44 +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 19/01/14 19:37, Svante Signell wrote: > > I tried to reopen bug #727708 but failed > > Was that a typo? That's the bug number of the Debian tech-ctte bug. Yes, bug number is 724731, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#727708: openrc: Updated patches making openrc work properly on Debian GNU/Hurd

2014-01-25 Thread Svante Signell
files for GNU Hurd Author: Thomas Goirand , Svante Signell Forwarded: no Last-Update: 2014-01-06 Index: openrc-0.12.4+20131230/etc/rc.conf.GNU === --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 + +++ openrc-0.12.4+20131230/etc/r

Bug#727708: Cut-and paste typo

2014-01-30 Thread Svante Signell
I think you made a c-p typo, see below: > That will leave us voting on (most likely): >Dsystemd default in jessie, say nothing about multiple inits >DM systemd default in jessie, support multiple inits >Usystemd default in jessie, say nothing about multiple inits > ^u

Bug#727708: Regarding sysvinit+openrc/insserv

2014-01-30 Thread Svante Signell
Who wrote the parts of sysvinit+openrc and sysvinit+insserv? Maybe that person should modify some of the faulty information for these cases. Some points: sysvinit+insserv/openrc: D-Bus interfaces: Why are they needed, nothing of this is defined by POSIX? And dbus is already heavily depending on s

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-31 Thread Svante Signell
To CTTE, In the wait for your decision next week, many of us assume that you take into consideration the many misleading and false statements that have been written about about sysvinit + openrc/insserv. Additionally, consider this, please: Adopting systemd (and gnome, dbus->kdbus, wayland, etc d

Bug#727708: Why open voting?

2014-02-09 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, Following this bug report for several months now this is really becoming a farce. Who is in charge calling for votes, and why don't you have a closed voting procedure? Of course the people voting later has a advantage against the others. Have you ever heard of game theory? This is like schedu

Bug#727708: [Fwd: Re: Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie]

2014-02-11 Thread Svante Signell
--- Begin Message --- > Anthony Towns writes: > > > A.6.6: Schwartz set is {D,U} > > A.6.8: There are no defeats in the Schwartz set, so the elector with > >the casting vote chooses which of these options wins. > > > > Per 6.3.2, the casting vote is held by the Chairman, who is currentl

Re: Bug#727708: init system coupling etc.

2014-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
> * Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [140212 19:00]: > > Packages should normally support the default Linux init system. There > > I would drop the word "Linux" here - Packages should support our > default init systems. If you do that then you have killed all non-linux architectures, is that i

Bug#727708: init system coupling etc.

2014-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
> On 2014-02-14 15:46:18 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Bug#727708: init system coupling etc."): > > > Don't you mean "drop GNOME, KDE and others"? It's not only GNOME that > > > plans to depend on logind... > > > > logind is a red herring because AIUI we already have a te

Bug#727708: init system coupling etc

2014-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
> > Debian is digging their own grave with respect to Free Software (not > > FOSS or FOS), why don't you align with M$soft, Apple or especially > > RedHat :( Debian will just be a memory in a few years, RedHat will be > > the solution for everybody (TM). > > Please take this sort of thing to some

Bug#636783: TC casting vote

2014-05-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 08:32 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 22/05/14 at 10:14 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:56:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > We have had some discussion about this. No-one seems to have objected > > > to the suggestion that the DPL, rather tha

Bug#636783: TC casting vote

2014-05-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 09:52 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 23/05/14 at 09:42 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 08:32 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > The solution is simple: Have an odd number of members in the TC. Then no > > casting

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Svante Signell
Package: tech-ctte Severity: Important When upgrading an old system installing certain packages, like network-manager and gdm3 systemd-sysv is installed changing the init system. These packages depend on libpam-systemd, which depends on systemd-sysv | systemd-shim. If systemd-shim is not installed

Re: Bug#762194: On automatic init system switching on upgrade

2014-11-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 13:51 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to see an end to open questions on systemd in Jessie. > > So, given that the GR is over and no technical proposals for not > switching init systems on upgrade to Jessie have been made, is it > possible to draw a con

Bug#762194: Alternative proposal for init switch on upgrades.

2014-11-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 03:10 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 05:29:42PM -0800, Cameron Norman wrote: > > I would like to propose a different one. > [...] > > > > So, the change would be that: the sysvinit package would cease being a > > transition / shim package, however it wo

Bug#762194: Alternative proposal for init switch on upgrades.

2014-11-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 13:55 -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Svante Signell writes: > > > Do people use the usb stick/cd/dvd etc for upgrades to jessie, i.e. the > > debian installer. Or do they only use apt/aptitude/etc? > > I don't know that we can speak in absolut

Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-25 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Below is a proposal for a (partial) solution for the upgrade problem of keeping the installed init system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765803 This has been discussed privately among selected users/DM/DDs and since the deadline for the ctte is December 4, it has to be

Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 09:56 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > > 2) In case you missed doing the above, you get a debconf prompt when > > No, no, no, no, no, no, no! > > Again: aborting the dist-upgrade in the debconf of one &g

Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 09:56 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > Does that work, > anyway (i.e. does installing systemd and immediately > reverting to sysvinit leave the system net unchanged, > modulo the dependencies it pulls in (see plane

Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:46 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:29:28PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > 1) Heavily advertise (release-notes?) that doing an upgrade from > > wheezy/etc to jessie will give you systemd as init system and inform >

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, In the (last) hope that the CTTE will bring this issue on the agenda next meeting on December 4. Additional information below and a short summary. On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 09:56 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > > > (another partial? so

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
One claim is changed, see below. On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > In summary: > a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > kept. > b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf > message

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:14 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > One claim is changed, see below. > > > > On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > In s

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:19 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:40 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan, > > please! > > You are of course free to do that. This discussion is abo

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 22:01 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Debian releases when it's ready. If large numbers of our users are > > going to > > have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to > > systemd, > > then we should take appr

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > In summary: > a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > kept. > b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf > message about alternative init systems.

Bug#762194: Debian has abandoned many users also on upgrades by the CTTE decision on December 4 2014

2014-12-05 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Looking at the IRC log http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-ctte.git/tree/meetings/20141204/debian-ctte.2014-12-04-18.00.log.txt lines 197 to 280 reveals the plan. Conclusion: quoting Steve Langasek: "we recommend/support systemd being the default init system for upgrades as

Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 21:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > The next debhelper change might choose to give / instead of /usr as a > target directory by default, moving hundreds of megabytes from /usr to / > over time. This solution was proposed by GNU/Hurd several years ago, and was scrapped due to

Re: Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 21:58 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > If we keep merged-/usr as default then we can /recommend/ people to > install usrmerge to switch to merged-/usr; reducing the difference > between newly-installed and existing setups is a good idea IMHO. I > think I filed a report for

Re: Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives

2020-01-27 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 11:01 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > Strikes me as there is a possible solution, though: have opensysusers > dpkg-divert it and put a shell script in its place that checks which > init system is running, and exec's the right sysusers based on that. It is as simple as

Bug#947847: [Fwd: Re: Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives]

2020-01-27 Thread Svante Signell
--- Begin Message --- On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 11:01 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > Strikes me as there is a possible solution, though: have opensysusers > dpkg-divert it and put a shell script in its place that checks which > init system is running, and exec's the right sysusers based on t

Re: Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives

2020-01-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 16:49 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > We'd first have to agree that an alternative is actually _needed_. > And so far, > the only arguments I have read in favour of providing alternatives to > /bin/systemd-sysusers are: > * A) it is shipped in the systemd binary package

Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives

2020-01-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 12:24 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > It's not like having two competing implementations causes much > harm here.we technically _can_ allow any /bin/systemd-* to be > provided by another implementation, that we should (actually, I think > we should clearly _not_). Of course the

Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives

2020-01-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 12:23 -0800, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Simon McVittie wrote: > > I think we have a fairly good picture of the costs that would be > > incurred from using alternatives: > > Plus in the case of opentmpfiles; a pile of security issues: systemd- > tmpfiles addresses a number of

Bug#1020792: tech-ctte: Halt merged-/usr transition until dpkg filesystem damage bugs are fixed

2022-09-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 18:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2022-09-27 Zack Weinberg wrote: > [...] > > What I am asking for is a schedule change: specifically, that the > > merged /usr transition not be allowed to proceed past the status > > quo as of two weeks ago (i.e. *before* init-system-h

Re: Bug#1020792: tech-ctte: Halt merged-/usr transition until dpkg filesystem damage bugs are fixed

2022-09-28 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, I would really appreciate if you quote your reply properly: It was not Andreas Metzler who sent the below: > On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 18:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2022-09-27 Zack Weinberg wrote: > > [...] On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 11:55 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > > This nu