Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iun 14, 01:56:20, Thomas Goirand wrote: You're not seriously suggesting dpkg would sneak a package on your system behind your back, do you? I believe he's only suggesting that having a package installed with a Conflict: is harder to break (even by mistake) than just some apt

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Matthias (2014.06.26_08:38:09_+0200) Of these, roughly 20% have switched to systemd. And they apparently did not and do not have any problem with it, otherwise we'd hear about it. Here and other places. Quite loudly. Not necessarily. My laptop won't boot with systemd, although other

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not necessarily, anyway) You're not seriously

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:01:00 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: … We have decided to use systemd as the default. … s/We have/The tech-ctte has/. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Guillem Jover: On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:01:00 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: … We have decided to use systemd as the default. … s/We have/The tech-ctte has/. … and everybody else decided to not challenge their resolution, at the very least. Anti-systemd(-author) rants nonwithstanding.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/29/2014 05:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iun 14, 14:33:49, Wookey wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from a separate repo should not be necessary. No need

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 09:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 26 iun 14, 14:33:49, Wookey wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 juin 2014 10:56 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com : systemd-must-die_8_all.deb already conflicts with nine packages: Conflicts: libpam-systemd, live-config-systemd, python-systemd, systemd, systemd-cron, systemd-gui, systemd-shim, systemd-sysv, systemd-ui Why systemd-shim?

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 10:56:24, Svante Signell wrote: The disadvantage with this approach is that you need an entry for every package you don't want installed. No, you want to make use of the support for globs or regexes, see apt_preferences(5). systemd-must-die_8_all.deb already conflicts

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 28 juin 2014 à 11:08 +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit : Why systemd-shim? Do you really need to ask why? There’s systemd in the name, therefore it must be *evil*, man. It has to be part of a conspiracy to take over the world and remove our freedom to make all executables setuid root! --

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 juin 2014 12:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org : Why systemd-shim? Do you really need to ask why? There’s systemd in the name, therefore it must be *evil*, man. It has to be part of a conspiracy to take over the world and remove our freedom to make all executables setuid

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not necessarily, anyway) • aptitude has been known to ignore the view dpkg/apt have on the system, e.g.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Marco d'Itri [2014-06-26 16:29 +0200]: On Jun 26, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from

Re: Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The interesting dependency chain is: Simon, thank you very much for this mail and the two ones following it. Your objectiveness and choice of words in this heated debate is really appreciated! Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Norbert Preining: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrcshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will. Everyone using Gnome -

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 18:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : And logind replacements have not appeared yet, as expected. Because this is a misstatement of the problem. Logind works systemd-shim today. If it works as well as logind without systemd as pid 1 in earlier versions (leading

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:41:17AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 18:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : And logind replacements have not appeared yet, as expected. Because this is a misstatement of the problem. Logind works systemd-shim today. If it works as

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 26 June 2014 01:36, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote: I used the word Insidious as I would have use Stealth, because it's happening slowly, without us noticing, that everything in Debian is being locked with systemd. Soon, we'll have no choice. This is why you should stop fighting: systemd

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrew Shadura: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+sysvinitshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%Y-%mbeenhere=1 Sorry, but this only demonstrates that you don't know what you're talking about. For a comparison

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being aware. Where is this package? I'm not finding it in testing or the pts? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro,

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being aware. Where is this package? I'm not finding it in

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Matthias Urlichs [2014-06-26 11:58 +0200]: Hi, Andrew Shadura: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+sysvinitshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%Y-%mbeenhere=1 Sorry, but this only demonstrates that you

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:45 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Matthias Urlichs [2014-06-26 11:58 +0200]: Hi, Which shows about a change from 'peak sysvinit-core' in mid-april: Mid april Now sysvinit-core:89% 81% systemd-sysv: 6% 19% A question: If you uninstall a

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2014-06-26 12:31 +0200]: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 02:33:49PM +0100, Wookey has been seen typing: +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-26 12:31 +0200]: Not in any official Debian repo unfortunately: http://users.unixforge.de/~tglaser/debs/dists/etch/wtf/Pkgs/mirabilos-support/ Can it be uploaded please?

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from a apt-get install equivs -- ciao, Marco

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2014 02:23 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Norbert Preining
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse dependencies? “Insidious reverse dependencies”? You are

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thomas Goirand: On 06/25/2014 02:23 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 22:01 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: You are insinuating that people are surreptitiously adding dependencies on systemd components their packages don’t need, just so that they get installed on your system to piss you

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other architectures? The interesting dependency chain is: policykit-1 Depends libpam-systemd [linux-any] (degraded

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 20:23 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 24 juin 2014 à 19:57 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit : Are there any chances that some version of policykit-1 could stay free from any *systemd* dependency? PolicyKit needs a session tracking mechanism, and with ConsoleKit

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other architectures? The interesting dependency chain is:

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 19:51, Svante Signell wrote: Looks like consolekit is the package fork if such a thing ever happens. There are still patches, mainly for kFreeBSD, from 2013-2014 in the freedesktop BTS since the last release. When was the Debian switch from consolekit to policykit-1 made?

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 20:03, Svante Signell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Upstream developers in various projects increasingly oppose group-based access, because membership of many desktop stuff groups essentially means can ssh in and do bad things to a local user. For

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thomas Goirand: If you don't like that depencendy, it's your job to offer a patch which supports an alternative to that maintainer. It's not reasonable to tell I'm responsible for all of this. This you was meant to refer to the collective set of people who want a supported

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: Orthogonal to that, startx is basically terrible. It only works because /usr/bin/X is setuid root, and that seems Bad™. Also, if you run it from a virtual console, a locked X screensaver is worthless, because someone can just switch virtual console with

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 25, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: I used the word Insidious as I would have use Stealth, because it's happening slowly, without us noticing, that everything in Debian is being locked with systemd. Soon, we'll have no choice. This is why you should stop fighting: systemd has won.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Norbert Preining
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrcshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will. Everyone using Gnome - and that are a lot of users

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2014-06-25 14:03:20 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: This doesn't change anything else that you point out, but that's why you run startx and then log out of the virtual console. On my workstations and travel machines I have: alias x='startxexit' ...in my ~/.bash_aliases file. Works

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrcshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:22:50AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jun 26, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote:

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 13:20 +, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Gunnar, The new LONG_DESCRIPTIONs start with: The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 juin 2014 à 19:57 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit : Are there any chances that some version of policykit-1 could stay free from any *systemd* dependency? PolicyKit needs a session tracking mechanism, and with ConsoleKit no longer maintained, the only one available is systemd-logind.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Svante, On 06/24/2014 07:57 PM, Svante Signell wrote: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being aware. I'd appreciate if you kept your anti-systemd rants off this list. Thanks! Adrian --

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-07 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Gunnar, On Do 05 Jun 2014 15:33:23 CEST, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Package: mate-desktop-environment Version: 1.8.0+2~bpo70+1 Following up on the thread in the mailing list: are there any reasons for the »strange« package description in mate-desktop-environment (and more) The MATE Desktop

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Mike Gabriel dijo [Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 01:20:59PM +]: A fix for it has been uploaded just now. The new LONG_DESCRIPTIONs start with: The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors

SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-05 Thread Joe Dalton
are there any reasons for the »strange« package description in mate-desktop-environment (and more) The MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. bye Joe Danish Den

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Joe, On Do 05 Jun 2014 14:03:13 CEST, Joe Dalton wrote: are there any reasons for the »strange« package description in mate-desktop-environment (and more) The MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-05 Thread Stefano Karapetsas
On 2014-06-05 15:15, Mike Gabriel wrote: I have adopted this a little self-ironic description from the meta package mate-desktop-environment that has been provided on the upstream package site so far. The description comes from the first message in a forum about the fork:

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: mate-desktop-environment Version: 1.8.0+2~bpo70+1 Following up on the thread in the mailing list: are there any reasons for the »strange« package description in mate-desktop-environment (and more) The MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users,

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-05 Thread Joe Dalton
thanks, I must agree with Gunnar. The self-ironic is fine in the original context (forging), but not in the package descriptions. bye Joe Den tors 5/6/14 skrev Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de: Emne: Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully

SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-03 Thread Joe Dalton
This is great news. Thanks. MATE is for me the best choice. Den tirs 3/6/14 skrev Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de: Emne: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian Til: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: