Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:21:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Is that as "easy" as running current GNOME without systemd, which is > surely possible? Much easier. Note that if you want GNOME without systemd, it required actual effort instead of doing petty jabs on mailing lists. Actual effort was

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:03:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > It's not that anybody needs to listen, but nobody is going to tell me > to shut up just because I only know how the result of a job should > look like without being able to do the job myself. Having a detailed discussion about how syste

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:19:41PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > I meanwhile see the systemd issue as a social problem within debian. There are > design issues which are REALLY controversial. In the past Debian did good by > delaying adoption of controversial technical issues e.g. devfs and waited

Re: peace of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:25:47AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Am I missing something, or are statements like this fraught with much > headscratching and bewilderment? : > > "Note that this is a promise, not an eternal guarantee." > > > [0] > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/system

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:14:35AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > These features cannot exist separately. > > If that is the case, then they should not be provided at all. > > That is a core disagreement here; the systemd upstream plainly rank > those as features more valuable than either the pri

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be > a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue > might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly for Debian and its ways > and for what it stands f

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:41:00PM +0100, Mirosław Baran wrote: > Olav, would you mind to clarify in what capacity are you on this list? > (Debian user? Debian maintainer? Debian developer? GNOME upstream > developer? > Systemd developer? Interested independent party? Something else > altogether?)

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:12:02PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Olav Vitters (2014-08-11 11:21:14) > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> Quite a few places in the World have poor and/or expensive internet > >> access.

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 07:30:49PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Olav Vitters (o...@vitters.nl) [140808 19:12]: > > [ support for init systems bedside systemd ] > > > There was also a question what should happen if *upstream* removes > > support. That's not up to De

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 05:05:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 04:41:13PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:59:29PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > If I understand right, new upower basically throws away most of its > >

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 04:19:42PM +0200, Axel Wagner wrote: > that just my anecdotal evidence. As is my suspicion, that the vast > majority of people who actually chose GNOME for it's technical merrits > over XFCE are not people who will ever be participating in really *any* > flamewar, as they ar

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:59:29PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > If I understand right, new upower basically throws away most of its > functionality, telling its users to use systemd instead. That's an idea > that's neither good nor acceptable. I see you want to start a discussion about systemd?

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 10:56:50PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hmm, pre-warning if there are no fixes is not enough. > > Let me ask you - why is libpng still holding back so many other things? > Because not all png deps are converted. And we are speaking about years. > > And just for practi

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:41:09AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Downstream health > > > > Upstream health > > > > Community > > > > Security > > > > Privacy > > > > Documentation > > I don't think these are very useful criteria, unless they lead to > actual technical iss

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:39:44PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Of course, this dire situation has come upon us due to the strong > interleaving of Gnome and Systemd and upower maintainers, uploading > without making sure not to break the rest of the infrastructure. In the original email it wa

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 01:48:55AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Incidentially, I don't much appreciate the counterproductive sniping > that Jordi added in his blog post about this. Perhaps you're not aware, > Jordi, but switching to xfce was discussed at last DebConf. It was not > done "announced in a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:11:04PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > GNOME flashback AFAIK is a Debian thing. For sure it is NOT part of > > GNOME. We do have GNOME classic, but you already know that. I'm a bit > > conf

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 01:17:46AM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > >From my point of view, GNOME Flashback just doesn't have enough love > from --pretty much-- anybody; this includes the GNOME team: no news > about GNOME Flashback in the 3.10 or 3.12 release notes (it was first > released in 3.8).

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:06:46PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > o GNOME classic/fallback/flashback has become obsolete by upstream AFAIK GNOME classic is maintained, it is a set of extensions against gnome-shell. Some distributions renamed fallback as classic, resulting in some confusion. > The

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: > On 28 Mar 2014 03:40, Olav Vitters wrote: > [...] > > > I can tell you right now, it is *vastly more difficult* to try to > > > adapt programs modified to work with systemd in their current state, > >

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: > On 26 March 2014 10:13, Cameron Norman wrote: > [...] > > That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind > > API and its single implementation. Perhaps a subset of the logind API for > > use by desktop envi

Re: Trust and systemd (was Re: Bug#727708, et cetera)

2014-02-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:12:09AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > (Exactly what those principles are, and/or what decisions I would have > rejected because of them, would indeed be necessary in a discussion > about trying to resolve that disagreement. However, I am not presently > trying to do that;

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:57:57PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Oh really? You get per-application mixing, dynamic output redirection, > > bluetooth support, network transparency, all of that with alsa+dmix? > No, but per application mixing with no sound coming out from the speakers is > not

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
Maybe time for both to agree to take this offlist or just not continue? I don't think anyone means any harm, but arguing will just result in bad blood IMO. -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:28:49PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Please do your homework yourself and stop asking the same > questions over and over again. Agree, I explained various things already in the same thread. There are indications of people who indicate they don't like the amo

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:57:53PM +0400, Oleg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:26:39PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 02/12/2014 11:33 AM, Oleg wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:37:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > >> On the other hand, what companies and di

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:54PM +0400, Oleg wrote: > A small part of a distro dev team choose to use a systemd and others users are > simply forced to use it. Kind of empty speak. In any distribution you have a small amount of people who contribute loads of time. E.g. ctte people, etc. If they

Re: its developers and its users. [was: something from util-linux]

2014-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:48:12PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > gdm3 for example does, via systemd-logind, why don't you search for bugs > caused by that package! Anyone is free to provide an alternative. There is a fork and it is planned as an alternative. That GNOME depends on a dbus interface

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:38:16PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: > >>5) After all, I don't see why writing 1 regexp is a hard task. And > >>it won't be really slower because of (4). > > > >A regexp is unreliable and slow. Lots of ssh blocking tools have had > >various security issues due to this.

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:48:07AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > vita...@yourcmc.ru: > >> Because I want logs to be plaintext in my system, not binary. > >> > > Why? (Seriously.) > > To use standard text based tools, e

Re: Proposal: SystemD.pushers/forcers be physically beaten as revenge.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:18:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 02:46:13PM -0500, Maas Verri wrote: > > Proposal: SystemD pushers/forcers be physically beaten as revenge. > > It *should* go without saying, but I want to make it clear that as an > upstart developer, I find

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:57:18PM +0400, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: > 2) Binary index isn't needed at all if you just want to print output > of a service - you can just put output of each unit to its own log > file and just tail it. Now show everything of a particular user. Systemd allows you to d

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > Well if a bug can be solved by killing the buggy process and getting better > functionality than when the process is running is certainly a very very bad > bug! As mentioned before: File a bug. -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:30:24PM +0400, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: > Because I want logs to be plaintext in my system, not binary. Install syslog. Or maybe Debian will use both journal and syslog. > And I don't see why a binary log format is needed to implement the > stderr capture. Try to find

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:05:48AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > I think this touches on - or possibly misses - a key point. I don't think so. > I do not trust the systemd project to not do things I consider bad or > even insane, because they've already done such things, and they show no > regret

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:06:39PM +0400, Oleg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:27:04AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > It's not *my* choice, systemd is the choice of the majority of the > > Linux community. OpenRC and upstart are used in Gentoo and Ubuntu > > What? I see many peo

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:18:23PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > systemd dependencies of course, the vendor lock-in strategy is > successful: (the packages below are all from the source systemd) [..] > Do you want more examples? You skipped over the bit explaining: - where the vendor lock in is?

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:02:13PM +0400, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: > >QR codes is optional > >Built-in HTTP server is optional > > > >Binary logging - yeah, it logs stuff. Calling logging > >functionality in a > >program which is meant to log things is a bit much. > > It's not just "calling loggi

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:27:04AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > And this is very much what I would see in Debian. Use your desktop > and applications of choice and you will get support, but if you > want to change core components, you are free to do so, but you > will lose support. [

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:51:13PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: > I think Debian project is significant enough to have some influence > on systemd development, i.e. at least send patches, and in this case - Debian has sent patches upstream - Mageia is *much* smaller distribution, that packager h

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:09:10PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: > I.e. for example, systemd-journal looks like the most bloated part > of systemd to me, with its binary log format, QR codes and built-in > HTTP server - so maybe it could be disabled via a patch? Or even > packaged separately so yo

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:49:56AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Additionally a very good proposal for a PID 1 program was in > http://ewontfix.com/14/ "Broken by design: systemd", copied here for > convenience: I like how people copy/paste blog articles. Did you read this article? It completely

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

2013-11-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 08:20:58PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Matthias Urlichs dixit: > > >A systemd service file is five lines. > > Someone has shown that this works with sysvinit as well, > if you use #!/path/to/some-helper as shebang. Nice theory, but in practice it is a mess. That peopl

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:37:35PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Of course they do even if the couple of people possibly concerned with > it that I know use.. is it Citrix? I was merely pointing out that it > is an extremely small minority of Debian users but possibly? a majority Do you have any

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:37:02AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Olav Vitters vitters.nl> writes: > > > Most of systemd is not in pid1. This was explained by a blog references > > But (by the time of the jessie freeze, at least) it will need systemd to > be pid1 to

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

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:23:11PM +, Mirosław Baran wrote: > > > Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > >For those who haven't seen it, Lennart has posted some of his comments > >about all this on G+: > >https://plus.google.com/u/0/115547683951727699051/posts/8RmiAQsW9qf > > And the RH PR circu

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:58:16PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > E.g. XFCE either wants ConsoleKit, or logind. If you look at ConsoleKit, > > > > you'll notice it is NOT maintained. > > > > > > XFCE *needs* neither and in fact the vast vast majority of users do > > > not either. > > >

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:29:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op 25-10-13 15:43, Olav Vitters schreef: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:23PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> There is no good reason other than "that's the way GNOME has been > >> written&

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:41:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's a (very!) fair argument, but there's nothing in that argument > which means it absolutely totally *has* to be part of a pid1 Most of systemd is not in pid1. This was explained by a blog references on debian-devel a while ago

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

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:23:33PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > (Also, do remember that any decisive outcome other than “support > multiple ones including systemd” and “systemd-only” will need to > lead to the removal of GNOME from Debian. I won’t miss it, but > just saying.) Whatever CTTE and,

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:14:57AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > E.g. XFCE either wants ConsoleKit, or logind. If you look at ConsoleKit, > > you'll notice it is NOT maintained. > > XFCE *needs* neither and in fact the vast vast majority of users do > not either. I check the spec files for Fed

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 07:12:21PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > (As far as I can tell this is the actual root of the problem, at least > for this iteration of the argument: the fact that logind now requires > systemd.) That's due to cgroups change. There seem to be 2 other potential implementation

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:37:50PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I don't mean to be rude but please read up on systemd and see the pros > of cons such as on LWN.net comments or any distro mailing list as many > are tired of systemd discussion and this wide ranging and much of the > stolen/borrowed

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 02:12:11AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > Indeed. And given the train wreck of contemporary Gnome, I fully welcome the > discussion on alternative default desktops. Some people are keen to rule out > the stakeholder issues, but a fact on the so-called agenda remains. I sugg

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I'm fed up with repeated attempts to force components on the rest of the > > system, but that's mostly a fault of Gnome's upstream > > There seems to be a trend emanating from packages involving RedHat devs. > I actually went to t

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:53:35PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > They choose the way most easy for them, which is behavior often > encountered inside the systemd-favoring community. Too bad. You mean ConsoleKit with this? Why GNOME? Do you know it is on freedesktop.org? Do you know there hasn't been

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:06:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > That is my gripe, that's the core problem in GNOME. It's why I stopped > trying to develop code to work alongside GNOME and only work with XFCE > and Qt. GNOME upstream are toxic. XFCE is same as GNOME: - Supports ConsoleKit - Suppor

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:15:28PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:54:47 +0200, Olav Vitters > wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:38:56AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> found it usable even in 1.x days), is also true for GNOME: it > >> is

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:38:56AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > found it usable even in 1.x days), is also true for GNOME: it > is said to disable the ability of users to theme and customise > it, and Torvalds’ opinions are well-known.) GNOME tweak tool has existed since GNOME 3. It has been re

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:39:03AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Hi there, Olav, thanks for contributing to the discussion, > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > I don't see this happening, at all. When the GNOME release team is asked > &

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:14:41AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > maintenance. I seriously doubt that us switching away from Gnome will > have a detectable negative impact on Gnome's rate of development, so the > average quality of our offerings on the desktop, and the quality of that > choice for a

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:23PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > There is no good reason other than "that's the way GNOME has been > written". So change the code and get GNOME to behave properly. Because you raise this again: - No maintenance on ConsoleKit since 1.5 years, despite me/GNOME raising

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:40:35PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > So to me the classc/fallback frontier seems to be a rather dark field... > it's nice that you guys try to keep it working in Debian, but quite > apparently GNOME upstream wants to ultimately get rid of it, and that > *will*

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:52:16AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > Simple question: logind is maintained, ConsoleKit is not. I have not > > seen anyone raise this. Why? > > That one is easy. Both are written by the same predominantly mayor > author and in some ways one project is superset of th

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:33:56PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Seems I misunderstood what logind was about. I thought it would force to > use specific Xdm implementations that would support it. So you do > confirm that it's not the case, and that we aren't forced into using > GDM? Or is it that

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. > > I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away > from here, since the flames do not need even more coals to burn higher.

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two > in order to force adoption of systemd. There are obviously others who GNOME is not. And I'm speaking as a GNOME release team member. A video of GNOME 3.10 ru

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:33:34PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I know of my own tickets I've reported upstream and how outrageously > GNOME deals with some critical things... Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean with "outrageously"? Do you mean some

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 08:53:07AM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't > even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this > whole thread. I was just curious, not suggesting. I also asked this on an IRC channel and

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:26:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Of course it won't. Upstream and Red Hat have shown many times that > they just don't care. I've already replied with various examples before refuting this. -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.de

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:59:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I can't speak to other distributions, but in Debian, the systemd maintainers > are in no position to decide that Debian will agree to rewrite its > system-level integration code (which works quite well already, I meant more that: -

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:38:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > development (because unlike the systemd developers, the upstart developers > aren't trying to sell anyone a bill of goods about how their existing units > are perfect and nothing will ever need to be patched downstream). But there

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:27:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:16:53 +0200, Olav Vitters > wrote: > >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:21:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> The init system case is special because supporting another init script > >>

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 30, Mathieu Parent wrote: > > Do you have an example? > The /etc/ /lib/ /usr/lib/ split with files overriding each other, > invented because RPM systems do not prompt the user on package upgrades > and Red Hat does not suppor

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:21:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > The init system case is special because supporting another init script > system will most probably mean that all packages delivering an init > script ($ ls /etc/init.d/ | wc -l => 116 on my small notebook system) > will have to adapt. Th

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:22:34PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > This is the case with software that has a cooperative upstream. > systemd's upstream is known not to be. I've seen as well as attended various conferences where systemd was explained. There have also been various systemd specific events

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:51:11PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 06:46:46 -0400, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > >Even if they are using a system > >that allows them to go back and review their notification history when they > >return to their system, > > It just occurred to me that

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If we're making something GNOME-specific, we don't do that. If we make > an application that fits into any fdo-compliant notification area, we do. Within GNOME we usually create a freedesktop.org solution, then use that within GNOM

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:31:22PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Btw, I fear that systemd's binary logs are going to import this method > of inefficient work in our world. I surely hope I am wrong on this > count. journalctl gives pretty much exactly the same output as /var/log/messages and so on. As

Re: optimizing PNGs

2013-05-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:28:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > Long term plan (for GNOME) is doing away with differences between > > tarball contents and git repository. > > Does that mean switching away from auto

Re: optimizing PNGs

2013-05-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:56:06PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > A while ago, someone raised the possibility of recompressing PNG files. > Unlike xz, this would save space not only on mirrors but also on live > installed systems. PNGs are nearly incompressible so this is mostly > independent from

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:29:27AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Blog posts are interesting to read, but at times I'd like to look up > reference manuals which are more than bear minimal man pages. Whilst > systemd ships manpages, the website has either incorrectly formatted > wiki-pages and/or

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:07:06AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'm still not convinced. Don't trust the lies from Lennart, the git > clone tells the truth: As a mostly lurker, I think there was already a request to be a bit more polite on this mailing list. The is a big difference between someo

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:22:12AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Ubuntu carries patches downstream to make logind work without systemd > but with upstart instead, but I don't think that doing that is a sane > solution. Various GNOME code incorrectly checked for systemd-as-init before using login

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:23:52PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Gah! Just because the other FLOS idiots are doing it doesn’t mean > Debian should follow. Do you also have technical objections or some kind of reasoning behind this? -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:08:05PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > You have a point here. The problem is that people need to change their > operations, which is hard for many people, let alone the case when > emergency manuals need to be changed just for the sake of satisfying > Lennart. There are vari