Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 00:54 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 22:40 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Oct 31, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > When elogind enters testing there would be many more people > > > running > > > Debian with sysvinit/elogind. elogind is needed for desk

Bug#943940: ITP: pytest-astropy-header -- Include basic system dependencies in the header of pytest output

2019-11-01 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-as...@lists.debian.org * Package name: pytest-astropy-header Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Thomas Robitaille * URL : https://g

Re: "the" cloud [Integration with systemd]

2019-11-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Thomas, Thomas Goirand - 01.11.19, 01:26:58 CET: > On 10/31/19 5:13 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > It is similar with "the" cloud. > > Why is there quotes around "the", and why do you think there's only a > single instance of a cloud out there? Well exactly for the reason that there is no

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Adam D. Barratt - 01.11.19, 07:47:48 CET: > On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 00:54 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 22:40 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Oct 31, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > When elogind enters testing there would be many more people > > > > running > > > > Debian

Re: tomcat9 using systemd specific stuff is now vendor lock-in [was: BITS from the DPL For September/October 2019]

2019-11-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 01, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Instead of using well understood parameters to adduser, which we've been > using for decades, and understand well the parameters, systemd provides Personally I never remember the exact semantics of many adduser/addgroup parameters and I have to double check the

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 31 octobre 2019 17:51 -07, Russ Allbery : > I think we should adopt sysusers.d fragments as the preferred mechanism > for creating system users (with some rules, such as a standard for how to > name the users and a requirement that the UID be specified as - unless one > goes through the normal

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 01.11.19, 09:25:07 CET: > Adam D. Barratt - 01.11.19, 07:47:48 CET: > > On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 00:54 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 22:40 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > On Oct 31, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > When elogind enters testing there wo

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 06:47 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 00:54 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 22:40 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Oct 31, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > > > Marco, I think your information about elogind is not up-to-date: >

Re: BITS from the DPL For September/October 2019

2019-11-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 31 octobre 2019 21:49 +01, Thomas Goirand : > The idea has always been that it would be on best-effort from people who > volunteer, without forcing anyone to do any sysv-rc support if they > don't feel like it. What you describe goes along this line. I have raised my concern about this a few m

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Ansgar
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Of course that raises the question on what relationship with a > downstream like Devuan to aim for. Debian has so many downstream distributions, one more fringe distribution doesn't make any difference in relationships with downstream distributions. Besides that, fro

Re: "the" cloud [Integration with systemd]

2019-11-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/1/19 9:21 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > However, there are only a few > really large public cloud providers and most of them are US companies. I would count at least OVH as a "really large public cloud provider", yet they aren't originally from the US. There's also countless small OpenSta

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/1/19 3:16 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thomas Goirand writes: > >> ...the bigger question is: why systemd-sysusers is part of systemd, and >> not a standalone thing, which we could make an essential package. If we >> want it to be part of a package standard toolkit, it means systemd >> becomes

Bug#943942: ITP: cds-healpix-java -- The CDS HEALPix library in Java

2019-11-01 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-j...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-as...@lists.debian.org * Package name: cds-healpix-java Version : none yet Upstream Author : Francois Xavier Pineau * URL : https://

Re: doxygen 1.8.16 is ready for unstable, 10+ packages will FTBFS on amd64

2019-11-01 Thread Paolo Greppi
Hi Gard, see below On 25/10/19 11:45, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Hi, > > Paolo Greppi writes: > >> The 10 remaining packages all fail with latex-related errors. >> Unfortunately I know nothing about latex so I cant' help with those. >> But I filed bugs or updated the existing open bug: >> - ccfits

Bug#943944: ITP: python-ospurge -- client-side tool to delete all resources of an OpenStack project

2019-11-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-ospurge Version : 2.0.0+2019.10.11.git.990287677b Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://opendev.org/x/ospurge * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Des

Re: tomcat9 using systemd specific stuff is now vendor lock-in [was: BITS from the DPL For September/October 2019]

2019-11-01 Thread Mathieu Parent
Le ven. 1 nov. 2019 à 00:48, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > > On 10/31/19 9:56 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > This isn't limited to just shipping an init script, have a look at the > > tomcat9 9.0.13-1 changelog entry which dropped the sysvinit script. > > Continuing to support an init script also m

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 17:51:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think we should adopt sysusers.d fragments as the preferred mechanism > for creating system users I have been tempted to write a small reimplementation of systemd-sysusers suitable for init-less containers and sysvinit systems, so that

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Alf Gaida
On 01.11.19 02:33, Thomas Goirand wrote: ...the bigger question is: why systemd-sysusers is part of systemd, and not a standalone thing, which we could make an essential package. If we want it to be part of a package standard toolkit, it means systemd becomes an essential package, which isn't

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Ansgar
Simon McVittie writes: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 17:51:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think we should adopt sysusers.d fragments as the preferred mechanism >> for creating system users > > I have been tempted to write a small reimplementation of systemd-sysusers > suitable for init-less containe

Bug#943948: ITP: erofs-utils -- Utilities for EROFS File System

2019-11-01 Thread Gao Xiang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gao Xiang * Package name: erofs-utils Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Li Guifu , Miao Xie , Gao Xiang * URL : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang:

Re: Q: what's the blocker for firefox-esr update migrates to testing

2019-11-01 Thread Aron Xu
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 1:59 AM Carsten Schoenert wrote: > > Am 31.10.19 um 16:28 schrieb Aron Xu: > > This could be a reminder that we should start thinking about whether > > we want to keep armel as a release architecture for bullseye. > > No, but some X-based applications might simply get exclud

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 04:32:28PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > That's true SO FAR. The fact remains that systemd has *tons* and > *tons* of new features which to date, aren't yet getting used in huge > numbers of open source software packages or in Debian packaging --- YET. I think tha

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat writes: > An alternative for many system users is to use the DynamicUser feature > of systemd. Yeah, I completely agree, and we haven't even started talking about that yet. This is what I mean by ten or more facilities like this that we probably want to approach from the same phi

Re: Q: what's the blocker for firefox-esr update migrates to testing

2019-11-01 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Am 01.11.19 um 14:55 schrieb Aron Xu: I'm not implying to remove it altogether, but it could be moved it to debian-ports, even RPi4 is alreay aarch64 capable. This is not the question (of course arm64 != armel) and I don't see why a still well maintained and working architecture should move to

Re: BITS from the DPL For September/October 2019

2019-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/31/19 8:07 PM, Alf Gaida wrote: > I read it the same way - and also a logical consequece: if these > patches lead to bugs, the maintainer should not be forced to fix the > mess. I for myself would just remove buggy things that nobody care in a > certain amount of time. That leads to the q

Re: BITS from the DPL For September/October 2019

2019-11-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 7:06 AM Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > That leads to the question how long it takes until these bugs are being > noticed. > > I am definitely not going to test init scripts properly when the systemd > units are exactly doing what they are supposed to. The number of people > not usin