Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-09 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Marco d'Itri (m...@linux.it): > On Jul 09, Alessio Treglia wrote: > > > I think that it would be valuable for our users to keep the > > non-default init system working on Jessie for those who do neither > > intend nor need to switch to systemd. > I suggest less thinking and more coding th

Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 09, Alessio Treglia wrote: > I think that it would be valuable for our users to keep the > non-default init system working on Jessie for those who do neither > intend nor need to switch to systemd. I suggest less thinking and more coding then, because an updated systemd-shim still has not

Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-09 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >- existing installations of older (pre-jessie) Debian may be > upgraded to our new standard init system systemd, but only > after the user has been suitably warned, e.g. via a debconf > propmpt at priority "medium" (i.e. no

Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
t...@debian.org wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>with this constant bickering and sniping. If you must do it, start the >>GR and see how that goes. I even offer to second it just to help get > >Can you help formulate? I do not feel my English skills are >up to that. I'm sorry, I don't really have

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 08 juillet 2014 à 08:13 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > If they don’t need any of the systemd features, I guess they don’t need > > any of its reverse dependencies either. > > Rubbish. I want network-manager, but I don't want systemd.

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-08 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Norbert Preining wrote: >On Mon, 07 Jul 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> If they don’t need any of the systemd features, I guess they don’t need >> any of its reverse dependencies either. > >Rubbish. I want network-manager, but I don't want systemd. I don’t, but I want most KDE packages, so

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-07 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If they don’t need any of the systemd features, I guess they don’t need > any of its reverse dependencies either. Rubbish. I want network-manager, but I don't want systemd. NM was working long time without systemd. Don't spread wrong information. No

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 04 juillet 2014 à 15:09 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : > But if they don’t want the systemd features why should they write > software to replace systemd? If they don’t need any of the systemd features, I guess they don’t need any of its reverse dependencies either. So why do they co

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-05 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
me: >> (I did find his comment funny -- actually, I find the CoC ifself pretty >> funny --, but I realise that this is an international mailing list and >> that Austrian-Japanese humour is not necessarily obvious to everyone.) Tollef Fog Heen: > Humour [...] does not work very well on large list

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
The Wanderer dijo [Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 11:18:12PM -0400]: > > It must work without systemd well enough to be able to cleanly reboot > > the system from the GUI, after upgrading. > > > > Anything beyond that is nice-to-have, but definitely NOT required. > > I, for one, would be highly displeased

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-05 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Juliusz Chroboczek [140704 23:00]: > (I did find his comment funny -- > actually, I find the CoC ifself pretty funny --, but I realise that this > is an international mailing list and that Austrian-Japanese humour is not > necessarily obvious to everyone.) I'd suggest you stop with the country-

Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/04/2014 10:28 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > 4) all init systems currently in Debian are supported in jessie; We don't need a GR to support this option. Of course, all init systems are supported, to the best of our efforts, and I don't see why someone would refuse a patch. I haven't seen such

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephan Seitz [2014-07-04 15:09 +0200]: > But if they don’t want the systemd features why should they write > software to replace systemd? Because there are better ways to implement it, including more granular approaches and less of a desktop focus. And you could be a better upstream

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Juliusz Chroboczek writes: > I'll remind you that this thread started with systemd breaking my > system, and a systemd maintainer summarily closing my bug report. Not > once, but twice. Because the bug was already fixed in a newer version of systemd. While we're reminding people of things. >

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Langasek: > While I have no interest in joining Norbert in calling for your ban, I would > like to ask you to consider taking a step back from this thread, and > evaluating whether such messages are actually contributing to bringing these > discussions to a conclusion. > Thanks for the

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I [...] will try to avoid breaking stuff I expect no less from a Debian Developer. > but it's also a use case we don't hit, so breakage there is less likely > to be seen by us. We'll do our best to fix it when reported, of course. That is good to hear. It would be eve

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Norbert Preining
> I have yet to find mr Preining funny in any of his mails sent to any of > the lists I read. Humour, except when accompanied with explicit tags of > HERE BE HUMOUR does not work very well on large lists. Well, because I don't write "WARNING HUMOUR COMING" and then some people don't get it b

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Juliusz Chroboczek > > While I have no interest in joining Norbert in calling for your ban, > > Having had the pleasure to meet Norbert in person, I have no doubt that he > was joking when appealing to the CoC. I have yet to find mr Preining funny in any of his mails sent to any of the lists

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> While I have no interest in joining Norbert in calling for your ban, Having had the pleasure to meet Norbert in person, I have no doubt that he was joking when appealing to the CoC. (I did find his comment funny -- actually, I find the CoC ifself pretty funny --, but I realise that this is an i

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Matthias, On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 04:02:38PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Norbert Preining: > > > Then shut up and help with the work required to get there, > > Please stop this inpoliteness, or I request a ban on all mailing lists > > due to permanent breaking of Code of Conduct. > *what* Se

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* The Wanderer , 2014-07-04, 12:00: Zurg (Jessie+1), Has that name actually been formalized in any way? No. But no worries, if RT chooses a different name, we'll have a GR to override them. :-P -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 04, The Wanderer wrote: > This part is precisely what I'm objecting to. I don't consider being > expected to reboot *in order to maintain existing functionality* after > an upgrade to be reasonable. Tough luck for you then, I fear that this is a perception issue. > At the very least, in t

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 11:28 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Borowski: >> There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the >> kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such >> forced reboots on

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, July 04, 2014 17:28:05 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Borowski: > > There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the > > kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such > > forced reboots on a repeated basis, I don't like where

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Adam Borowski: > There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the > kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such > forced reboots on a repeated basis, I don't like where this is going. > systemd and its components can re-exec themselves, t

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 10:42 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52:07AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > >> So, let me get this straight: >> >> You're saying that if, having decided to postpone rebooting after >> an upgrade where any reasona

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014, at 16:42, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52:07AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > So, let me get this straight: > > > > You're saying that if, having decided to postpone rebooting after an > > upgrade where any reasonable person would expect to reboot > > Thi

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52:07AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > So, let me get this straight: > > You're saying that if, having decided to postpone rebooting after an > upgrade where any reasonable person would expect to reboot This is Debian, not Windows or Red Hat, forced reboots are not accept

GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steve McIntyre wrote: >with this constant bickering and sniping. If you must do it, start the >GR and see how that goes. I even offer to second it just to help get Can you help formulate? I do not feel my English skills are up to that. Also, what options do we need? 1) systemd is the only init

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Norbert Preining: > > Then shut up and help with the work required to get there, > Please stop this inpoliteness, or I request a ban on all mailing lists > due to permanent breaking of Code of Conduct. *what* Seriously?!? One of us seems to harbor a severe misconception or two about what kin

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Thorsten Glaser: >> systemd is a backdoor in that, like the availability of Steam >> games for DDs, it has a chance to hinder the progress of all >> projects done in the spare time of the people affected. >Yeah. It "has a chance". Yes. (I was more or less referring to th

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >You know, backdoors are not only code vulnerabilities. > >systemd is a backdoor in that, like the availability of Steam >games for DDs, it has a chance to hinder the progress of all >projects done in the spare time of the people affected. Thorsten, you're too late. The ar

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Then shut up and help with the work required to get there, Please stop this inpoliteness, or I request a ban on all mailing lists due to permanent breaking of Code of Conduct. (Long live the CoC - I am *so* happy to have it!! - hope someone got

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 08:40:59PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: The problem is that some people bitch endlessly abut how evil systemd is _instead_of_ producing software (not just patches) to replace what systemd offers. But if they don’t want the systemd features why should they write softwa

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Dominik George
Hi Thorsten, while I tend to basically acknowledge your points here, there is still one thing you obviously did not get until now, if I followed along correctly. >For example, systemd has support for its own (S)NTP client, but also >supports xntpd (rudely leaving OpenNTPD out already). The commi

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dominik George dixit: >systemd, in its nature as an init system, starts what you tell it to >start. There is nothing that can prevent it from starting openntpd if >you want that. If you through a service file at it, or even an LSB >init script, then systemd has no choice but to start it. No, this

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> The problem is that some people bitch endlessly abut how evil systemd is >> _instead_of_ producing software (not just patches) to replace what >> systemd offers. > >Abstracting away from your somewhat offensive choice of language, that's >a good point. As far as I'm aw

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > systemd is a backdoor in that, like the availability of Steam > games for DDs, it has a chance to hinder the progress of all > projects done in the spare time of the people affected. > Yeah. It "has a chance". It also "has a chance" to give people a big chunk of spare time

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 04:52 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> ... particularly because I use rather fewer things than many other >> people, and don't use most fancy GUI elements. (For example, I >> don't have a graphical "power button" a

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> The problem is that some people bitch endlessly abut how evil systemd is > _instead_of_ producing software (not just patches) to replace what > systemd offers. Abstracting away from your somewhat offensive choice of language, that's a good point. As far as I'm aware, the only major distribution

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
OdyX wrote: >all means, go for it. That said, as far as I remember, the latest GR >proposal [4] on this subject failed to gather the mandatory K seconds >though. For me, this indicates that not even K=5 DDs were interested in I was not even aware of that proposal. This may also indicate lack of,

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 04:59:25PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser has been seen typing: > No, there just has not been any challenge that met the form and > other requirements… and I am at a bit of loss at what to do here. > Besides, it’s not that the TC made a decision. Rather, the TC wa

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
That will be my last contribution to this pointless discussion. Le jeudi, 3 juillet 2014, 16.59:25 Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > or without systemd btw). Given that the technical committee has made > > a decision which stayed unchallenged (so far), I've now come to > > think that > No, there just

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014, at 16:59, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Besides, it’s not that the TC made a decision. Rather, the TC was > split, and the chairman threw in his weight. This is absolutely not > what I’d call a project(!) decision. No! The TC has made the decision with full adherence to Debian Con

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
The Wanderer writes: > ... particularly because I use rather fewer things than > many other people, and don't use most fancy GUI elements. (For example, > I don't have a graphical "power button" at all; I shut down by exiting > my window manager, logging out of the console where I had originally

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 11:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to >> testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > >> I generally dist-upgrade my primary co

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The Wanderer: > I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to > testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > We're talking about an upgrade from one release to the other here, with many intrusive changes (not just systemd). If you do that upgrade not in

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to > testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > I generally dist-upgrade my primary computer to testing about once a > week, give or take, but I don't reboot it more often than once a month

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 01:40 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Thorsten Glaser: >>> Can we get over this now and start making Jessie the most awesome >>> stable release we've ever prepared together? >> >> To do that, it MUST work without systemd, if a

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 03/07/14 22:50, David Weinehall wrote: > Why would the NSA take even the slightest risk of discovery > when they could put a backdoor in a driver for a piece of hardware that > has full access to your system? Or on the firmware of your HDD/SDD: http://s3.eurecom.fr/~zaddach/docs/Recon14_HDD.pd

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Matthias Urlichs writes: >> Please respect our decision to stay away from systemd and still be >> Debian users. If possible, please, don't resist changes that make our >> lives easier. >> > *Sigh*. > > The problem is not that anybody resists such changes. I disagree. People *do* in fact res

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 11:25:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [snip] > If the NSA are going to hide back-doors in open source projects (a rather > dubious idea to start with, given how difficult it is and how much social > blowback there would be when such a thing was inevitably discovered), they >

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Alexander Pushkin: > It's core developers *Its. I think we can do without (quite unfounded, IMHO) insinuations that systemd is somehow infected with an NSA-sponsored backdoor or two, thank you very much. > Please respect our decision to stay away from systemd and still be Debian > users. I

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexander Pushkin writes: > For some of us there will never be an awesome Debian release that at > it's core contains systemd. It's core developers, Lennart Poettering and > Kay Sievers, work for a company that has multi-billion dollar contracts > with NSA. It is your choice to assume good faith

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Alexander Pushkin
Didier, Hello. > The proper solution is to stop trying to hide ourselves from to the fact > that some sort of systemd interfaces have been made unavoidable in > modern desktop environments (fact which is rightfully reflected in our > dependencies tree). > Can we get over this now and start ma

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > A lot of Debian systems even run without dbus! > Yeah. So? systemd doesn't force you to run a dbus daemon. > No, there just has not been any challenge that met the form and > other requirements… and I am at a bit of loss at what to do here. > You get to do the same thing

sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > The proper solution is to stop trying to hide ourselves from to the fact > that some sort of systemd interfaces have been made unavoidable in > modern desktop environments (fact which is rightfully reflected in our Eh… you know… these are not a