Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:03:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:14:39PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I'm sure that systemd does much better than a traditional sysvinit boot > > > with > > > /bin/bash and no dependency-based booting. But then, so does Debian's > > >

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:23:01 -0400 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I don't personally think it's interesting or relevant to record in > > debian/copyright the license of generated files, and there is certainly > > nothing in Policy that requires you to do this. Why do you ask? > > > My sponsor reques

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:54:14 -0400 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Neil Williams writes: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 > > Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > > >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for f

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "brian m. carlson" Hi, | Also, I've installed systemd on my laptop and it logs almost nothing | to the console ("verbose" on the kernel command line does not help). try doing systemd.log_level=debug as documented in the man page? cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's jus

Re: massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards

2011-07-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Robert Millan wrote: > Title and template description (below) is self-explanatory. 156 > packages are affected (list is attached). > > Package: %package% > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: kfreebsd > > The debian/control file in %package% uses a negated list of

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Neil Williams writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 > Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files >> that are installed by the generated .deb. >> >> Does that mea

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Steve Langasek writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files >> that are installed by the generated .deb. > >> Does that me

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > > Tradeoff? What tradeoff? > > The tradeoff of hard-coding policy into C code in exchange for faster boot. What's actually hard-coded so hard that it would have negative effects? What do you actually *lose* here? The systemd model prefers to avoid shell scrip

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:05:56PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > I think the important question is whether portability to other kernels > is or should be a "project's goal", and how much else you're willing > to lose for the sake of that goal. I know I would personally be a lot > happier with a Debia

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Uoti Urpala writes: > I think the important question is whether portability to other kernels > is or should be a "project's goal", and how much else you're willing to > lose for the sake of that goal. I believe that it should be, and I'm willing to lose systemd for that goal, although hopefully

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: > Uoti Urpala pp1.inet.fi> writes: > > > Upstart is still used in Ubuntu but doesn't seem to have much future > > elsewhere. There's quite a lot of interest in systemd for Debian too, > > whereas I've seen few people express interest in Upstart. > > Funny, my p

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:14:39PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > I'm sure that systemd does much better than a traditional sysvinit boot with > > /bin/bash and no dependency-based booting. But then, so does Debian's > > current boot system, and so does upstart; and neither of the latter two > > in

Re: Portability of systemd [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-18 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (By the way, I thought kfreebsd and hurd supported openat fine already. > It's even part of POSIX. And %m is handled by glibc, not the kernel, > so not a problem for our ports.) I know the FreeBSD kernel has supported openat(2) si

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> I have not seen any serious attempt at measuring how big this impact >> actually is > I'd expect some important differences between shell script based init > and systemd-type init Yeah, that's everybody's intuition too. But Steve is right -- it would be good to see some real benchmarks. -- J

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Russ Allbery (18/07/2011): >> The upstart maintainers have expressed considerably more willingness to >> date to work with Debian on meeting our project's goals and >> incorporating those changes into the upstream release. > For reference, that would likely be: > htt

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:18:14PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > > I'm sure that systemd does much better than a traditional sysvinit boot with > > /bin/bash and no dependency-based booting. But then, so does Debian's > > current boot system, and so does upstart

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (18/07/2011): > The upstart maintainers have expressed considerably more willingness > to date to work with Debian on meeting our project's goals and > incorporating those changes into the upstream release. For reference, that would likely be: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/200

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:54:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Moritz Mühlenhoff writes: > > > There're other blockers beside systemd to KFreeBSD being a full Debian > > port, e.g. the lack of KMS in Xorg. Even the guy who gave a talk von > > FreeBSD at last year's DebConf didn't use FreeBSD on

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Uoti Urpala writes: > Upstart is still used in Ubuntu but doesn't seem to have much future > elsewhere. There's quite a lot of interest in systemd for Debian too, > whereas I've seen few people express interest in Upstart. Funny, my personal experience has been the exact opposite, including the

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > I'm sure that systemd does much better than a traditional sysvinit boot with > /bin/bash and no dependency-based booting. But then, so does Debian's > current boot system, and so does upstart; and neither of the latter two > involve grandiose claims of a "shel

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Jon, On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:30:15AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Likewise, a recent kernel does not seem like a problem, and cgroups seems > like a fairly core part of what systemd does. There are use cases where requiring the latest kernel would be a problem. For example, some virtual ho

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:22:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:51:17PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > In fact, a minimal systemd system will win in almost very aspect against > > a remotely similarly powerful sysvinit system: you will need much fewer > > processe

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:51:17PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > In fact, a minimal systemd system will win in almost very aspect against > a remotely similarly powerful sysvinit system: you will need much fewer > processes to boot. That means much shorter boot times. This is, as far as I'm a

Re: Portability of systemd [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > No, because that's not the case of systemd's core. From what I've seen, > most of the non-portable code in systemd's core is merely there for > convenience. For example, the %m printf descriptor is used extensively, > which is just shorthand for strerror. Similarly,

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files > that are installed by the generated .deb. > Does that mean that files that are *generat

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files > that are installed by the generated .deb. > > Does that mean that files that are *generated*

DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hi, I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files that are installed by the generated .deb. Does that mean that files that are *generated* during execution of debian/rules (e.g. rendered documentation)

Bug#634345: ITP: telepathy-farstream -- Glue library between telepathy and farsight2

2011-07-18 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort * Package name: telepathy-farstream Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Olivier Crête and others * URL : http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ * License : LGPL 2.1+ Programming Lang

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Moritz Mühlenhoff writes: > There're other blockers beside systemd to KFreeBSD being a full Debian > port, e.g. the lack of KMS in Xorg. Even the guy who gave a talk von > FreeBSD at last year's DebConf didn't use FreeBSD on his desktop. It's one thing to not work well on desktops, though, and q

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Jon Dowland schrieb: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:12:04AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Developing for Linux-only is fine, but Lennart has explicitly said that >> he wouldn’t remotely consider accepting portability patches, which goes >> further than any other piece of free software I had to d

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Leigh | Seriously? It's just a poll interface. How hard could it /possibly/ | be to fall back to using plain poll(2) in the mainloop? poll(2) does not give you edge triggers, something systemd uses, so while you can emulate this in your own code, it does make life more complex. Chee

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie writes: > Is Linux suitable for all purposes for which an OS is needed? I think > that's an open question. I'm not at all convinced that the ability to > use kFreeBSD or Hurd makes Debian any more universal (in terms of people > who can use it, or things you can use it for) than it

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:03:41PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >>  c) the big problem for them about portability is not so much that i won't >> accept the patches. it's primarily that porting it to non-linux is >> practically impossible. abou

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Simon McVittie wrote: > The point at which kFreeBSD or Hurd might harm Debian's universality is the > point at which supporting them causes problems for the rest of the project. That is the crux of the issue. I think that if we find ourselves being held back by needing to support kfreebsd or the h

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russell Coker | On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: | > > The above is from the ps output of one of my i386 servers running | > > Squeeze. It appears that systemd has allocated an extra 2324K of RAM | > > and has an extra 2712K resident. Given that it's difficult to buy a | > > ph

Re: "register" files in dpkg database programmatically? (was Re: How Debian Deals with Data)

2011-07-18 Thread Christopher Baines
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:19 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > - Treat the file as though it were shipped in the package directly. > > This means it is removed on package upgrade, as well as on package > > removal. This is very straightforwar

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > The above is from the ps output of one of my i386 servers running > > Squeeze. It appears that systemd has allocated an extra 2324K of RAM > > and has an extra 2712K resident. Given that it's difficult to buy a > > phone with less than 256M of RA

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Developing for Linux-only is fine, but Lennart has explicitly said that > he wouldn’t remotely consider accepting portability patches, which goes > further than any other piece of free software I had to deal with. To the contrary, it's quite similar to OpenBSD's handling

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I spoke with Lennart Poettering about this thread on IRC, and he asked me > > to forward some clarifications about systemd to this list: > >><< > > i found while reading through that thread > > a) the main memory usage by systemd is actually the se

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:34 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:13:02PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : > > > 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) > > > > 3 basically means dropping "Universal" from Debian, and replac

Re: Portability of systemd [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> It's not a simple portability problem, systemd relies on very complex >> Linux-specific stuff. > > Well, having looked at the code, yes and no. > > Yes, because systemd recodes the whole startup process in C. > Translating a lot of dist

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Robert Millan | 2011/7/18 Tollef Fog Heen : | > | The main issue I have with dropping kFreeBSD & HURD would be (apart from | > | losing two platforms I use - even if for fun only; I don't want to use a | > | distribution that doesn't allow me to have as much fun as I do now) that | > | it lead

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:03:41PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > c) the big problem for them about portability is not so much that i won't > accept the patches. it's primarily that porting it to non-linux is > practically impossible. about every line of it is non-portable code > i.e. we alre

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> Yes but 793691kb of unkillable even by -9 signal is not really nice. > > root         1  0.0  1.0   4348  2844 ?        Ss   May26   0:56 /bin/systemd > --log-level info --log-target syslog-or

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klumpp, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 16:03:41 +0200, a écrit : > though if you then subtract the memory for inetd and so on, it will > probably comapre not too bad. Does systemd really intend to replace inetd too, including things like internal echo server etc.? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! I spoke with Lennart Poettering about this thread on IRC, and he asked me to forward some clarifications about systemd to this list: >><< i found while reading through that thread a) the main memory usage by systemd is actually the selinux policy we load in to memory so that we can tag socke

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-07-18, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Just for the record: Hurd's no longer in unstable and hasn't been for a >> while. > Just for the record: Hurd is still in unstable and has been there for a > while, and is considered as a candidate for wheezy. Just for the record: Hurd is not yet considere

Portability of systemd [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> It's not a simple portability problem, systemd relies on very complex > Linux-specific stuff. Well, having looked at the code, yes and no. Yes, because systemd recodes the whole startup process in C. Translating a lot of distritibution-specific shell code into C is not going to be portable:

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/18 Tollef Fog Heen : > | The main issue I have with dropping kFreeBSD & HURD would be (apart from > | losing two platforms I use - even if for fun only; I don't want to use a > | distribution that doesn't allow me to have as much fun as I do now) that > | it leads down the path of dropping w

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Yes but 793691kb of unkillable even by -9 signal is not really nice. root 1 0.0 1.0 4348 2844 ?Ss May26 0:56 /bin/systemd --log-level info --log-target syslog-or-kmsg --system --dump-core --show- status=1 --sysv-console=1 -

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Gergely Nagy wrote: [...] > (Personally, I like the patch systemd path best, and time and skill > permitting, I'd be happy to help, if so need be.) While that may sound attractive at first, I don't think it's technically possible at all at the moment. It's not a s

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Gergely Nagy wrote: > The main issue I have with dropping kFreeBSD & HURD would be (apart from > losing two platforms I use - even if for fun only; I don't want to use a > distribution that doesn't allow me to have as much fun as I do now) that > it leads down the path of drop

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Juliusz Chroboczek, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 14:03:19 +0200, a écrit : >> > It's actually lighter than sysvinit, from what I've seen so far, >> >> $ size /sbin/init /bin/systemd >>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename >>   30040    13

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault | Just for the record: Hurd is still in unstable and has been there for a | while, and is considered as a candidate for wheezy. Oh, indeed, it's just so far behind I didn't see it. Mea culpa. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends ar

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Juliusz Chroboczek, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 14:03:19 +0200, a écrit : > > It's actually lighter than sysvinit, from what I've seen so far, > > $ size /sbin/init /bin/systemd >textdata bss dec hex filename > 300401320 612 319727ce4 /sbin/init > 7936916748218

Re: A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test

2011-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > Anyway, can you please post the incompatibility list here, if it's not > too long ? Never mind, fetched it myself. Ian. make-dfsg (3.82-1) experimental; urgency=low * New upstream release. A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here: http://sv.gnu.org/bugs

Re: A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test

2011-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test"): > make 3.82 will require some transitions due to backward > incompatibility on GNU-make-specific features. Some bug reports have > already occurred for build issues with make 3.82, suc

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:54:45 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Just for the record: Hurd's no longer in unstable and hasn't been for a while. Hurd very much is still in unstable - hppa was the h.{3} architecture which we dropped. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> It's actually lighter than sysvinit, from what I've seen so far, $ size /sbin/init /bin/systemd textdata bss dec hex filename 300401320 612 319727ce4 /sbin/init 79369167482188 802627 c3f43 /bin/systemd -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: "register" files in dpkg database programmatically? (was Re: How Debian Deals with Data)

2011-07-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > - Treat the file as though it were shipped in the package directly. >  This means it is removed on package upgrade, as well as on package >  removal.  This is very straightforward (append the filename to >  /var/lib/dpkg/info/{foo}.list), b

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/07/11 13:15, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio writes: > >> > On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> >> Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : >>> 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >>> What if next year $upstream_of_an_important_package decides that he only >>> cares about amd64 and arm? The rest of the world is obsolete anyway... >> >> What about also embeded marked ? Projection says what consumer will >> use more embeded

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > | The main issue I have with dropping kFreeBSD & HURD would be (apart from > | losing two platforms I use - even if for fun only; I don't want to use a > | distribution that doesn't allow me to have as much fun as I do now) that > | it leads down the path of dropping wha

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tollef Fog Heen, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 13:54:45 +0200, a écrit : > | Federico Di Gregorio writes: > | > | > On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: > | >> Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : > | >>> 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally > | >>> 2. support multi

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Gergely Nagy | Federico Di Gregorio writes: | | > On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: | >> Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : | >>> 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally | >>> 2. support multiple init systems | >>> 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and ot

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 at 12:34:52 +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Wasn't "universal" as in "runs everywhere" (i.e., on a lot of archs) vs > as "runs everything" (when a Debian GNU/WinNT?). I've always understood "the universal OS" to mean "all-purpose" and/or "for everyone". There's currently n

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
>> What if next year $upstream_of_an_important_package decides that he only >> cares about amd64 and arm? The rest of the world is obsolete anyway... > > What about also embeded marked ? Projection says what consumer will > use more embeded software than desktop in the next years. > Systemd seems

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio writes: > >> On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally 2. support multiple init systems 3.

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> start-stop-daemon (and/or a new C helper that is run like s-s-d and > does some of the same things as systemd) Another architecture would be a daemon that is run from inittab, but yes, your have a point there. -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> I think only supporting Linux is entirely his perogative: It's his > project, his time and he can support what he wants. Hmm. I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that he's pushing systemd as the standard init, not just as his hobby project. Josselin may have more information. -- Ju

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
Federico Di Gregorio writes: > On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : >>> 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally >>> 2. support multiple init systems >>> 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) >> >> 3 basically means d

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/07/11 12:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : >> 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally >> 2. support multiple init systems >> 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) > > 3 basically

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:13:02PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : > > 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) > > 3 basically means dropping "Universal" from Debian, and replace it with > "Linux". I seem to recall "Universal" existing long

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jon Dowland, le Mon 18 Jul 2011 10:35:30 +0100, a écrit : > 1. carry portability patches against systemd locally > 2. support multiple init systems > 3. drop kfreebsd (and HURD and others) 3 basically means dropping "Universal" from Debian, and replace it with "Linux". Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#634262: ITP: arpwatch-ng -- Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor, based on arpwatch

2011-07-18 Thread Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Amaya Rodrigo Sastre -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Current arpwatch maintainer will be in the Uploaders field as per http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/09/msg00037.html together with Anibal. Both are Cc:ed on this ITP. * Package name

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:35:30AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:12:04AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > We need one and only one init system in Debian. (Those considering > > maintaining several init systems in parallel do not see how stupid, > > bloated and error-prone

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 at 10:30:15 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > I don't suppose it would be worth maintaining a patch-set in Debian to support > other OSs: In a hypothetical future where systemd was the default init system > for Debian, it's probably less work to support multiple init systems and let >

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 à 10:35 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > I've just written pretty much the opposite in my last message to the thread, > however: it's my opinion that supporting kfreebsd et al should be done with > the > minimum impact on the Linux Debian distribution. So, pre-supposing s

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:12:04AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Developing for Linux-only is fine, but Lennart has explicitly said that > he wouldn’t remotely consider accepting portability patches, which goes > further than any other piece of free software I had to deal with. Oh. That's wors

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:26:34PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Yes, and that's exactly what I find worrying about Lennart's attitude: > he presumes to impose his policy on you -- you must use Linux, you must > use a recent kernel with cgroups enabled, you're not supposed to use > shell scrip

A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test

2011-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, make 3.82 will require some transitions due to backward incompatibility on GNU-make-specific features. Some bug reports have already occurred for build issues with make 3.82, such as http://bugs.debian.org/603759 . Since there are known backward incompatibilities, make has been up

Re: massive bug report to replace hardcoded "kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64" with "kfreebsd-any" (where suitable)

2011-07-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday, July 17, 2011 01:06:55 AM Robert Millan wrote: Hi, > This one affects only 22 packages: > > argyll cdparanoia checkinstall cyrus-imapd-2.2 cyrus-imapd-2.4 > dvd+rw-tools freeglut icecc k3b k8temp kolab-cyrus-imapd libburn > libcdio libgtop2 libisoburn libsysactivity mtx oss-libsalsa q