Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03/msg0.html and the substantive

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. Your proposal has been received and is signed correctly. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 16.10.2014 17:05, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. [...] ** Begin Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the technical committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Alessio Treglia
Il giorno gio, 16/10/2014 alle 16.05 +0100, Ian Jackson ha scritto: ** Begin Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the technical committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The technical committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: As Matthew said, I don't think further lengthy discussion of the issues is likely to be productive, and therefore hope we can bring this swiftly to a vote. This is particularly true given the impact on the jessie release. Speaking

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03/msg0.html and

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
** Begin Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the technical committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The technical committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03/msg0.html

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03/msg0.html

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Specifically: have you, or anyone else involved in this GR, asked the GNOME team and the release team, whether a positive outcome of this GR is going to disrupt their work (plans) or not? No, I have not.

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 07:57:06PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Seconded. I'm getting a bad signature from you, can you try again, perhaps with a clearsigned mail? Thanks, Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I think that if necessary we might have to delay the release. That would be a matter for the release team. I would be very unhappy if we ditched the ability of people to choose a different init system simply to maintain our release

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 19:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): I've sympathy for the motives behind this GR, but discovering that those teams might have their Jessie plans disrupted---on a very short

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:26:21PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I think that if necessary we might have to delay the release. That would be a matter for the release team. I would be very unhappy if we ditched the ability of people to

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2014, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Speaking for no-one other than myself, I _am_ very unhappy that given how long the discussion has been rumbling on for, and how much opportunity there has been, that anyone thought that two weeks before the freeze (which has had a

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 16 October 2014 21:41, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: And for what exactly? Gnome right now is installable with systemd-shim + sysvinit, why can't this GR wait until after release when the dust has settled? That is great! And is exactly what the GR is supposed make sure keeps

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2014-10-16 Thread jonas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I second the proposal 'preserve freedom of choice of init systems' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUQBJfXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ5RkUzRTlDMzY2OTFBNjlGRjUzQ0M2ODQy

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 22:00 +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: We have all kinds of policies about what is fine in a package and what is a Release Critical bug. That is a big part of what makes a distribution. This simply adds - must be able to work with any init system running at PID 1 to those

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@debian.org writes: We have all kinds of policies about what is fine in a package and what is a Release Critical bug. That is a big part of what makes a distribution. This simply adds - must be able to work with any init system running at PID 1 to those requirements.

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (2014-10-16 20:50:31) Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:26:21PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hurray, what a great idea to delay everything *now*. And all because some people believe in conspiracy theories about Red Hat... This

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:24:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: As Matthew said, I don't think further lengthy discussion of the issues is likely to be productive, and therefore hope we can bring this swiftly to a vote. This is particularly true given the impact on the jessie release.

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Adam D. Barratt wrote: Speaking for no-one other than myself, I _am_ very unhappy that given how long the discussion has been rumbling on for, and how much opportunity there has been, that anyone thought that two weeks before the freeze (which has had a fixed date for nearly a year now) was

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org (2014-10-16): On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:24:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: As Matthew said, I don't think further lengthy discussion of the issues is likely to be productive, and therefore hope we can bring this swiftly to a vote. This is

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 16 October 2014 22:13, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: Aigars Mahinovs aigar...@debian.org writes: We have all kinds of policies about what is fine in a package and what is a Release Critical bug. That is a big part of what makes a distribution. This simply adds - must be able to

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:03:49PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: See, there is a clear difference: [snip] * if your software only works if started by this one init system - that is a problem. I don't quite understand this - what if you depend on something that's only provided / supported on

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 16 October 2014 23:07, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: * if your software only works if started by this one init system - that is a problem. I don't quite understand this - what if you depend on something that's only provided / supported on one init system? Take for example the

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:20:13PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: According to my reading of the proposal - either logind gets an RC bug for not being able to work with other init systems To be clear, this would be a bug against src:systemd about it not working with non-systemd. Do we expect the

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2014-10-16 Thread Craig Sanders
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Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 16 October 2014 23:26, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:20:13PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: According to my reading of the proposal - either logind gets an RC bug for not being able to work with other init systems To be clear, this would be a bug

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk [141016 17:05]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March:

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Can I ask people to move discussion that is not relevant to the vote to some other place? Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Luk Claes
On 10/16/2014 11:07 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Can I ask people to move discussion that is not relevant to the vote to some other place? Do you really think anyone will feel that their contribution was not relevant for the vote? Anyway, is someone willing to propose an option that would postpone

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 16 octobre 2014 16:26 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org : Here, we will likely do invasive forks of major upstream software (GNOME) to get around a local requirement; do we expect the GNOME team to do this? By turning such bugs into RC bugs, the proponents are exactly advocating

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-16 17:23, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March:

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Brian May
On 17 October 2014 08:25, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: By turning such bugs into RC bugs, the proponents are exactly advocating this position: they put the burden on an under-staffed team. If people feel strongly that init system XYZ should be supported, then presumably somebody

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I second Ian's Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems. https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg1.html Regards, Dimitri. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Proposed amendement: be more careful when proposing a GR.

2014-10-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: