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

2014-11-17 Thread Aleskandro
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Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-11-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
goli...@riseup.net wrote: I came to Linux for FREEDOM and for configurability. Finally, I could http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ Thank you for your contribute. Next! -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

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

2014-11-05 Thread tor...@riseup.net
m...@linux.it wrote: goli...@riseup.net wrote: I came to Linux for FREEDOM and for configurability. Finally, I could http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ Thank you for your contribute. Next! It might be your opinion that GNU/Linux is not about choice, but it is often said and the reason why

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

2014-11-04 Thread Andre Kiepe
Seconded I completely back the idea to avoid a fork when ever possible. It's possible to maintain systemd and just let it to do the init stuff. Syslog and other daemons can be implemented independently, as for example in a classic Unix way. SuSE Linux Enterprise 12 has gone this way just now.

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

2014-11-03 Thread spoofy
I agree with the proposal.

Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ian Jackson writes (Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): For the avoidance of any doubt, I currently intend to not accept any further amendments. That means that the minimum discussion period

Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ian Jackson writes (Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): For the avoidance of any doubt, I currently intend to not accept any further amendments. That means that the minimum discussion period

Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 02:34:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): For the avoidance of any doubt, I currently intend to not accept any further amendments. That means that the minimum discussion period

Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Kurt Roeckx writes (Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 02:34:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: That was at `Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:59:16 +0100'. $ date -d 'Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:59:16 +0100 +14 days' Sun Nov

Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 10:59:24PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Kurt Roeckx writes (Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 02:34:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: That was at `Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:59:16 +0100

Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 10:59:24PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Kurt Roeckx writes (Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 02:34:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: That was at `Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:59:16 +0100

Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-11-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Kurt Roeckx writes (Re: Calling for the vote (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 10:59:24PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: The last (and only) formal amendment I accepted was my own, on Sunday the 19th. It looks like you're right. Great

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

2014-10-27 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 23 October 2014 18:28, Vittorio Beggi (Gmail) vittorio.be...@gmail.com wrote: Ian Jackson's proposal to preserve freedom of choice of init systems. I definitely agree with the proposal. -- Vittorio Beggi Me too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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

2014-10-23 Thread Svante Signell
(unfortunately this mail will probably not result in the correct thread order. Don't know if the cause is my MUA evolution, or the web interface of the debian-vote list archives) On 2014-10-17 09:35, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Users still cannot vote? No. Hello, It is well known that

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

2014-10-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:55:34AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The same applies to many upstream developers, they develop software mainly for themselves, not the users, see for example the latest development of Gnome. The only way to change this is by creating a large enough user group taking

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

2014-10-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thursday 23 October 2014 06:08 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:55:34AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The same applies to many upstream developers, they develop software mainly for themselves, not the users, see for example the latest development of Gnome. The only way

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

2014-10-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Hi, Svante, I fear your wonderfully terse phrasing may cause some people to react more negatively to what you said than you perhaps intended. Please forgive me for the boldness of suggsting alternate phrasings below, in the hope of clarifying things for everyone. Svante Signell: It is well

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

2014-10-23 Thread Vittorio Beggi (Gmail)
Ian Jackson's proposal to preserve freedom of choice of init systems https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg1.html. I definitely agree with the proposal. -- Vittorio Beggi PHX di Beggi Vittorio via Cirenaica, 6 35141 Padova PD Tel/Fax: 049 8756276 Mobile: 340 4871253 mailto:

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

2014-10-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:38:36PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2014 06:08 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:55:34AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The same applies to many upstream developers, they develop software mainly for themselves, not the

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

2014-10-22 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hi Neil, I realized that myself afterwards, please forgive my ignorance. Indeed, I'm not a registered Debian developer, so my vote cannot be accepted. Sergey On 22 October 2014 13:39, Neil McGovern n...@halon.org.uk wrote: Hi Sergey, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov

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

2014-10-22 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Sergey, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: Seconded. I say no to systemd dependency. I want to be able to choose myself what init system to use in my Debian setup. This mail isn't signed, nor do I seem to be able to find you in db.debian.org. Unfortunately,

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

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson wrote: The technical committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. What, then was #746715

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

2014-10-21 Thread Sergey Vlasov
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

2014-10-21 Thread Francisco Gonzalez Flores
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Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 16:05 +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 the

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

2014-10-21 Thread ss-composer
Andy, Thank you for the email. You can currently use Debian without systemd as long as no package you use depends on systemd. That depends on systemd hook is a primary objection for those of us who know better. Why should a non-init package depend on a particular init system? Only systemd

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

2014-10-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi debian-vote, The below poster redirected their response to my off-list mail back to the list. I explicitly mailed them off-list and with a reply-to of only myself set in order to avoid further list noise, and because they seemed like they were genuinely confused. I now see that they had an

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

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:26:57AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Perhaps if you picked something other than runit you'd make your point more effectively. Try using the case of someone who makes a tool that depends from System V init running as process #1. It is hardly farfetched.

Re: Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-10-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Alessio Treglia writes (Re: Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): Il giorno dom, 19/10/2014 alle 14.59 +0100, Ian Jackson ha scritto: I hereby formally propose the amendment below (Constitution A.1(1) `directly by proposer'), and, then, immediately accept

Re: Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-10-20 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Alessio Treglia writes (Re: Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): Il giorno dom, 19/10/2014 alle 14.59 +0100, Ian Jackson ha scritto: I hereby formally propose

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

2014-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: The technical committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. What, then was #746715? This resolution is a Position Statement about Issues of the Day (Constitution 4.1.5),

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

2014-10-20 Thread ss-composer
I wholeheartedly support this proposal. I would go further in this proposal and state that no software should require a specific init system in ANY pid. Of course, like many others, I would prefer Debian's default init to be almost anything other than systemd. In fleeing systemd, I have left

Re: Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-10-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 02:59:16PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: (CC secretary@ to avoid this getting overlooked in the mail flood.) I hereby formally propose the amendment below (Constitution A.1(1) `directly by proposer'), and, then, immediately accept it (A.1(2)). This resets the minimum

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

2014-10-19 Thread John James
Hi,  Not sure if I am able to vote on the issue; however, having been a Debian user for two years and a Linux user for nearly six years and having used a number of different distros in my time. I would like to vote in favour of keeping the traditional freedom of choice for init systems in line

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

2014-10-19 Thread Vincent Blut
Le dim. 19 oct. 2014 à 10:54, John James johnja...@broken-pixel.co.uk a écrit : Hi, Hi John, Not sure if I am able to vote on the issue; however, having been a Debian user for two years and a Linux user for nearly six years and having used a number of different distros in my time. I

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

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson writes: 2. Loose coupling of init systems In general, software may not require a specific init system to be pid 1. The exceptions to this are as follows: Could you change

Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 (CC secretary@ to avoid this getting overlooked in the mail flood.) I hereby formally propose the amendment below (Constitution A.1(1) `directly by proposer'), and, then, immediately accept it (A.1(2)). This resets the minimum discussion period

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

2014-10-19 Thread quixote
I'm an end user who normally only reads this list. I'd like to add my perspective to this question though, for what it's worth. I'm on Debian testing, which is using systemd now. The only obvious difference to me is my laptop boots faster, which is nice, but ... 1) Binary logs? No. Even I've

Re: Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-10-19 Thread Alessio Treglia
Hi, Il giorno dom, 19/10/2014 alle 14.59 +0100, Ian Jackson ha scritto: I hereby formally propose the amendment below (Constitution A.1(1) `directly by proposer'), and, then, immediately accept it (A.1(2)). This resets the minimum discussion period (A.2(4)). For the avoidance of any doubt,

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

2014-10-19 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 17 October 2014 20:07, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Lucas Nussbaum writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): If you agree that this is only a matter of general technical policy, and that the current state of jessie matches what you would

Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ian Jackson writes (Amendment (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems)): And, renumber the already-existing section 3 to be section 4: - 3. Notes and rubric + 3. Notes and rubric Don points out to me in private

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

2014-10-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:14:06PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So let's just assume for now that I would come to the same conclusion. When do you think you'll do an authoritative assessment of this matter? Thanks, -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître

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

2014-10-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:14:06PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So let's just assume for now that I would come to the same conclusion. When do you think you'll do an authoritative assessment of this matter? I did have to come

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

2014-10-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Simon Richter wrote: The technical shortcomings of systemd are the smaller problem here. The way I've been treated (stopping short of directly accusing me to actively look for problems to complain about) whenever I was raising a technical issue suggests to me

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

2014-10-17 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 17 October 2014 01:36, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: If people feel strongly that init system XYZ should be supported, then presumably somebody will do the work to make sure it is supported, and it does work. [snip] On another topic, I think we need a GR stating that all

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

2014-10-17 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk writes: 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Arto Jantunen
Matthew Vernon matt...@debian.org writes: I wonder if, in the circumstances, the DPL should use their power under 4.2.4 to reduce the discussion period to 1 week. I'd be surprised if anyone is likely to change their view on the desirability of choice of init system now - as others have pointed

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thursday 16 October 2014 11:56 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Anyone around for the alternative choice of just one init system? In the same spirit of just one libc? (Yeah, choice of course does not include the C library or the kernel if it's just anti-evil-Red-Hat...) I guess we have one libc

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thursday 16 October 2014 11:58 PM, 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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 17 October 2014 12:11 AM, Holger Levsen 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? The world isn't just GNOME. This is a GR based on rumors, which is very sad.

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 17 October 2014 12:30 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: If you don't like upstreams choices, *you* should write patches. Not GRs telling other people to do so. 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Ian Jackson dixit: I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call (d-d-a would have been nice, but this time I found it in time.) ** Begin Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the technical committee) to

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 17 October 2014 12:43 AM, Ansgar Burchardt 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 work

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

2014-10-17 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Users still cannot vote? Or if we can, how? ​Best , He who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy to receive* all else* from you (and me). The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil

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

2014-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2014-10-17 09:35, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Users still cannot vote? No. -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51

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

2014-10-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:38:25AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: I wonder if, in the circumstances, the DPL should use their power under 4.2.4 to reduce the discussion period to 1 week. I think this is a terrible idea. I agree that there are entrenched people on two sides of the argument, but

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

2014-10-17 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Fine, conspiracy theories might be a bit too much. Let's call it strategic alliances that are a very real threat to Debian that are mediated by shared employment and might also involve corporate alliances. I don't care if

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

2014-10-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
aigar...@debian.org wrote: To be frank, in cases like logind I would expect the logind binary package to be split out and its source patched in such a way to allow it to work without systemd running (however badly) and moving the main systemd package from Dependencies to Recommended. It is quite

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

2014-10-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi Ansgar, 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2014-10-17 9:45, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2014 11:58 PM, 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
f...@zz.de wrote: for 30 years so why are some people pushing _so hard_ to replace it NOW and by something as controversal as the systemd stuff. A vocal minority and a lot of trolls do not make something controversial. Considering how widely it has been adopted by other distributions I would

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam D. Barratt writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam D. Barratt writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): That doesn't really disagree with my point. Ian could have asked weeks - in fact _months_ - ago. I did, in March. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2014-10-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:52:26AM +, Marco d'Itri wrote: f...@zz.de wrote: for 30 years so why are some people pushing _so hard_ to replace it NOW and by something as controversal as the systemd stuff. A vocal minority and a lot of trolls do not make something controversial. I

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

2014-10-17 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Kurt Roeckx: Can I ask people to move discussion that is not relevant to the vote to some other place? Please don't. Personally, I do not want -devel to get swamped with yet another discussion about this. Or -release, for that matter. If it passes (which I consider to be sufficiently

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

2014-10-17 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 17 October 2014 13:27, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: If it passes (which I consider to be sufficiently unlikely to wonder why the *censored* Ian even bothered, but whatever), _then_ these lists are the right places to discuss the implications. Until then, let's keep it here.

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

2014-10-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 17, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: A vocal minority and a lot of trolls do not make something controversial. I havent found the mentioned minority you speak about? Probably because you appear to be in the middle of it... Considering how widely it has been adopted by other

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

2014-10-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:38:25AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: I wonder if, in the circumstances, the DPL should use their power under 4.2.4 to reduce the discussion period to 1 week. I think this is a terrible idea. I agree that there are

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

2014-10-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:13:56AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I'm very unhappy about that too. The right time to raise this was in March when Matthew proposed it and I seconded it. But that doesn't mean that it isn't still important now. Sure. But the drawbacks of having it now are much more

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

2014-10-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:16:49AM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Actually that is a *very* similar issue. Apps should be window-manager-neutral as much as they should be init-system-neutral. Imagine if suddenly all Gnome apps stopped working unless you were running Metacity. It should not be

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

2014-10-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:23:15PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: Because of pressure of other upstreams going forward everyone adopted it and this makes it non controversial - i dont get it?!? The adaption in openSUSE and Mageia was not due to this. The discussion is public. If you claim above

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

2014-10-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2014-10-17 12:00, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: On 17 October 2014 13:27, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: If it passes (which I consider to be sufficiently unlikely to wonder why the *censored* Ian even bothered, but whatever), _then_ these lists are the right places to discuss the

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 17 October 2014 05:10 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: The world isn't just GNOME. The issue is bigger than just GNOME. Think of e.g. UPower. There is various other software which is affected by this. Requiring people to do your bidding is against the Debian social contract. While this is

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

2014-10-17 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 17 October 2014 15:53, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@researchut.com wrote: Why is SysV Init so unacceptable ? It is a neutral init that serves well for all our sub-projects. Let that be the default choice. Please do not conflate two very different issues. The default choice has been decided and is

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

2014-10-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 06:23:30PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Why is SysV Init so unacceptable ? It is a neutral init that serves well for all our sub-projects. Let that be the default choice. Ritesh, from various mails of yours I got the impression that you are arguing for changing

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 17 October 2014 06:27 PM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: On 17 October 2014 15:53, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@researchut.com wrote: Why is SysV Init so unacceptable ? It is a neutral init that serves well for all our sub-projects. Let that be the default choice. Please do not conflate two very

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

2014-10-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 06:23:30PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Friday 17 October 2014 05:10 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: The world isn't just GNOME. The issue is bigger than just GNOME. Think of e.g. UPower. There is various other software which is affected by this. Requiring people to

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

2014-10-17 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:05:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: -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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): For these reasons, and no matter what went wrong in the past with previous attempts at this GR, I think you should have at the very least included an applies only to jessie + 1 provision in your proposal

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): While I appreciate that this is a very important issue for a lot of people, I am deeply concerned by the point in time it is revived. _*We have less than 3 weeks till the Jessie freeze starts!*_ I agree

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

2014-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Adam D. Barratt wrote: Note (and this is not splitting hairs) that serious bug is not a direct analogue for release-critical bug. This GR is not amending Debian policy, it's setting a technical requirement at a more fundamental level, which has never been used to set technical requirements in

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

2014-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: The problem with making it simply not apply to jessie is that there would be a continued opportunity to create `facts on the ground' which make it difficult to disentangle things in jessie + 1. Can you please point to one thing in jessie that is currently entangled in a way

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

2014-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/17/2014 10:33 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: If the fix is not easy then we have three options: the release team mark it `jessie-ignore', the GNOME maintainers fix it, or GNOME is removed from jessie. The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants to rely on specific

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ean Schuessler
- Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: If you don't like upstreams choices, *you* should write patches. Not GRs telling other people to do so. Very well stated. Perhaps a sensible response to this GR is for all of the maintainers who truly disagree with it to state their intent of

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

2014-10-17 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Brian May: If people feel strongly that init system XYZ should be supported, then presumably somebody will do the work to make sure it is supported, and it does work. As I believe is the case now. Correct. But this proposal would make *something* RC buggy until *somebody* writes some

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson wrote: The problem with making it simply not apply to jessie is that there would be a continued opportunity to create `facts on the ground' which make it difficult to disentangle things in jessie

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants to rely on specific features of a given initsystem. Yes, indeed. The implication of this proposed GR seems to be that those tools

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

2014-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/17/2014 11:26 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants to rely on specific features of a given initsystem. Yes, indeed. The implication

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

2014-10-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 17 octobre 2014, 10.00:59 Ean Schuessler a écrit : - Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: If you don't like upstreams choices, *you* should write patches. Not GRs telling other people to do so. Very well stated. Perhaps a sensible response to this GR is for all of

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

2014-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: Joey Hess writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson wrote: The problem with making it simply not apply to jessie is that there would be a continued opportunity to create `facts on the ground' which make it difficult

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): nevertheless, runit behaves differently when it is pid 1 than when it is used in a subordinate role to another initsystem. If i'm upstream and i'm building mechanisms that integrate with runit

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson wrote: So if there is no backsliding, this GR will not delay the jessie release at all. But, the resolution of this GR and the start of the freeze cooincide, +-1 week. And after the freeze

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): ** Begin Proposal ** I am considering making an amendment to this along the lines below. Please let me know ASAP what you think. Feel free to use private email. Especially, I would like to hear from: - People who

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

2014-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/17/2014 12:06 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): nevertheless, runit behaves differently when it is pid 1 than when it is used in a subordinate role to another initsystem. If i'm upstream and i'm building

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

2014-10-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/10/14 at 17:29 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: 3. As far as we are aware there are currently (17th of October) no bugs in jessie which would be declared RC by this GR. Given the late passage of this resolution, we expect that any intractable bugs which are RC by virtue only of

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

2014-10-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/17/2014 03:09 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: 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

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

2014-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: Joey Hess writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Ian Jackson wrote: So if there is no backsliding, this GR will not delay the jessie release at all. But, the resolution of this GR and the start of the freeze cooincide, +-1 week

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

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): If you agree that this is only a matter of general technical policy, and that the current state of jessie matches what you would like to see after your proposal, couldn't we just agree to withdraw both

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

2014-10-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/17/2014 05:14 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: aigar...@debian.org wrote: To be frank, in cases like logind I would expect the logind binary package to be split out and its source patched in such a way to allow it to work without systemd running (however badly) and moving the main systemd

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