Re: Please drop/replace the use of the term "diversity"

2019-11-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 11:27:13 +, Chris Lamb wrote: > May I gently request we replace the use of the word "diversity" > throughout the "init systems and systemd" General Resolution prior to > it being subject to a plebiscite? Thank you for raising this, Chris. I agree. I have been uncomforta

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 01 Dec 2019 at 11:13:46 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Simon Richter writes: > > Right, but the dependency chain is there to make sure the package is > > usable on systemd systems > > My recollection is that these dependencies are mostly about either making > sure user sessions are available

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 01 Dec 2019 at 22:02:31 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > In that particular case, the user session must be available to allow > activation of gsettingsd via dbus There is no such thing as gsettingsd. Presumably you mean dconf-service (which is conceptually one of many backends, although in pr

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 01 Dec 2019 at 22:14:06 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > It's bin:libpam-systemd that pulls bin:systemd-sysv (the package that makes > systemd the init on the system), not bin:systemd. Here it's dbus-user-session > that pulls it because it needs a logind (dunno if it works with elogind) >

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 02 Dec 2019 at 04:26:53 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > My expectation was that with systemd, dbus activation functionality > would have moved into the main systemd binary for better process > tracking and to avoid code duplication with the other activation methods. Yes ish, but on an opt-in

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 02 Dec 2019 at 00:28:54 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Wasn't there a plan to add support for containers managed through > systemd that have filtered access to the system dbus, or is that just a > special case of a service unit? As a general rule, "heavyweight" containers with their own ini

Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, we need to Understand Apt Dependencies

2019-12-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 08 Dec 2019 at 09:37:07 +, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > it seems like there is an alternative — have them provided by > a different package. Probably one package providing quite a few of > them. It'd need some way to only try to start installed daemons, but > that sounds solvable. Not o

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 23:54:16 +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think when people personally feel excluded/diminished/pick your term > then it's appropriate to work on how to frame things to see how to make > them feel welcome (e.g. if someone is more comfortable being referred > to by they, then

Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue

2020-03-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 23:06:55 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > another option would be 'unstable-proposed' (or whatever) where packages get > uploaded to, and which only gets moved to 'unstable' if they don't fail > piuparts, > autopkgtests (plain build tests) and so forth... Do you mean this to b

Re: New option for the RMS/FSF GR: reaffirm the values of the majority

2021-04-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 03 Apr 2021 at 21:46:08 +0200, someone claiming to be Enrico Zini wrote: > We explicitly refuse to acknowledge irrelevant political issues I was surprised to read this apparently coming from Enrico, particularly since it doesn't seem consistent with what Enrico has said in other threads re

Re: Draft proposal for resolution process changes

2021-09-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 at 13:56:21 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > In this case the chair surely wouldn't vote to overrule > themselves as that would be a completely nonsensical behaviour, The casting vote cannot be used to select an option that is not in the Schwartz set (loosely: it can only be

Re: GR: Change the resolution process (corrected)

2021-11-25 Thread Simon McVittie
I've lost track of who wrote: > > > Suggest making this "None of the above" instead of "Further discussion" > > > to avoid two different default options for TC decisions vs project > > > decisions. On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 10:28:55 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I would prefer the change to extend al

Re: Draft ballot voting secrecy GR

2022-03-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 18:09:20 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Choice 3: Reaffirm public voting > > > ince we can either have [...] I assume this was meant to start with "Since"? smcv

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 at 19:20:29 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Steve McIntyre writes: > > Many common laptops in the last 5-10 years don't come with wired > > ethernet; it's becoming rarer over time. They ~all need firmware > > loading to get onto the network with wifi. Many now need firmware for

Re: General Resolution: non-free firmware: results

2022-10-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 at 16:34:27 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > I didn't want to inflict work on the debian-cd > team, and I assume that nobody will object if volunteers turn up to help > build/test the free images. If they're built and tested, I'm pretty sure > they'll be published. As one of the pe

Re: source tarballs vs. source from git (was: tag2upload)

2024-06-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 08:53:40 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, June 11, 2024 6:25:02 PM EDT Sean Whitton wrote: > > - it improves the traceability and auditability of our source-only > > uploads, in ways that are particular salient in the wake of xz-utils. > > As I understand it, De

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 15:20:45 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > tag2upload, like dgit, ensures and insists that the git tree you are > uploading corresponds precisely [1] to the generated source package. > > If you base your Debian git maintainer branch on the upstream git (as > you should) and there

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 16:04:34 -, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >Is your position here that if your upstream releases source tarballs > >that intentionally differ from what's in git (notably this is true > >for Autotools `make dist`), then any Good™ maintainer must generate > >their own .orig.tar.* fr

Re: Security review of tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 13:03:04 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2024-06-11 18:39:04, Russ Allbery wrote: > > - Someone in the keyring (either a Debian Developer or a Debian Maintainer > > for a package) uploads a malicious source package but makes it appear > > that the package was uploaded

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]

2024-06-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 15:08:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think it is possible that there will be a handful of packages where > things are significantly more awkward, which might not be able to > adopt tag2upload. This would presumably be the same minority of packages where maintainers use a d

Re: Archive support for *.orig.bundle.* and *.debian.bundle.*

2024-06-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 09:12:56 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I don't think a shallow copy will work generally. Instead you want > to upload the entire upstream git repository as a bundle. I believe this has been specifically ruled out by the ftp team in the past. With a tarball or a shallow b

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 08:52:38 +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > As I understand, the proper way to resolve disagreement over technical > issues is to bring the matter to the Technical Committee. Why are you > proposing a GR instead? The TC can overrule individual developers (§6.1.4 in the Debian

Re: How is the original tarball obtained in tag2upload

2024-06-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 12:26:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Note however: right now you can't do a source-only upload of a new > upstream version, and tag2upload only supports source-only uploads. > So this situation generally won't arise: someone will have had to > upload the orig.tar.gz the old w

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 at 07:54:45 +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > Just include a hash > similar to [1] in the signed tag data Prior art: this is conceptually the same as git-evtag from src:git-evtag. You can see real-world use of git-evtag in the upstream tags (e.g. v0.9.0) of src:bubblewrap. > it might n

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 at 10:02:03 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I do not think it is reasonable that a particular (git?) workflow, specific > to the way *YOU* prefer working, gains special upload rights. This seems to be based on a misconception. tag2upload specifically doesn't require one specific