Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Systemd or the highway.

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
By emailing each of the above email mailing lists, it's not hard to guess who you are. It is sad. It is in your interests (for sanity, to stop your tsunami of loss of respect, etc) to simply stop. Take a holiday. Come back in a time (weeks, months) that provides for you to return to communicati

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This is called projection. The poster evidently has a very hard case of it. "The world is so mean. I didn't get what I want. So I'm going to keep crying publicly and say a bunch of untrue and severe exaggeratons." Oh well, hopefully time will heal... Zenaan On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > Ca

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Uwe Storbeck
Ian Jackson writes: > What my TC text, as adopted in Matthew's proposal, does is to answer > the question: what happens if the work is not done ? When you assume the work is not done then there will be packages which do not support all init systems and depend (directly or indirectly) on certain of

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Sam Kuper
Ansgar, Either you are trolling or genuinely misunderstanding. Whichever it is, I hope this sorts it out for you. On 03/03/2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: >> For me the answer is: We should preserve diversity and freedom of >> choice, at the cost of functionality. Making t

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Once again, you rant multiple lists whilst hiding who you are. I am Zenaan Harkness. I have some (not all) strongly held views. As an aside, I shall use systemd and have tried a few times now, but have a technical issue or two with my setup when using systemd, which I need to find time to solve f

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Can't do it all myself. Debian was created by 1000s of people. The systemd people take over. They then say all anti-systemd debate is trlling or spm, and that anyone that doesn't like systemd has to go make their own linux distribution by themselves, no matter the fact that they, the systemd peo

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Systemd or the highway.

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
So because systemd people won, now after 13 years I have to leave and find another distro. This is BS. The systemd people do this is every single distro they take over. It is their way or the highway. I absolutely hate you systemd people. --- jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: From: Jerry Stuckle

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
In the end all law is interpreted, believe me. Let us all go with this GR. Nikolaus, you do good work on OpenRC. A sane, traditional style init (doesn't try to take over the system, isn't infinite lines of root running code long), as it stands now that may all be for nothing. Systemd has every maj

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
I myself do not like systemd either. Why don't I go use some other distro since a vote was won on some corner mailing list by a grand total of 4 people infavor and 4 people against about one week ago?? Well: Debian is the universal operating system. I shouldn't have to. Everyone, here it is a

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Sune Vuorela writes: > On 2014-02-28, Matthew Vernon wrote: >> 2. Loose coupling of init systems >> >> In general, software may not require a specific init system to be >> pid 1. The exceptions to this are as follows: > > Hi > > I'm not fully sure about the implications if we vote this in. >

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Can the GR proposal please be thirded, forthed, and fifth'd please. There is alot of feet dragging with all this debate. The general resolution proposal is good. It has been signed by two debian developers, it needs three more, please sign it.

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 11:39:40AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Kurt Roeckx writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init > systems"): > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 02:50:00PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > That doesn't contradict the GR. If the GR passes we have two > > > resolutions:

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2014: Call for nominations

2014-03-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:48:16AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the 2014 DPL election. Ok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://l

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2014: Call for nominations

2014-03-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:38:06AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Let's try this again: > I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the 2014 DPL election. Ok Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 2 March 2014 23:59, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:22:46PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 07:15:09PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> > Logind requires systemd. >> >> This is false, and therefore the rest of the question is irrelevant. > > I think the poin

Re: Ian Jackson, could you fork Debian? (was: RE: git is slavery! (Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems (Why won't emails go through to the list?)

2014-03-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Arnold, On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:33:21AM -0800, Arnold Bird wrote: > What this > discussion proves is that debian needs to be forked.The > systemd/gnome/redhat camp constantly derideds the idea that Linux is > about freedom and choice.(I've been around for awhile, freedom and choice > use

Ian Jackson, could you fork Debian? (was: RE: git is slavery! (Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems (Why won't emails go through to the list?)

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
What this discussion proves is that debian needs to be forked.The systemd/gnome/redhat camp constantly derideds the idea that Linux is about freedom and choice.(I've been around for awhile, freedom and choice usedto be the bylines of linux fans). They mock anyone'salternative and more traditional o

git is slavery! (Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ansgar, thanks for bringing back some fun in this discussion! On Montag, 3. März 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > You might be interested in the discussion in #727708. There it was > pointed out several times that these are not the only options. haha, *lol*. Thats a very useful pointer indeed!

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:15:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init > systems"): > > Since, in my opinion, this question is all about how the project wants to > > govern itself and how we want to handle assigning responsibility for

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Ian, Ian Jackson writes: > It answers this question: Suppose the work is not done. Ultimately > then we would have to drop either (a) GNOME or (b) non-systemd init > systems, and non-Linux kernels. What choice should we make ? You might be interested in the discussion in #727708. There it w

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"): > Since, in my opinion, this question is all about how the project wants to > govern itself and how we want to handle assigning responsibility for work I don't think this is the right way to look at it. We are a v

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"): > ]] Russ Allbery > (Dropped DAM and personal Ccs) (Dropped -project) > The previous decision does say that it is replaced completely by the > text of such a position statement and I do note that the proposed G

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"): > I believe the point of contention is that Ian seems to imply that due to > the way that the wrote the GR clause, *any* GR related to init would > automatically nullify the TC's decision about the default init sys

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Kurt Roeckx writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"): > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 02:50:00PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > That doesn't contradict the GR. If the GR passes we have two > > resolutions: > > > > 11th Feb as modified by GR: sysvinit as default, loose coupl

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Barth writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"): > Iain Lane (la...@debian.org) [140302 19:28]: > > The rest of the discussion notwithstanding, where do you think that > > > 11th Feb as modified by GR: sysvinit as default, loose coupling > >

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Tagliamonte writes ("Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems"): > Sorry, Ian. I overreated. Apology accepted. This whole business is quite difficult for everyone and I too haven't managed to always keep my temper :-/. Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vot

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Steve Langasek writes: > Given the ambiguity about whether this GR vacates the earlier TC decision, I > think it would be best to simply include in your GR text a statement that > > The Debian project reaffirms the decision of the TC to make systemd the > default init system for jessie.

Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2014: Call for nominations

2014-03-03 Thread Gergely Nagy
I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the 2014 DPL election. -- |8] pgpPLYFFD5GpK.pgp Description: PGP signature