Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/24/2013 10:45 AM, Uoti Urpala wrote: I think you'd basically need a completely separate logind package for non-systemd systems. And if you think this is work that must be done, then it is YOUR responsibility to do it. It's not the systemd maintainers' responsibility to implement new

security-aware-resolver virtual package (Was: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server recursive-name-server))

2013-10-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi James, since the authoritative-name-server idea was rejected by the list, I was going to propose alternative: security-aware-resolver The definition from RFC4033: Security-Aware Resolver: An entity acting in the role of a resolver (defined in section 2.4 of [RFC1034]) that

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server recursive-name-server)

2013-10-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013, at 20:16, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 22/10/13 09:18, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: I would suggest: caching-name-server *-dns-server would be better, as it is specific enough to avoid name collision in the future. JFTR that should not be any name collisions as the

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Brian May brian at microcomaustralia.com.au writes: This looks like the dependency is kernel/platform dependant: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-settings-daemon has: dep: systemd [not hppa, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k, powerpcspe, sh4, sparc64] That’s just

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 04:22:50PM +1100, Brian May wrote: On 24 October 2013 07:30, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.netwrote: In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. This looks like the dependency is kernel/platform dependant: dep: systemd [not hppa, hurd-i386,

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: just recall the most epic flamewar in Debian's history), Peh it wasn't *that* epic. I recall some truly awful ones in around 2006 to which the systemd ones pale in comparison. (Do not interpret this as a challenge.) -- To

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: And I for one heavily use vservers It's a professional shame of mine that we are still trying to get rid of some old vserver instances at $WORK. I am astonished to see that you are still using them. I didn't think they'd rebased

Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:27:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So first of all, how hard it is to split is irrelevant. This is work that must be done, and Debian should not accept excuses for it not being done. I have a lot of respect for the Debian systemd maintainers and I think it should

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: [...] If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support

Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 24/10/2013 10:54, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:27:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So first of all, how hard it is to split is irrelevant. This is work that must be done, and Debian should not accept excuses for it not being done. I have a lot of respect for

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: And I for one heavily use vservers It's a professional shame of mine that we are still trying to get rid of some old vserver instances at $WORK. lxc is still

Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thibaut Paumard The split has already been done, hasn't it? Merely installing the systemd package does not make systemd the active init system on the machine. You need to do it yourself or install the systemd-sysv package for that to happen. No, that's not a split. That's a set of

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 October 2013 10:59, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: And I for one heavily use vservers It's a professional shame of mine that we are still trying

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:46 +1100, Brian May wrote: On 24 October 2013 11:09, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally (mostly because of the above point), but if I understand it

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: And I for one heavily use vservers It's a professional shame of mine that we are still trying to get

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:46:49AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: lxc is still nowhere close to vserver (or openvz) functionality. OpenVZ is in mainline Linux now. You'll need to wait for Linux 3.12 in Debian, as we can't enable CONFIG_USER_NS before then, and I don't know whether the vzctl

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-10-23 22:22, Brian May wrote: This looks like the dependency is kernel/platform dependant: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-settings-daemon [1] has: dep: systemd [not hppa, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k, powerpcspe, sh4, sparc64] So doesn't break Gnome where

[ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage It does a faithful import of the package history from snapshot.debian.org. There is some agressive caching built-in, and a bit of logic to rebuild the history graph from changelogs. It is also able to

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org wrote: What do you mean by holding hostile root. ? http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC) are upstream now, and should be ready for jessie. Until then if you do not trust containers then the best choice is to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 October 2013 14:18, Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage It does a faithful import of the package history from snapshot.debian.org. There is some agressive caching built-in, and a

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Marvin Renich
* Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [131024 05:39]: ]] Steve Langasek On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: [...] If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, this might be a

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My apologies, I overreacted. Oh holy s...sunshine (I have to be

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/24/2013 04:51 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steve Langasek On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: [...] If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, this might be a worrying trend, as

Re: OpenVZ (was: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/24/2013 06:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: And I for one heavily use vservers It's a professional shame

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Le 24/10/2013 15:57, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : On 24 October 2013 14:18, Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage Is it compatible with Ian's dgit ? I only know what dgit does from reading

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My apologies, I overreacted. Clear critic with real background - many of us have the same experience - (how many times did my system break in the last years due to GNome?) are silence

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 09:49 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two in order to force adoption of systemd. There are obviously others who do not believe this. If it is true, however, I would consider it sufficient justification to

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Kitterman
Marvin Renich m...@renich.org wrote: * Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [131024 05:39]: ]] Steve Langasek On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: [...] If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends

Re: lxc / vserver / openvz (was: systemd flamage)

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:40:04PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org wrote: What do you mean by holding hostile root. ? http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC) are upstream now, and should be ready for jessie.

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adrian wrote: Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so there is that. Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole AFAICS. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Uoti Urpala
Thomas Goirand wrote: We've been reading again and again from systemd supporters that it's modular, and that we can use only a subset of it if we like. Now, we're reading a very different thing: that it's modular *but* we need to re-implement every bit of it so that the modularity becomes

Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. This would

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:40 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org wrote: What do you mean by holding hostile root. ? http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC) are upstream now, and should be ready for jessie. Until

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/24/2013 05:05 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Adrian wrote: Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so there is that. Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole AFAICS. Yes, I just read what the release team put in their announcement and was

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:00:42 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:29:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes, I just read what the release team put in their announcement and was repeating what one of the proposals were. / | Proposed Release Goals | == | | The call for release goals has finished and we

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 10/24/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: This would mean: [...] * Tweak CD and installer builds: + change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) + Add an explicitly-named Gnome CD#1 + Remove the explicitly-named XFCE

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 24/10/2013 17:08, Uoti Urpala a écrit : Surely you won't claim that tools depending on systemd as init is an argument to not use systemd as init! It's an argument for not depending on those tools, since we don't want to (and can't) rely on systemd being the init system. Regards.

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread James McCoy
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. ... Pros: * CD#1 will work again without size worries * Smaller, simpler desktop * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) * Does not depend on

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/13 at 15:18 +0200, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage It does a faithful import of the package history from snapshot.debian.org. There is some agressive caching built-in, and a bit of logic to

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 24/10/13 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's change

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 October 2013 15:15, Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Le 24/10/2013 15:57, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : On 24 October 2013 14:18, Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage Is it

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:05 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so there is that. Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole AFAICS. I just wondered... when and how is this going to be decided? I mean, whether

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some unsolved issues in that regard, which is a

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 October 2013 17:38, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard rumors (sorry not to be more specific)

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Zlatan Todoric
But then again you have Flashback mode [0]. And just bashing GNOME DE for systemd and GNOME Classic is not good enough point because probably the largest user base of Debian user use GNOME. This comment should not be seen as pro-GNOME as XFCE is also decent DE which I also admire. Also I have

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Zlatan Todoric
Sorry for not setting link to [0] Here it is https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeFlashback On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Zlatan Todoric zlatan.todo...@gmail.comwrote: But then again you have Flashback mode [0]. And just bashing GNOME DE for systemd and GNOME Classic is not good enough point

Re: OpenVZ (was: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:16 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 10/24/2013 06:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: And I for one heavily use vservers It's a professional shame of mine that we are still trying to get rid of

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:30 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Now, let me know - is this the new way of silencing critical voices? No. But it is a gigantic leap forward in the culture of our community. Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and more pissed off by

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: My

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 oct 13, 16:40:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's change the

Bug#727620: ITP: dh-virtualenv -- Wrap build python packages using virtualenv

2013-10-24 Thread Jyrki Pulliainen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jyrki Pulliainen jy...@dywypi.org * Package name: dh-virtualenv Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Jyrki Pulliainen jy...@spotify.com * URL : http://www.github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/13 at 17:40 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 24 October 2013 17:38, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time,

Re: lxc / vserver / openvz (was: systemd flamage)

2013-10-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:40:04PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org wrote: What do you mean by holding hostile root. ? http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC)

GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
[Another new topic, sorry -develites] On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard rumors

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 18:08 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 10/24/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: This would mean: [...] * Tweak CD and installer builds: + change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) + Add an

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:40:48 +0100 Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:31:52 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org wrote: On 24/10/13 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Please keep debian-accessibility in Cc for accessibility matters, otherwise concerned people won't be able to provide information :) Neil Williams, le Thu 24 Oct 2013 18:08:56 +0100, a écrit : On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:31:52 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org wrote: On 24/10/13 at

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's change the

Re: GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Hashem Nasarat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNOME can run on BSD. This page documents the procedure done by one user. https://wiki.gnome.org/TingweiLan/FreeBSD On 10/24/2013 01:16 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: [Another new topic, sorry -develites] On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Le 24/10/2013 18:24, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : On 24/10/13 at 15:18 +0200, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage It does a faithful import of the package history from snapshot.debian.org. There is some

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Brian May (br...@microcomaustralia.com.au): On 24 October 2013 11:09, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally (mostly because of the above point), but if I understand it right, it takes over the whole cgroups

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wookey
+++ Neil Williams [2013-10-24 18:06 +0100]: On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:40:48 +0100 Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Le 24/10/2013 18:34, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : On 24 October 2013 15:15, Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Le 24/10/2013 15:57, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : On 24 October 2013 14:18, Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages

Re: GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: [Another new topic, sorry -develites] On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/10/13 17:31, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some unsolved issues in that regard, which is a problem since GNOME

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/10/13 16:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I haven't tested GNOME on kfreebsd-* for a long time now, but I assume that the package works if it has been successfully built, doesn't it? I believe the effect of not having systemd-logind is that the features for which GNOME uses

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Jackson Doak
+1 to xfce, but it might be worth using a nicer theme than the current xfce one. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: On 24/10/13 17:31, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long

Bug#727629: general: CPU fan always on (high speed)

2013-10-24 Thread Felipe
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? It's a fresh install (Wheezy and Jessie). There was no changes on the system, and the fan works on high speed, with a normal

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Marvin Renich I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two in order to force adoption of systemd. You're aware that GNOME and systemd upstreams are two completely distinct groups with (AFAIK) very little overlap between them, right? Even if one assume that they

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand On 10/24/2013 04:51 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: [...] If GNOME decides they want the DBus interfaces from systemd, that does not put any obligation on systemd or the systemd maintainers to split those bits of functionality out of systemd. We've been reading again and

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 24/10/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. I agree. I'm using it happily for more than a year and it mostly works. Less mature than Gnome 2.x, which i still miss, but powerful and functional. Pros: * CD#1 will work again without

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:25:12PM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Brian May (br...@microcomaustralia.com.au): On 24 October 2013 11:09, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally (mostly because of the above point),

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Jackson Doak
XFCE is short of maintainers, both upstream and debian, but 4.12 is expected to be released sometime in the next 6 months. That said, everything both debian and upstream is stable, and a number of 4.11 development release packages are able to be uploaded to experimental if more people come onboard

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:35:30PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: On 24/10/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. I agree. I'm using it happily for more than a year and it mostly works. Less mature than Gnome 2.x, which i still miss, but

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net writes: Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about systemd, GNOME or similar. In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. I'm missing a key bit of context here. Does gnome-settings-daemon just require that

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:33:34PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I know of my own tickets I've reported upstream and how outrageously GNOME deals with some critical things... Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean with outrageously? Do you mean someone

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two in order to force adoption of systemd. There are obviously others who GNOME is not. And I'm speaking as a GNOME release team member. A video of GNOME 3.10

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 21:42 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean with outrageously? Yeah I could, but this already turned far too much into a flame war. There's e.g. the bug that Evolution silently corrupts eMails, which is known now

Bug#727644: ITP: snap-byob -- ITP: snap-byob -- A block-based drag-and-drop programming environment

2013-10-24 Thread Nicolas Guilbert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Guilbert nico...@ange.dk * Package name: snap-byob Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Jens Mönig j...@moenig.org * URL : http://snap.berkeley.edu * License : AGPL Programming Lang: Javascript Description :

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away from here, since the flames do not need even more coals to burn higher.

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:37 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away from here,

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: And this is not just an issue because of people not wanting to use systemd init, but also because systemd init *can't* run in a container. Whoah, that's not true: sudo systemd-nspawn -bD ~/images/fedora-19 works just fine :)

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now

2013-10-24 Thread Mark - Syminet
This is a move to SABOTAGE linux as an OS. -- Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:30:41PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi. Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about systemd, GNOME or similar. In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. I

Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-24 Thread Roger Lynn
On 24/10/13 03:00, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: Well, that's one more reason the init system and the dbus services should be separated out in the packaging. Some of the services consume

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Since some people have demanded to drop GNOME as default desktop in my systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME thread the following popped up in my mind: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. Do we need to

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
I agree with the people who suggest getting rid of the concept of a 'default' desktop but I don't know how practical it is since not all users will be capable of choosing a desktop. So we need to develop some guidance for them. In the netinst image and web pages a list of desktop blends would need

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Lynn ro...@rilynn.me.uk writes: How often is the choice of default desktop re-evaluated, and how is this done? We have an argument about it at least once every release cycle. One of the problems with the recurring argument is that we don't have a good decision-making criteria. Another

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 03:33, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.netwrote: Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and more pissed off by GNOME _upstream_ . They continuously try to push their agenda through and force their blessings (most of the time broken, e.g.

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 06:24, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: - GNOME 3.10 runs on OpenBSD (probably good to repeat this :P) If I understand this correctly, upstream Gnome 3.10 will run fine on OpenBSD. However the Debian packages won't work on OpenBSD, as gnome-settings-daemon depends on

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net writes: But do we really need a default desktop environment? There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an installer. Even if you force the user to pick

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an installer. Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of options, users will tend to pick the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an installer. Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 06:48 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I agree with the people who suggest getting rid of the concept of a 'default' desktop but I don't know how practical it is since not all users will be capable of choosing a desktop. I don't think user's are that stupid. Just think about the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:08 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of options, users will tend to pick the first on the list. Randomise the order (every time). And note that I wouldn't suggest to add all things that can be vaguely considered a desktop

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrei wrote: On Jo, 24 oct 13, 16:40:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an installer. […] If you need to eliminate the concept of

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