Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:10:19PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:26:53PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > The rationale for the change was: > > > * sysvinit conntrackd script is really poor, to reliably use > > >conntrackd as a systemd daemon you should use syste

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-08-28 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-08-28 02:22 gregor herrmann: On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:40:03 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: On 26-08-16 23:40, Julien Cristau wrote: > off the top of my head: > - it's wasting time of anyone doing QA work > - it's wasting time of any user who looks for a piece of software to > do > $stuff and

Fixing the Debian Policy Manual to finally reflect changes from 2014 (was: "Is missing SysV-init support a bug?" on debian-devel)

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Robert Edmonds: The relevant text from the policy manual, §9.11: [...] The Debian Policy Manual never got updated in the wake of the Debian systemd Hoo-Hah. It remains written from the viewpoint that System 5 init and rc are the defaults, and that upstart is a novelty addendum. Several peo

Fixing the Debian Policy Manual to finally reflect changes from 2014 (was: "Is missing SysV-init support a bug?" on debian-devel)

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Robert Edmonds: The relevant text from the policy manual, §9.11: [...] Ansgar Burchardt: Was that changed since the default init system was changed? It pretty much still reads like Policy still assumes that sysvinit is the default init system. It also still mentions upstart in 9.11.1; wil

Re: Bug#835520: Policy 9.3.1 is inaccurate to the point of being harmful

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Sam Hartman: Hi. As part of reviewing an issue for the technical committee, I just read policy section 9.3 in its entirety. Section 9.3.1 really seems to be showing its age. That section covers runlevels and the sequencing numbers after S and K in rc.d links without reference to dependency-b

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-08-26 19:53, Wookey wrote: After Stretch there may not be that many sysvinit users, but I think that 2 releases is the minimum sensible period to maintain support for such a siginificant change. But it seems that this discussion does not consider if sysvinit support in the conntrackd p

Nutty systemd package dependencies

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Simon McVittie: Once per thread about systemd, I point out that dbus-daemon links to both libapparmor and libselinux - which results in at least one useless library for literally everyone with dbus installed, since "major" LSMs don't stack, so nobody can possibly be using both AppArmor and SE

Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Bart Schouten: Personally I do not run a non-SystemD system, [...] Then please spell the name correctly. It is no more "SystemD" than inetd is "INetD" or rsyslogd is "RSysLogD". It is "systemd". You'll be doing yourself a favour. For better or for worse, the mis-spelling has become a shi

Re: Nutty systemd package dependencies

2016-08-28 Thread James Cowgill
On 28/08/16 12:43, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Simon McVittie: > >> Once per thread about systemd, I point out that dbus-daemon links to >> both libapparmor and libselinux - which results in at least one >> useless library for literally everyone with dbus installed, since >> "major" LSMs do

Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Arturo Borrero González: * systemd is starting to drop support for some sysvinit mechanisms [https://sources.debian.net/src/systemd/231-4/debian/systemd.NEWS/] Don't employ such thinking. It is a mistake; in two ways no less. Close on the heels of the Debian Technical Committee's decision

Re: systemd package dependencies

2016-08-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 28.08.2016 um 13:43 schrieb Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: > Simon McVittie: > >> Once per thread about systemd, I point out that dbus-daemon links to >> both libapparmor and libselinux - which results in at least one >> useless library for literally everyone with dbus installed, since >> "major" L

libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The Wanderer: IMO this level of integration between things which are not mutually interdependent is a minor bug in itself, but none of the maintainers are going to agree with me on that. Actually, they might. But this is a facet of the Debian build system in general, and not specific to sy

libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Simon McVittie: You mean like libsystemd, which looks in /run to see whether systemd is in use, talks to it if it is, and returns some suitable error code (-ENOSYS?) if it isn't? :-) Here's interesting for you. (-: Here's libsystemd and Arturo Borrero Gonzalez's code that calls it. Please

Re: libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-08-28 at 09:11, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The Wanderer: > >> IMO this level of integration between things which are not mutually >> interdependent is a minor bug in itself, but none of the >> maintainers are going to agree with me on that. > > Actually, they might. But this is

Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch (dbus-x11)

2016-08-28 Thread Simon McVittie
I'm about to do a mass-bug-filing against packages that mention dbus-x11 in their dependencies, or dbus-launch in their code, asking maintainers to adjust their dependencies to make dbus-x11 optional. My goal is that users can install the major desktop tasks in stretch (GNOME, KDE, etc.) with eithe

Bug#835817: ITP: live-tasks -- Live environment support

2016-08-28 Thread Ana Custura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ana Custura * Package name: live-tasks Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Ana Custura * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Live environment support This metapackage installs recommended packages and documentation

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-08-17 22:05, ni...@thykier.net wrote: > Hi, > > Like last release, we are doing a roll call for porters of all release > architectures. If you are an active porter behind one of the [release Does it really concerns *all* release architectures? Traditionally amd64 and i386 have been grant

Re: Bug#835520: Policy 9.3.1 is inaccurate to the point of being harmful

2016-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:15:35AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Sam Hartman: > >Hi. As part of reviewing an issue for the technical committee, I just read > >policy section 9.3 in its entirety. > >Section 9.3.1 really seems to be showing its age. That section covers > >runlevels and

Re: libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 août 2016 15:21 CEST, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  : >> You mean like libsystemd, which looks in /run to see whether systemd >> is in use, talks to it if it is, and returns some suitable error >> code (-ENOSYS?) if it isn't? :-) >> > Here's interesting for you. (-: > > Here's libsystemd and A

Re: libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 02:21:47PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Simon McVittie: > >You mean like libsystemd, which looks in /run to see whether systemd is in > >use, talks to it if it is, and returns some suitable error code (-ENOSYS?) > >if it isn't? :-) > > Here's interesting for yo

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Bart Schouten
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard schreef op 28-08-2016 13:56: Bart Schouten: Personally I do not run a non-SystemD system, [...] Then please spell the name correctly. It is no more "SystemD" than inetd is "INetD" or rsyslogd is "RSysLogD". It is "systemd". You'll be doing yourself a favour. For

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-08-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > I think that one measure to improve the current situation is that, for > the people doing NMUs, to orphan the package when the number of NMUs > exceeds for example 3 or 5 in a row, or 1 year since the oldest NM

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Bart Schouten wrote: > > You'll be doing yourself a favour. For better or for worse, the > > mis-spelling has become a shibboleth by which people tend to recognize > > mischievous pot-stirrers at a glance. > > Oh please. > > You will now demonstrate your

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Bart Schouten
Philipp Kern schreef op 28-08-2016 12:41: http://ral-arturo.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-conntrackd-in-debian-is-better-with.html I am sorry I allowed myself to be drawn into this. That "severely broken init script" is thus nothing more serious than any other script out there, and the "very bad

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Bart Schouten
Andrey Rahmatullin schreef op 28-08-2016 22:06: On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Bart Schouten wrote: > You'll be doing yourself a favour. For better or for worse, the > mis-spelling has become a shibboleth by which people tend to recognize > mischievous pot-stirrers at a glance. Oh p

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bart Schouten > You will now demonstrate your superiority by claiming you know the > better spelling? It has nothing to do with superiority. It's just that it's a tad tiring to see it misspelled, just like it gets tiring to see people write Micro$oft and other similar «funny» misspellings.

Re: libsystemd [was: Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?]

2016-08-28 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2016-08-28 06:26] Adam Borowski > > part text/plain2020 > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 10:33:36AM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > > I hugely support idea of dynamically loading libsystemd. > > > > > > Please don't, no. While I do think packages should keep sysvinit > > > sup

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-08-28 16:11, Bart Schouten wrote: Unnamed issues that are made to appear HUGE. And they are so simple and so small, a child could do it. (I like did that sort of thing when I was 14 or 15). (But it was like assembler and pascal and writing interrupt handlers and being awesome ;-)). Then

Re: libsystemd [was: Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?]

2016-08-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Dmitry Bogatov writes: > Not to start flame or to advertize anything/anyone, but why to integrate > with 'runit' init system, your program should support foreground > operation and logging on stdout, and to integrate with systemd, it > should link with library? You should *also* support foregrou

libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Russ Allbery: All other init systems except upstart [...] Psst! * https://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-daemon-readiness-protocol-problems.html#Choice

Re: libsystemd [was: Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?]

2016-08-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 août 2016 05:00 CEST, Russ Allbery  : > upstart supports a similar mechanism via the -Z flag, but it's (IMO) a > little less clean: the process sends itself a SIGSTOP when it's ready, and > then lets the init system send it a SIGCONT. This does work, but I don't > like it as much; pausing f

Bug#835899: ITP: node-object-assign -- Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine

2016-08-28 Thread Sruthi Chandran
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sruthi Chandran X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-object-assign Version : 4.1.0 Upstream Author : Sindre Sorhus (sindresorhus.com) * URL : https://github.com/sindresorhus/object-assign#readme * Lic