Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Scott Leggett
On 19/07/13 11:48, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I didn't know about the init= method and was assuming the systemd-sysv > method. Anyway, my point is that I suspect the vast majority of the > systems with the systemd package installed are not actually using it as > process 1. > > The upstart package

Re: /usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:06:27PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:25:42AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > - using the same infrastructure, it's also possible to > > > mount /etc in the initramfs so that yo

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On 07/19/2013 02:55 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I believe the equivalent systemd package to the upstart package is the >> systemd-sysv package, so 174 rather than 1604 is perhaps the better >> number to use. > I'm not sure whether I can follow. I am using syste

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > > > Popcon however speaks a completely different language: > > >> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart > >> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd > > > Currently 64 counted installations for upstart versus 1604 count

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Klumpp writes: > 2013/7/19 Russ Allbery : >> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: >>> Popcon however speaks a completely different language: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd >>> Currently 64 counted installations fo

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/7/19 Russ Allbery : > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > >> Popcon however speaks a completely different language: > >>> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart >>> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd > >> Currently 64 counted installations for upstart versus 1604 counted

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/19/2013 02:55 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: I believe the equivalent systemd package to the upstart package is the systemd-sysv package, so 174 rather than 1604 is perhaps the better number to use. I'm not sure whether I can follow. I am using systemd on both my desktop and my laptop and neithe

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-07-19): > On a sidenote: Anyone can explain what could probably have caused this > sharp drop in installations? Were there any significant problems with > the current version of upstart in Debian? Probably that? http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-dev

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > Popcon however speaks a completely different language: >> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=upstart >> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=systemd > Currently 64 counted installations for upstart versus 1604 counted > installations for systemd with

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 09:45 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: If OpenRC isn't what we need (I still believe it does address a bunch of problems and that the fact it can work for non-Linux port is a key factor), then I'd be for Upstart. I do maintain my packages so that they work for both Ubuntu and Debian, havin

Work-needing packages report for Jul 19, 2013

2013-07-18 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 492 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 150 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18 July 2013 21:14, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thomas Goirand (2013-07-19): >> So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would >> be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean >> loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))?

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 22:59 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > On 18/07/13 22:44, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 12:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due > >> to various dependencies: > >> https://buildd.debian.or

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/07/13 22:44, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 12:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due >> to various dependencies: >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=resiprocate&suite=sid >> >> and it appears t

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 12:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due > to various dependencies: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=resiprocate&suite=sid > > and it appears these dependencies have been unavailable for a long

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (2013-07-19): > So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would > be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean > loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))? Surely, you could have tried “porting upstart kfre

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 juillet 2013 21:45 CEST, Thomas Goirand  : > So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would > be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean > loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))? Upstart doesn't support cgrou

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:45:21AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > So that brings me to ask: do you have an idea of how much work it would > be to have Upstart ported to kFreeBSD or Hurd (even if that would mean > loosing some of the functionality (obviously cgroups comes to mind))? As for cgroups,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/19/2013 02:21 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > But unless you've only ever used Debian on systems with a flat > partition:filesystem structure, with no network filesystem mounts, no > LVM/RAID/LUKS, and no networks more complicated than a single interface, > you've either been affected by these ra

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Thomas Goirand debian.org> writes: > > You have to define what problem we are trying to solve. And this still > hasn't been defined yet in this list. What for? Seriously. There are a whole lot of features in systemd which I, for one, do NOT want to do without any longer. Decent process state

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 08:21 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: But unless you've only ever used Debian on systems with a flat partition:filesystem structure, with no network filesystem mounts, no LVM/RAID/LUKS, and no networks more complicated than a single interface, you've either been affected by these race co

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:15:12PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) > Could you point at these bugs? No. Look, Thomas, you asked what the goals of event-based init systems are, a

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:46:28PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due > to various dependencies: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=resiprocate&suite=sid I see it built immediately on kfreebsd-*, what's the problem?

Re: On accepting pre-generated doc from upstream

2013-07-18 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 18 July 2013 14:45:38 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [snip] > - Option 3: > > (Note: I'm assuming you are generating API docs directly fromt the > source files. So the input for the doc building is not seperable from > the actual source.) > > For packages 1 and 2 build without docs but

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 17 juillet 2013 à 12:26 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > I wonder what systemd integration problems will be handwaved as "somebody > else's problem", the way the kernel audio driver issues were for PA. Frankly, I don’t see this coming at all. Systemd has been deployed on a large numb

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/18/2013 08:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/18/2013 01:48 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: A friendly upstream *is* important in a comparsion chart. Working with an unfriendly, or even hostile upstream is not something you want to have in a core component of an operating system. Fr

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:47:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> It's about the same on the other side when Lennart tells about Systemd > >> "debunking myths". > > I'd ask for some arguments here. > > This has already been discussed. You can look in the archive. I don't think so. -- WBR, wRA

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:50:17PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems > > > >> "friendly upstream yes no NO YES" > > > > Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? > > I wasn't the one who wrote

Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

2013-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:14:54AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Tad Frank wrote: > > Your issue lies in the line: sed -e "s/$REGISTERED_IP/$CURRENT_IP/g" > > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new > > I searched debian-devel for the message to which you are responding; > the most recent message with that sub

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Morris
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:14:56 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: How do I do that with just plain Alsa without using a text editor? >>> >>> In VLC: >>> >>> ctrl-p, go to the audio tab, and select the correct device in the >>> "output" frame. >>> >>> That's not VLC-specific, FWIW; most applications

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 07:12 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/18/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems > >> "friendly upstream yes no NO YES" > > Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 02:28 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: On 18/07/13 12:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: And systemd has a graphical user interface? Yes, systemadm(1) in systemd-ui. It was recently split into a separate (upstream and Debian source) package. It's hardly comprehensive, but it exists.

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:15:48AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:43:57PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > > even "sli

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 07:00 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:33:08PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> It's about the same on the other side when Lennart tells about Systemd >> "debunking myths". > I'd ask for some arguments here. This has already been discussed. You can look in th

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Morris
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:14:56 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > PulseAudio piles another layer of possible failures on top of a > kernel driver, and hides most of the audio mixer for no particularly > good reason other than "it might confuse the poor user". It just > doesn't make any

Re: ITP: vmdebootstrap -- Bootstrap Debian into a (virtual machine) disk image

2013-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:22:27PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Neil Williams > > * Package name: vmdebootstrap > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius > * URL : https://gitorious.org/vmdebootstrap > * License

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On 18/07/13 12:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > And systemd has a graphical user interface? Yes, systemadm(1) in systemd-ui. It was recently split into a separate (upstream and Debian source) package. It's hardly comprehensive, but it exists. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: On accepting pre-generated doc from upstream

2013-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:35:46PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi everyone. First of all, I'm cross-posting this between legal and devel > because I really don't know to which of them belongs (or maybe it does in > both). > > The issue is this: Qt 5 has grown so large (8

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 01:48 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: A friendly upstream *is* important in a comparsion chart. Working with an unfriendly, or even hostile upstream is not something you want to have in a core component of an operating system. Friendliness has nothing to do with accepting every single pat

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Gergely Nagy
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On 07/18/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems > >> "friendly upstream yes no NO YES" > > Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? A friendly upstream

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/18/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_init_systems > "friendly upstreamyes no NO YES" Really? You put something like this in a technical comparison chart? And systemd has a graphical user interface? Wow, I don't even...

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 06:33:08PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > It's about the same on the other side when Lennart tells about Systemd > "debunking myths". If this wasn't about systemd, I'd ask for some arguments here. But as all systemd discussions are full of FUD anyway, it won't help much here

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Pocock, le Thu 18 Jul 2013 12:46:28 +0200, a écrit : > To avoid causing delays for users who want the fixes in testing, I'm > tempted to just change "Architecture: any" and cut out those other > platforms. I'd say there is no need for this. If *your* package is supposed to work on all plat

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 04:30 PM, William Giokas wrote: > If you're going to cite something showing that OpenRC is good, please > don't show something that is so obviously biased it's not even funny > anymore. I agree that this wiki page is obviously biased, and that is to be expected at the wiki.gentoo.org

buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due to various dependencies: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=resiprocate&suite=sid and it appears these dependencies have been unavailable for a long time. The bottom line is that urgent fixes in the package are

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/7/18 William Giokas <1007...@gmail.com>: > Having not used OpenRC, I have no comment on the real world advantages > or disadvantages of either init system I'm a user of Gentoo and Debian. I do not care of what to type: 'emerge -avuND world' or 'apt-get upgrade' I do not care of which init s

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread William Giokas
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:15:12PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) > > Could you point at these bugs? > > > - Reliable service supervision > > Have you tried using rc-status? Or

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) Could you point at these bugs? > - Reliable service supervision Have you tried using rc-status? Or do you mean restarting crashed daemons? > - Fast startup I thought everyone c

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 18-07-13 06:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/18/2013 01:00 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> They're both APIs that applications can use to produce audio. What do >> you mean, it doesn't make sense? >> >> Of course they're not the same thing; I get that. That's not what I'm >> saying. Bu

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 juillet 2013 01:00 CEST, Wouter Verhelst  : >> Alsa is a completely different layer in the sound stack. It doesn't even >> make sense to compare these two. > > They're both APIs that applications can use to produce audio. What do > you mean, it doesn't make sense? > > Of course they're not t