Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 19 décembre 2013 à 12:35 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > The reasons for not upgrading to the current version of logind aren't to do > with any fragility of the existing glue code (the systemd-shim package), but > because logind 205 has a new dependency on systemd as cgroup manager, whic

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:53:01AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > Ubuntu is also using udev and logind without using systemd, so they are > > and will continue to be available stand-alone. > Ubuntu is maintaining a variety of moderately fragile glue in order to > make this

Bug#727708: upstart upstream maintenance practices

2013-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Could someone (Steve, most likely) provide a bit of background for how upstart upstream maintenance works and relates to its packaging? This question is prompted by a few different things, set off by looking at the SELinux support since this is something I expect to start looking at for my day job

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:57:48AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Russ Allbery writes: > >> * Lots of really interesting defense-in-depth security features. I > >> particularly liked ReadWriteDirectories, ReadOnlyDirectories, > >> InaccessibleDirectories, PrivateNetwork,

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:57:48AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Russ Allbery writes: > >> * Lots of really interesting defense-in-depth security features. I > >> particularly liked ReadWriteDirectories, ReadOnlyDirectories, > >> InaccessibleDirectories, PrivateNetwork

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> * Lots of really interesting defense-in-depth security features. I >> particularly liked ReadWriteDirectories, ReadOnlyDirectories, >> InaccessibleDirectories, PrivateNetwork, and NoNewPrivileges, which >> provide a sort of lightweight process

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > Ubuntu is also using udev and logind without using systemd, so they are > and will continue to be available stand-alone. Ubuntu is maintaining a variety of moderately fragile glue in order to make this happen and currently can't upgrade to the current version of logind. Th

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:43:05AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:53:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > [1] Personally, I am sceptical whether it is a good idea to switch to a > > > different init system for jessie. But I am not on a desperat

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature > comparison"): >> * Lots of really interesting defense-in-depth security features. I >> particularly liked ReadWriteDirectories, ReadOnlyDirectories, >> InaccessibleDirectories, PrivateNetwork, and NoN

Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian

2013-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:15:24AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian"): > > It's also been suggested that instead of requiring modification of the init > > scripts at all, this logic should be provided by the upstart package in a > > /

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison"): > * StandardError=syslog. This would be *so nice* for *so many things*. > Particularly for running Java applications, which are very bad about not > sending everything to syslog even when one tries to write them

Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian"): > It's also been suggested that instead of requiring modification of the init > scripts at all, this logic should be provided by the upstart package in a > /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/ fragment that automatically DTRT. If I wan