Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > For the TC decision, what kind of information are you looking for about > the plans, beyond "the Ubuntu developers expect to need to address this > before upgrading from systemd logind 204 and will hold at 204 until a > correct solution is known"? I think the right way t

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Russ, On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:16:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Therefore, I think it's important for arguments against using systemd to > somehow engage directly with the questions about functionality. Either > there needs to be an argument that the functionality is not important and >

Processed: reassign 728486 to tech-ctte

2013-11-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 728486 tech-ctte Bug #728486 [debian-ctte] Determine how to handle incompatiblity between systemd and lvm2 Warning: Unknown package 'debian-ctte' Bug reassigned from package 'debian-ctte' to 'tech-ctte'. Ignoring request to alter found v

Bug#727708: upstart ./. ptrace, sockets, etc.

2013-11-01 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:30:22 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't personally consider this a major issue It's probably not something that cannot be worked around in some way, as the upstart position statement asserts (which by the way I *have* read). However, IMHO systemd's cgroups solution make

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position > statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]"): > > I agree with all of the technical critiques here, I just don't see that this > > relatively minor issue, which can be

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]"): > I agree with all of the technical critiques here, I just don't see that this > relatively minor issue, which can be documented and worked around (and > ultimately, fixed upstream), is

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 05:39:15PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position > statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]"): > > I agree. It would still require some fiddling to make 'expect stop' work > > together with strace anyway, since upst

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]"): > I agree. It would still require some fiddling to make 'expect stop' work > together with strace anyway, since upstart only cares about SIGSTOP raised > by upstart's child process, not

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 04:31:30PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Miroslaw Baran writes ("Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position > statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]"): > > You wrote: > > > One non-feature of upstart which I happen to care strongly about is its > > > use of ptrace(2) to fi

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Miroslaw Baran writes ("Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]"): > You wrote: > > One non-feature of upstart which I happen to care strongly about is its > > use of ptrace(2) to figure out what a job is doing. This destroys any > > attempt to just use

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements

2013-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Miroslaw Baran writes: > You wrote: >> One non-feature of upstart which I happen to care strongly about is its >> use of ptrace(2) to figure out what a job is doing. This destroys any >> attempt to just use "strace foo" as the job, if one really needs to >> figure out what a piece of software is

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Miroslaw Baran
Dear Mr. Urlichs, You wrote: > One non-feature of upstart which I happen to care strongly about is its > use of ptrace(2) to figure out what a job is doing. This destroys any > attempt to just use "strace foo" as the job, if one really needs to > figure out what a piece of software is doing wrong

Bug#727708: systemd vs. whatever

2013-11-01 Thread Matthias Urlichs
IMHO. Sorry, but SysV init scripts are an unfixable mess. The sooner we have a system which does not have, let alone require, /etc/rc*, the better. One non-feature of upstart which I happen to care strongly about is its use of ptrace(2) to figure out what a job is doing. This destroys any attempt