Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:30:17AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:43:07 +0200, Wouter Verhelst > wrote: > >This has been discussed before and rejected. It makes no sense. > > technically, but a lot of sense if it helps silencing another > instance of an "exchange standard

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:43:07 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >This has been discussed before and rejected. It makes no sense. ... technically, but a lot of sense if it helps silencing another instance of an "exchange standard arguments" discussion about systemd. Greetings Marc --

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 08:22:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:30 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > As long as people choose to strip of dependencies to libsystemd from > > packages like util-linux, avoiding a fork would not work with how Debian > > and Debian based

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/19/18 12:25 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit-core installations. > > Devuan is _not_ Debian. They forked it They *claimed* it was a fork, though in reality Devuan is just

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Ivan Shmakov writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support "): > Ian Jackson writes: > > Please come to debian-init-divers...@chiark.greenend.org.uk. > > Do you plan to also make that list accessible via NNTP (perhaps > via

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-21 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Ian Jackson writes: > KatolaZ writes: >> The problem that spurred this thread is that sysvinit needs a >> maintainer. That’s why some of us are here: our intention is to >> help with maintaining sysvinit in Debian if possible, since we will >> keep maintaining it in Devuan

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 20, Paul Wise wrote: > It might be feasible to introduce nosystemd build profiles to Debian > source packages and then create a shed/bikeshed/PPA (once that > infrastructure exists) that contains rebuilds using that build > profile. That would allow Devuan's libsystemd stripping to be >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 06:54:07PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Should Debian also support "noalsa", "noavahi", "nocups", > > "nopulseaudio", "nosysvinit", "nodbus", "nopam", "nowayland", > > Are alsa, avahi, cups, pulseaudio, sysvinit, dbus, pam and wayland all > similar in scope to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 06:54:07PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: > > Should Debian also support "noalsa", "noavahi", "nocups", > > "nopulseaudio", "nosysvinit", "nodbus", "nopam", "nowayland", > Are alsa, avahi, cups, pulseaudio, sysvinit, dbus, pam and wayland

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Should Debian also support "noalsa", "noavahi", "nocups", > "nopulseaudio", "nosysvinit", "nodbus", "nopam", "nowayland", Are alsa, avahi, cups, pulseaudio, sysvinit, dbus, pam and wayland all similar in scope to systemd? If not, then this question is a strawman.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Narcis Garcia
Does "Debian uses Systemd by default" mean "Debian is married with Systemd forever"? Should Debian exclude other desktop environments but Gnome, because Gnome shell is the default one? Then drop Qt and Wx compatibility? __ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses

Re: Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit-core installations. Devuan is _not_ Debian. They forked it, with the full knowledge that they might have to do all the work to support their choices.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:30 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> As long as people choose to strip of dependencies to libsystemd from >> packages like util-linux, avoiding a fork would not work with how Debian >> and Debian based distributions are built. > > It might be feasible to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:30 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > As long as people choose to strip of dependencies to libsystemd from > packages like util-linux, avoiding a fork would not work with how Debian > and Debian based distributions are built. It might be feasible to introduce nosystemd

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 17/Oct/2018 23:06:24 +0200 Russ Allbery wrote: >> You say "more than adequate". I don't particularly see it as providing a >> solid system as you don't get restart on failure. Now I can see how >> people say that this is not a problem as daemons should not crash in the >> first place.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Bastian Blank - 19.10.18, 12:25: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit-core > > installations. > Devuan is _not_ Debian. They forked it, with the full knowledge that > they might have to do all the work to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Holger Levsen - 19.10.18, 12:02: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > A minority? Yes. But a sizable one. > > It doesn't matter how many people use it, if noone is willing to > maintain it. *If* people are maintaining it, it also doesnt matter > how many

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit-core installations. Devuan is _not_ Debian. They forked it, with the full knowledge that they might have to do all the work to support their choices. They had the chance to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 11:35 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Martin Steigerwald - 19.10.18, 10:57: > > That written, I estimate or guess that the people preferring to use > > another initialization system than the initialization system in > > Systemd are in the minority. Yet, this minority might

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > A minority? Yes. But a sizable one. It doesn't matter how many people use it, if noone is willing to maintain it. *If* people are maintaining it, it also doesnt matter how many people are using it :) *Someone* needs to do the

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 19.10.18, 10:57: > That written, I estimate or guess that the people preferring to use > another initialization system than the initialization system in > Systemd are in the minority. Yet, this minority might be larger than > you think. Especially as popularity contest does

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 19/10/18 a les 09:37, Philipp Kern ha escrit: > On 2018-10-19 08:39, Narcis Garcia

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
dropping debian-hurd Bernd Zeimetz - 18.10.18, 22:07: > - the typical package maintainer won't test initscripts I am not typical then. > After using a lot of systemd now I will never go back to init scripts. > Systemd comes with a steep learning curve, but one you've stated > using its features

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 09:37 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-10-19 08:39, Narcis Garcia wrote: > > El 18/10/18 a les 22:07, Bernd Zeimetz ha escrit: > > > For my packages I can state that I do not have a single machine > > > which is not using systemd - and to be honest - I won't waste my > >

GNU shepherd or OpenRC (Was: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support)

2018-10-19 Thread Ondřej Surý
That’s interesting though - could we use GNU shepherd to: a) support kFreeBSD? b) automatically translate systemd units to sheep(?) (limited subset might work) The other alternative is OpenRC - here’s the same question - could we have systemd units as authoritative definition and have OpenRC

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-10-19 08:39, Narcis Garcia wrote: El 18/10/18 a les 22:07, Bernd Zeimetz ha escrit: For my packages I can state that I do not have a single machine which is not using systemd - and to be honest - I won't waste my time in writing/debugging initscripts. Most of people want to use a GNU

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 18/10/18 a les 22:07, Bernd Zeimetz ha escrit: > For my packages I can state that I do

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/13/18 12:58 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >>> no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:58:14 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 08:33:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>MAILTO was the main thing that I remember missing in terms of pure >>functionality. > > This is not a complete substitute for all uses of MAILTO, but I found > the

Re: OpenRC is there (was: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support)

2018-10-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/13/18 12:58 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >>> no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Kamil Jońca
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:09:38AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>Thanks for passing that along: I'm using it with Exim and haven't >>noticed this particular problem, but it's useful to know it could >>happen. > > Ah, because I have User=nobody, and so the systemd

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Kamil Jońca
Adam Borowski writes: [..] > > Ouch. This is downright terrifying. It should be quite obvious why things > other than exim can break when called from there. > > And there's no good way for a random tool you may use to know it might get > suddenly SIGKILLed out of the blue. The only workaround

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:09:38AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Thanks for passing that along: I'm using it with Exim and haven't noticed this particular problem, but it's useful to know it could happen. Ah, because I have User=nobody, and so the systemd sub-process can't reap the privileged

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 08:46:10AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > Put an OnFailure= line in systemd units that you want to mail you if > > they go wrong > > > >> [Unit] > >> OnFailure=status-email-user@%n.service > > But this not play well with exim4. > See: >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 08:46:10AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: But this not play well with exim4. See: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-September/041417.html (and thread as a whole) Thanks for passing that along: I'm using it with Exim and haven't noticed this particular

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Kamil Jońca
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 08:33:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>MAILTO was the main thing that I remember missing in terms of pure >>functionality. > > This is not a complete substitute for all uses of MAILTO, but I found > the following useful so I share it in case

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 08:33:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: MAILTO was the main thing that I remember missing in terms of pure functionality. This is not a complete substitute for all uses of MAILTO, but I found the following useful so I share it in case you weren't aware of it. Define a

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:24 AM Russ Allbery wrote: >> Timer units are also a more complicated problem since they're not a >> superset of cron behavior. They do some things better than cron jobs; >> they do other things much *worse* than cron jobs. I have cron jobs >> that

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:24 AM Russ Allbery wrote: > Timer units are also a more complicated problem since they're not a > superset of cron behavior. They do some things better than cron jobs; > they do other things much *worse* than cron jobs. I have cron jobs that I > wanted to convert to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > On 17.10.2018 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think a package of a daemon that does not inherently require any >> systemd-specific features and would work straightforwardly with >> sysvinit, but has only a systemd unit file and no init script, is not >> only buggy but

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On 17.10.2018 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think a package of a daemon that does not inherently require any > systemd-specific features and would work straightforwardly with sysvinit, > but has only a systemd unit file and no init script, is not only buggy but > RC-buggy. That's what Policy

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > I don't understand. If I submit a merge request to the maintainer, it's > on me to test what I submit actually works. So if I add stuff for a > completely different init system I have to test it. The question is: Is > the package buggy if it does not contain an init script

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Petter, (Dropping backports) Petter Reinholdtsen writes: >> 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). >> 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. > > Thank you for expressing so well the cause of the fate for sysvinit in > Debian. It seem clear its

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Michael Biebl - 16.10.18, 22:08: > Am 16.10.18 um 21:36 schrieb Adam Borowski: > > Systemd's algorithm for btrfs RAID is: > So your complaint is specific to btrfs RAID which afaik is still > considered unstable? Certain BTRFS RAID like RAID 1 and RAID 10 levels are considered stable by upstream

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:08:59PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 16.10.18 um 21:36 schrieb Adam Borowski: > > Systemd's algorithm for btrfs RAID is: > > So your complaint is specific to btrfs RAID which afaik is still > considered unstable? Care to specify what's unstable with btrfs RAID?

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.10.18 um 22:24 schrieb Ian Jackson: > Is this advocacy subthread really useful ? If we have bugs to report > in systemd stuff we should report them in the BTS, not debate them on > debian-devel. > > Adam Borowski writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop &

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Is this advocacy subthread really useful ? If we have bugs to report in systemd stuff we should report them in the BTS, not debate them on debian-devel. Adam Borowski writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:38:06PM +

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.10.18 um 21:36 schrieb Adam Borowski: > Systemd's algorithm for btrfs RAID is: So your complaint is specific to btrfs RAID which afaik is still considered unstable? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:38:06PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:20:24PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > Absolutely. And the sysvinit boot system have lots of unsolved problems > > > we never got

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:20:24PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Absolutely. And the sysvinit boot system have lots of unsolved problems > > we never got around to figuring out, related to disk and other device > > setup.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > SysV init leaves all the really hard problems to these, as it cannot > > really do much by itself. That's a fact that people that keep yelling > > "but SysV init was so easy!" keep finessing.. > > Absolutely. And the

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 14:48 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > The question is: Is > the package buggy if it does not contain an init script but a systemd > unit and it seems to be the case. Note that there are a *lot* of useful > options in a systemd unit that would need emulation to make properly

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Pitt] > It's not only that. The sysvinit package *itself* doesn't actually do > much really. That's not to downplay your past involvement there of > course (e. g. developing insserv alone was a huge task), but the > *real* maintenance is in all the packages that *ship* SysV init >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Petter Reinholdtsen [2018-10-16 15:55 +0200]: > [Benda Xu] > > I was about to reply to this thread, but you have completely expressed > > what I want to say: > > > > 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). > > 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > With only two modified binary packages (policykit-1 and udisks2) I’ve > 1. You need to recompile these packages, this is not something an average > user or even sysadmin knows how to do. I publish .deb packages for them (although not for all

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:47:36PM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes: > > … this applies to the shim only. I was a bit surprised seeing on > > someone else’s system that it was no longer installable, but almost > > all systemd-free systems of people I know do not use the shim

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Benda Xu] > I was about to reply to this thread, but you have completely expressed > what I want to say: > > 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). > 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. Thank you for expressing so well the cause of the fate for

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-10-16 at 08:48, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-10-16 14:36, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop >> non-systemd support"): >> >>> Could someone reiterate about what the curr

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-10-16 14:36, Ian Jackson wrote: Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): Could someone reiterate about what the current state of init diversity is supposed to be? Is it assumed to be best effort of every maintainer being requir

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > Could someone reiterate about what the current state of init diversity > is supposed to be? Is it assumed to be best effort of every maintainer > being required to ship an init script

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
KatolaZ writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > The problem that spurred this thread is that sysvinit needs a > maintainer. That's why some of us are here: our intention is to help > with maintaining sysvinit in Debian if possible,

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Matthew Vernon - 16.10.18, 13:27: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Also we are hampered by the lack of a safe space to communicate and > > coordinate. I looked at some of the technical work done in other > > distros to try to make desktoppy stuff continue to work well, and it > > generally seems sane.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-10-16 13:27, Matthew Vernon wrote: So: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-init-diversity It's a standard mailman list with a public archive. I'm hoping people interested in init system diversity in Debian can use it as a place to co-ordinate. I don't want it to be

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
KatolaZ - 16.10.18, 13:39: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > [cut] > > > What you say is obviously wrong, and you should know that if you > > follow devuan. > > > > Even the founder of Devuan regularly uses exactly the words Ansgar > > described. > > Chris

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
I intend this to be my last response on that topic here. So even if you choose to reply in a way that I feel hurt about, I intend to just let go and end the hurting cycle within my heart instead of replying another time. Ansgar Burchardt - 16.10.18, 12:20: > On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 09:57 +0200,

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Glaser writes: > … this applies to the shim only. I was a bit surprised seeing on > someone else’s system that it was no longer installable, but almost > all systemd-free systems of people I know do not use the shim anyway, > so I’d take the Subject line with a few grains

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: [cut] > > What you say is obviously wrong, and you should know that if you follow > devuan. > > Even the founder of Devuan regularly uses exactly the words Ansgar > described. > Chris Lamb not to long ago was target of those

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Ian Jackson writes: > Also we are hampered by the lack of a safe space to communicate and > coordinate. I looked at some of the technical work done in other > distros to try to make desktoppy stuff continue to work well, and it > generally seems sane. But some of those projects are quite toxic

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.10.18 um 09:57 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Ansgar Burchardt - 16.10.18, 08:53: >> If some people consistently call others a "cancer", accuse them of >> "vandalizing" open source, spread obvious FUD and so on, then I don't >> think they would fit in well in Debian's culture where they would

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 09:57 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt - 16.10.18, 08:53: > > If some people consistently call others a "cancer", accuse them of > > "vandalizing" open source, spread obvious FUD and so on, then I don't > > think they would fit in well in Debian's culture

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Philip Hands
Ansgar Burchardt writes: ... > Please no. I don't think it would help Debian to have toxic people > maintain packages. You are using a fairly blunt tool if you judge people based on their preference of operating system. ;-) Let's instead judge people by the way they behave. I admit that I

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Steigerwald writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > Ian, cc'ing you to make you aware of this discussion, in case you > aren't, and give you an opportunity to comment on your aim to adopt > sysvinit package from some time ago. T

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 09:48 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:59:16AM +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote: > > I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses > > aren't > > masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive > > administrator > > should fix

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:03:45PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Please no. I don't think it would help Debian to have toxic people maintain packages. At least some of the people who were at least once involved in Devuan (I haven't kept on top) were once valued Debian contributors - e.g.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:59:16AM +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote: I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. The right way to fight spam is to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Z Re: [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181016.042148.1688fecb.en.html > And no, it's not just that infobot factoid or just random people that > are totally unrelated to Devuan. A claim without facts. So FUD

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 22:31 -0700, Alessio Treglia wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:51 PM Enzo Nicosia > wrote: > > Please, just tell us who we should contact (current/last > > maintainer?) to start working on that. > > That's easy [1]. It is, but the link you gave is a rather cryptic way of

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
that the package is ready for adoption, as Petter also already mentioned: Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/10/msg00171.html For adopting it, one would need to become at least a Debian maintainer, or… have someone who spon

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 15/10/18 a les 16:18, Thorsten Glaser ha escrit: > Several people have said they

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Ansgar Burchardt - 15.10.18, 16:03: >> Please no. I don't think it would help Debian to have toxic people >> maintain packages. >> >> (As an example, Devuan's infobot has fun facts like this one: >> "<+infobot> 'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive,

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:51 PM Enzo Nicosia wrote: > Please, just tell us who we should contact (current/last > maintainer?) to start working on that. That's easy [1]. Thanks. [1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- Alessio Treglia

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Enzo Nicosia
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:16:37AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:18 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > > The main problem with sysvinit is the lack of a git repository. > > There is an upstream git repository with commits up to September 2018: > >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:18 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > The main problem with sysvinit is the lack of a git repository. There is an upstream git repository with commits up to September 2018: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git -- bye,

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:02:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > I’ve volunteered to help out earlier in the thread, within constraints > > (but rather that than to see things go and break). > > The main problem with sysvinit is

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Borowski, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 18:02:37 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Matthew Vernon wrote: > > >interest/effort in getting sysvinit (and related bits) in a better state > > >for buster, do drop me a line. > > > > I’ve volunteered to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Note, I can with authority, as the person introducing dependency based > boot and shutdown ordering in Debian, report that insserv were not > introduced for parallell boot, nor for boot speed. It was introduced to > correct broken boot and

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thorsten Glaser] > Hmm. This does not answer the question, while it does point out one > package. I’d rather sysvinit not depend on insserv, it used to work > fine without that kind of added complexity, and AIUI, it was only > used for parallel boots Note, I can with authority, as the person

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 15.10.18, 17:56: > Anyway, I will make Devuan people aware of this discussion. Let's see > whether someone likes to cooperate. As Evilham also pointed out, Devuan people are aware of this discussion already: [devuan-dev] sysvinit in debian is under threat of being dropped

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 17:49:23 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 17:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It's a matter of people subscribing to the > > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list and discussing there, > > I > > don't see why anything heavier would be

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Matthew Vernon wrote: > > >I'm aware of some work ongoing at the moment to try and improve matters > >(currently looking at elongind, for example). If anyone's got some > > What’s elongind? elogind? Never heard of it… elogind is

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ansgar Burchardt - 15.10.18, 16:03: > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to > > > be > > > removed unless someone with time and

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 17:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It's a matter of people subscribing to the > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list and discussing there, > I > don't see why anything heavier would be needed. I thought alioth was no more, but maybe the mailing list remains?

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Evilham, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 16:27:25 +0200, a ecrit: > Where to now? > At devuan-dev, Adam Sampson has suggested that the debian-bsd and > debian-hurd communities are also very interested in keeping non-systemd > things working, Yes, but they aren't populated so much either, with already a lot

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Evilham
Dear debian-devel, Am 15/10/2018 um 15:20 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > [ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not > set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, > Thorsten… ] > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > [ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not > set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, > Thorsten… ] Thanks… will follow up on those I read up on in the web interface (why is there no NNTP

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be > > removed unless someone with time and interest show up to take care of > > them. A good

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:20:03PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Is it worth interested parties reaching out to the Devuan project > regarding person-power for sysvinit maintenance? It's hard to discuss this with a straight face, but in any case even they admit they don't have any

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
[ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, Thorsten… ] On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be removed

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Holger Levsen writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >> > no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for over 2 years, and

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 08:46:31AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > > > > Please note that sysvinit dependencies still have open RC bugs which > > > noone is caring for. > > > > Oof. How do I find them out? The

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