Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-12-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 29.11.2014 19:15, Svante Signell wrote:

 Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs,
 I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able
 to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart!

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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-12-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:30 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:

  That's even more unlikely than to add a debconf message (which would be
  package-owned). Yes, debian-installer is frozen. This would add new
  udebs, new strings, new everything. We're actually trying to release.
 
 Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are going to
 have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to systemd,
 then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that means
 unfreezing the installer.

Indeed. Jessie should be released once large numbers of our users [will] no
longer have a bad experience as a result of being switched to systemd [because
all relevant bugs have been fixed].

As somebody who is active in user support on IRC I dread the jessie release if 
it
means that we will ask people for years to come if they have switched to systemd
after their upgrade and, if not, walk them through the process. So far most
users who had a bad experience with jessie did so because they did *not* switch
and the fact that -shim wasn't ready.

having a bad experience should directly translate into bugs that can, and have
to, be fixed before the release. I would welcome a more technical discussion at
this point rather than an emotional one.

Thank you and everybody else for their wonderful work and patience.
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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-12-01 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 29.11.2014 um 22:01 schrieb Philipp Kern:
 On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote:
 Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are
 going to
 have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to
 systemd,
 then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that means
 unfreezing the installer.
 
 Sure. But where is the evidence for that? Is there a bug that has been
 agreed upon to be RC?

Whoever upgrades their lxc guests without taking further informed action
(such as switching back to sysv), will not be able to start their LXC VM
at the next reboot( #766233 [1]).

This is currently classified as a bug which has a major effect on the
usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to
everyone. and thus not RC, so if being RC is currently the precondition
to fix stuff in jessie, then you are right.

Unless at least respective documentation gets included in the release
notes (#762194 [2]) I think there will be some future unhappiness.

At this moment it's a trap waiting to be walked into.
*t

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/766233
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/762194


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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-12-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Tomas Pospisek (2014-12-01 17:57:12)
 Am 29.11.2014 um 22:01 schrieb Philipp Kern:
 On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote:
 Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are 
 going to have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being 
 switched to systemd, then we should take appropriate steps to 
 address that, even if that means unfreezing the installer.

 Sure. But where is the evidence for that? Is there a bug that has 
 been agreed upon to be RC?

 Whoever upgrades their lxc guests without taking further informed 
 action (such as switching back to sysv), will not be able to start 
 their LXC VM at the next reboot( #766233 [1]).

 This is currently classified as a bug which has a major effect on the 
 usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to 
 everyone. and thus not RC, so if being RC is currently the 
 precondition to fix stuff in jessie, then you are right.

 Unless at least respective documentation gets included in the release 
 notes (#762194 [2]) I think there will be some future unhappiness.

 At this moment it's a trap waiting to be walked into.
 *t

 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/766233
 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/762194

What does evidence even mean here?

I expect systemd itself to be in good shape, not buggy.  But I do 
suspect that Debian-with-systemd is in lesser good shape, especially on 
existing systems some of which were creating by standards now 
discouraged (e.g. / and /usr on separate partitions).  By switching init 
system we are shaking the tree, revealing bugs in other code which lay 
dormant till now.

Molly-guard seems to now fail on systems with separate / and /usr due to 
/usr being unmounted before molly-guard is called (bug#771572) - smells 
like broken init system interactions, but likely an old bug in 
Molly-guard just not revealed until exposed to a modern init system.

Should that bug be RC?

How to collect potential evidence, while playing nice with systemd 
maintainers, release team and others who are less worried?


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Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
One claim is changed, see below.

On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
 Hello,

 In summary:
 a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be
 kept.
 b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf
 message about alternative init systems.

Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs,
I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able
to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart!




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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
 One claim is changed, see below.
 
 On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
  Hello,
 
  In summary:
  a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be
  kept.
  b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf
  message about alternative init systems.
 
 Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs,
 I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able
 to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart!

That's even more unlikely than to add a debconf message (which would be
package-owned). Yes, debian-installer is frozen. This would add new
udebs, new strings, new everything. We're actually trying to release.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern


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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:14 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
  One claim is changed, see below.
  
  On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
   Hello,
  
   In summary:
   a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be
   kept.
   b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf
   message about alternative init systems.
  
  Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs,
  I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able
  to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart!
 
 That's even more unlikely than to add a debconf message (which would be
 package-owned). Yes, debian-installer is frozen. This would add new
 udebs, new strings, new everything. We're actually trying to release.

This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan,
please! Use Debian as upstream (as long as it lives)

Yes, next Debian release is lendows, not jessie :(


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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
On 29-11-2014 19:40, Svante Signell wrote:
[...]

 This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan,
 please! Use Debian as upstream (as long as it lives)
 
 Yes, next Debian release is lendows, not jessie :(

Thanks! We appreciate less noise on these lists and on the next release
- which it's currently frozen, although you don't care.
Good luck.

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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:40 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
 This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan,
 please!

You are of course free to do that. This discussion is about what Debian
should do, however. If you wish to discuss Devuan, please do so in a
more appropriate forum.

Regards,

Adam


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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:19 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
 On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:40 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
  This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan,
  please!
 
 You are of course free to do that. This discussion is about what Debian
 should do, however. If you wish to discuss Devuan, please do so in a
 more appropriate forum.

Yes, I'll do that. But it does not seem like you are realizing what is
happening unfortunately. Debian will not be as it was historically due
to this issue. Maybe the new DDs are to young to learn from history?



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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
  One claim is changed, see below.

  On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
   Hello,

   In summary:
   a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be
   kept.
   b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf
   message about alternative init systems.

  Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs,
  I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able
  to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart!

 That's even more unlikely than to add a debconf message (which would be
 package-owned). Yes, debian-installer is frozen. This would add new
 udebs, new strings, new everything. We're actually trying to release.

Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are going to
have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to systemd,
then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that means
unfreezing the installer.

I am not saying that making init systems a choice in the installer is the
right solution here; I don't think that it is.  But I also don't think that
the release freeze can reasonably be an argument against it.

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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 21:27 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
 But it does not seem like you are realizing what is
 happening unfortunately. Debian will not be as it was historically due
 to this issue. Maybe the new DDs are to young to learn from history?

Please don't patronise people. Just because someone disagrees with you,
it doesn't mean that they're naive and unseeing and would be so much
better off if you could just lift the mist from in front of their eyes.

I'll stop contributing to the noise myself now, apologies to everyone
else.

Regards,

Adam


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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Philipp Kern

On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote:
Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are 
going to
have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to 
systemd,
then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that 
means

unfreezing the installer.


Sure. But where is the evidence for that? Is there a bug that has been 
agreed upon to be RC?


I am not saying that making init systems a choice in the installer is 
the
right solution here; I don't think that it is.  But I also don't think 
that

the release freeze can reasonably be an argument against it.


Not even the release freeze, rather the d-i freeze. Unless this is RC 
for d-i, that is.


Kind regards
Philipp Kern


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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 22:01 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
 On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote:
  Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are 
  going to
  have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to 
  systemd,
  then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that 
  means
  unfreezing the installer.
 
 Sure. But where is the evidence for that? Is there a bug that has been 
 agreed upon to be RC?
 
  I am not saying that making init systems a choice in the installer is 
  the
  right solution here; I don't think that it is.  But I also don't think 
  that
  the release freeze can reasonably be an argument against it.
 
 Not even the release freeze, rather the d-i freeze. Unless this is RC 
 for d-i, that is

Ok, I've tried to no avail. Debian is no democracy (maybe never was).
ctte do as you feel there are no alternative solutions, just state the
fact with your decision EOT.



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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:30:49 -0800, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org
wrote:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
  One claim is changed, see below.

  On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
   Hello,

   In summary:
   a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be
   kept.
   b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf
   message about alternative init systems.

  Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs,
  I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able
  to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart!

 That's even more unlikely than to add a debconf message (which would be
 package-owned). Yes, debian-installer is frozen. This would add new
 udebs, new strings, new everything. We're actually trying to release.

Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are going to
have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to systemd,
then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that means
unfreezing the installer.

I am not saying that making init systems a choice in the installer is the
right solution here; I don't think that it is.  But I also don't think that
the release freeze can reasonably be an argument against it.

Amen. With all the technical issues in systemd popping up just now, we
have frozen prematurely.

Greetings
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Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-11-29 22:25 GMT+01:00 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com:
 On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 22:01 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
 On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote:
  Debian releases when it's ready.  If large numbers of our users are
  going to
  have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to
  systemd,
  then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that
  means
  unfreezing the installer.

 Sure. But where is the evidence for that? Is there a bug that has been
 agreed upon to be RC?

  I am not saying that making init systems a choice in the installer is
  the
  right solution here; I don't think that it is.  But I also don't think
  that
  the release freeze can reasonably be an argument against it.

 Not even the release freeze, rather the d-i freeze. Unless this is RC
 for d-i, that is

 Ok, I've tried to no avail. Debian is no democracy (maybe never was).

It never was a democracy - it was and is a meritocracy, described as
the reign of knowledge[1].
And we are going quite well with that.

[1]: 
http://debian-handbook.info/browse/wheezy/sect.debian-internals.html#idp5715200


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