Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:04:46AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I don't think so. I think it encourages to be more easy going, and have fun, but never mind. Let's keep Debian boring^W^Wportland weird. :) Would you feel the same if someone were to, say, upload a hurd-must-die package? Kind

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 05:01:13PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:04:46AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: I don't think so. I think it encourages to be more easy going, and have fun, but never mind. Let's keep Debian boring^W^Wportland weird. :) Would you feel the

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iun 14, 01:56:20, Thomas Goirand wrote: You're not seriously suggesting dpkg would sneak a package on your system behind your back, do you? I believe he's only suggesting that having a package installed with a Conflict: is harder to break (even by mistake) than just some apt

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-02 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Clint Adams: If you're going for non-boring entertainment value, have you considered i-am-a-kneejerk-idiot-[...] Please adhere to the Code of Conduct. -- -- Matthias Urlichs signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:10:51AM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:53:06AM +0100, Wookey wrote: But OK. I get it - this is still too contentious to have any room for this sort of foolishness and if it's to exist at all it'll have to be called something boring. That's a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:53:06AM +0100, Wookey wrote: But OK. I get it - this is still too contentious to have any room for this sort of foolishness and if it's to exist at all it'll have to be called something boring. That's a little sad, but we'll all survive. This isn't supposed to be a

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Matthias (2014.06.26_08:38:09_+0200) Of these, roughly 20% have switched to systemd. And they apparently did not and do not have any problem with it, otherwise we'd hear about it. Here and other places. Quite loudly. Not necessarily. My laptop won't boot with systemd, although other

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 08:15, Stefano Rivera wrote: Hi Matthias (2014.06.26_08:38:09_+0200) Of these, roughly 20% have switched to systemd. And they apparently did not and do not have any problem with it, otherwise we'd hear about it. Here and other places. Quite loudly. Not

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 13:01, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 08:15, Stefano Rivera wrote: Hi Matthias (2014.06.26_08:38:09_+0200) Of these, roughly 20% have switched to systemd. And they apparently did not and do not have any problem with it, otherwise we'd hear about it.

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/30/2014 05:43 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Thomas Goirand +1 for keeping the name which is funny What's funny about an OS stating publicly that a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Norbert Preining
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: I don't think so. I think it encourages to be more easy going, and have fun, but never mind. Let's keep Debian boring^W^Wportland weird. :) +1 Fun is missing, humour even more. Norbert

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
+1 :) On Jul 1, 2014 6:39 PM, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: I don't think so. I think it encourages to be more easy going, and have fun, but never mind. Let's keep Debian boring^W^Wportland weird. :) +1 Fun is missing, humour even

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Wookey
+++ Stefano Zacchiroli [2014-06-30 11:43 +0200]: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Thomas Goirand +1 for keeping the name which is funny What's funny about an OS stating publicly that a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:53:06AM +0100, Wookey wrote: But OK. I get it - this is still too contentious to have any room for this sort of foolishness and if it's to exist at all it'll have to be called something boring. That's a little sad, but we'll all survive. This isn't supposed to be a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-01 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Stefano Zacchiroli [2014-06-30 11:43 +0200]: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Thomas Goirand +1 for keeping the name

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand +1 for keeping the name which is funny No, it's not. It's offensive to those of us who spend time on making systemd integration in Debian be as good as possible. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Thomas Goirand +1 for keeping the name which is funny No, it's not. It's offensive to those of us who spend time on making systemd integration in Debian be as good as possible. It's also offensive to those who think

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Thomas Goirand +1 for keeping the name which is funny What's funny about an OS stating publicly that a specific piece of Free software---shipped and installed

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not necessarily, anyway) You're not seriously

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:01:00 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: … We have decided to use systemd as the default. … s/We have/The tech-ctte has/. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Guillem Jover: On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:01:00 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: … We have decided to use systemd as the default. … s/We have/The tech-ctte has/. … and everybody else decided to not challenge their resolution, at the very least. Anti-systemd(-author) rants nonwithstanding.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/29/2014 05:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iun 14, 14:33:49, Wookey wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from a separate repo should not be necessary. No need

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 09:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 26 iun 14, 14:33:49, Wookey wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 juin 2014 10:56 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com : systemd-must-die_8_all.deb already conflicts with nine packages: Conflicts: libpam-systemd, live-config-systemd, python-systemd, systemd, systemd-cron, systemd-gui, systemd-shim, systemd-sysv, systemd-ui Why systemd-shim?

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 10:56:24, Svante Signell wrote: The disadvantage with this approach is that you need an entry for every package you don't want installed. No, you want to make use of the support for globs or regexes, see apt_preferences(5). systemd-must-die_8_all.deb already conflicts

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 27 juin 2014, 23.02:51 Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 06/27/2014 06:31 PM, Michael Englehorn wrote: Wouldn't glibc then fall into the list of things you don't like as a required framework? By that logic, all libraries must be hot-swappable with no additional effort by the

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 28 juin 2014 à 11:08 +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit : Why systemd-shim? Do you really need to ask why? There’s systemd in the name, therefore it must be *evil*, man. It has to be part of a conspiracy to take over the world and remove our freedom to make all executables setuid root! --

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 juin 2014 12:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org : Why systemd-shim? Do you really need to ask why? There’s systemd in the name, therefore it must be *evil*, man. It has to be part of a conspiracy to take over the world and remove our freedom to make all executables setuid

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not necessarily, anyway) • aptitude has been known to ignore the view dpkg/apt have on the system, e.g.

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juin 2014 à 15:58 +0100, Alastair McKinstry a écrit : On 26/06/2014 15:33, Marco d'Itri wrote: A few people said this about udev as well. Now they use udev. ... and complain or suffer in silence. Don't take popcon as a measure of people being happy to use a critical dependency

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery wrote: Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org writes: Yes, I fully agree. But _please_ also realise that there are people, a non-neglibile number of them, for whom these frameworks are not an improvement, and who wish to be not forced to use them. That's fine for you to feel that way,

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 26/06/2014 17:43, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: udev itself is disabled in scripts as it keeps crashing on my hardware. (Old powerpc server). Which bug number is this? This is a bug that I _think_ (following the lists) has since been fixed

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-06-27, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: But this is precisely why we're in an OSS movement here. We can change this, and we should, so that the other solutions do *not* die out. We should *not* accept the might of the others all do this! The way is to put your time/money where

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Svante Signell
Before this part of the thread dies out, can anybody comment on this, Simon, Ansgar, Jean-Christophe, ...? On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 16:32 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 13:53 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On 26/06/14 13:33, Svante Signell wrote: Of course with the additional

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Michael Englehorn
On 6/27/2014 3:59 AM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: On 26/06/2014 17:43, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: udev itself is disabled in scripts as it keeps crashing on my hardware. (Old powerpc server). Which bug number is this? This is a bug that I

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Sune Vuorela wrote: The way is to put your time/money where your mouth is and provide the code. Asking others to do all the work is not the way forward in OSS. I highly doubt you can call _me_ someone who does not do work in OSS. You know, methods to clone a human being, time turners, etc. have

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Marco d'Itri [2014-06-26 16:29 +0200]: On Jun 26, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
My fear is that systemd + friends are becoming a required framework, subverting the Unix ethos of a bunch of co-operating tools and libraries. It becomes increasing impossible to simply replace a component I might disagree with, or that breaks my use case, with one I develop because of all the

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On 27/06/14 10:53, Svante Signell wrote: Before this part of the thread dies out, can anybody comment on this, Simon, Ansgar, Jean-Christophe, ...? On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 16:32 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Maybe I'm naive but doesn't utmp(5) solve this problem? who(1) tells me in clear-text

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:43:15AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: The way is to put your time/money where your mouth is and provide the code. Asking others to do all the work is not the way forward in OSS. I highly doubt you can call _me_ someone who does not do work in

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 06/27/2014 11:53, Svante Signell wrote: Before this part of the thread dies out, can anybody comment on this, Simon, Ansgar, Jean-Christophe, ...? I think my earlier answer [1] covers this. [1] https://lists.debian.org/53ac237f.7080...@debian.org Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/27/2014 06:31 PM, Michael Englehorn wrote: Wouldn't glibc then fall into the list of things you don't like as a required framework? By that logic, all libraries must be hot-swappable with no additional effort by the end-user. That's just not realistic. -Michael Are you aware that

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org writes: Yes, I fully agree. But _please_ also realise that there are people, a non-neglibile number of them, for whom these frameworks are not an improvement, and who wish to be not forced to use

Re: Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
The interesting dependency chain is: Simon, thank you very much for this mail and the two ones following it. Your objectiveness and choice of words in this heated debate is really appreciated! Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Norbert Preining: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrcshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will. Everyone using Gnome -

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 18:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : And logind replacements have not appeared yet, as expected. Because this is a misstatement of the problem. Logind works systemd-shim today. If it works as well as logind without systemd as pid 1 in earlier versions (leading

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:41:17AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 18:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : And logind replacements have not appeared yet, as expected. Because this is a misstatement of the problem. Logind works systemd-shim today. If it works as

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Simon McVittie dixit quod... On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other architectures? [...] In Debian 7, PolicyKit could answer the question is Svante logged-in

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery dixit quod... Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: [ startx ] a virtual console, a locked X screensaver is worthless, because someone can just switch virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+Fn, press Ctrl+C and they're in your shell session. This doesn't change anything else that you

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juin 2014 à 08:31 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Can we have alternative dependencies that do not need to get answers to these questions? This worked before *kit were even invented, and this works on other OSes too. No, it didn’t work. You had to be root for operations as simple

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org writes: For the record, I would be happy with a supported setup without systemd that relied on using startx, and putting people into the desktop unix groups manually. I don't think startx and fvwm are going anywhere, so, um, enjoy? :) fvwm doesn't depend on

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 26 June 2014 01:36, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote: I used the word Insidious as I would have use Stealth, because it's happening slowly, without us noticing, that everything in Debian is being locked with systemd. Soon, we'll have no choice. This is why you should stop fighting: systemd

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting down the computer. Only on Debian. OpenBSD and MirBSD have: -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 122716 Sep 10 2013 /sbin/shutdown* I never understood why Debian doesn't. bye, //mirabilos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrew Shadura: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+sysvinitshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%Y-%mbeenhere=1 Sorry, but this only demonstrates that you don't know what you're talking about. For a comparison

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 06/26/2014 11:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting down the computer. Only on Debian. OpenBSD and MirBSD have: -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 122716 Sep 10 2013 /sbin/shutdown* I never understood why Debian doesn't.

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:59 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 06/26/2014 11:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting down the computer. Only on Debian. OpenBSD and MirBSD have: -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 122716 Sep 10

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being aware. Where is this package? I'm not finding it in testing or the pts? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro,

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 juin 2014 à 09:34 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting down the computer. Only on Debian. OpenBSD and MirBSD have: -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 122716 Sep 10 2013 /sbin/shutdown* I never understood

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being aware. Where is this package? I'm not finding it in

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Matthias Urlichs [2014-06-26 11:58 +0200]: Hi, Andrew Shadura: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+sysvinitshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%Y-%mbeenhere=1 Sorry, but this only demonstrates that you

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:45 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Matthias Urlichs [2014-06-26 11:58 +0200]: Hi, Which shows about a change from 'peak sysvinit-core' in mid-april: Mid april Now sysvinit-core:89% 81% systemd-sysv: 6% 19% A question: If you uninstall a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 26/06/2014 12:05 ] [ ✎ Svante Signell ] On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:59 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 06/26/2014 11:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting down the computer. Only on Debian. OpenBSD and MirBSD have:

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:02:15 +0200 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:45 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Matthias Urlichs [2014-06-26 11:58 +0200]: Hi, Which shows about a change from 'peak sysvinit-core' in mid-april: Mid april Now

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 14:03 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: [ ⏰ 26/06/2014 12:05 ] [ ✎ Svante Signell ] On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:59 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 06/26/2014 11:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On 26/06/14 13:33, Svante Signell wrote: Of course with the additional check that the students are logged in to that box locally, did I forget to mention that? Apparently yes. So you'll still need some solution to is this user local? - either an implementation of the systemd-logind API

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Wookey wrote: +++ Matthias Urlichs [2014-06-26 11:58 +0200]: Hi, Andrew Shadura: [14]http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+sysvinitshow_installed=onwant_legend=o nwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%Y-%mbeenhere=1 Sorry, but this only

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:59 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 06/26/2014 11:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: No, it didn't work. You had to be root for operations as simple as shutting down the computer. Only on Debian. OpenBSD and MirBSD have: -r-sr-x--- 1 root

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2014-06-26 12:31 +0200]: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-24 19:57 +0200]: I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: So that students can do eg ssh mybuddymachine /sbin/shutdown ? (and they need to be able to shutdown their own machine, power is not free). Why do people always think that a proposal will automatically exclude all others? In your student scenario, you do *not* add

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Simon McVittie wrote: tl;dr: these frameworks were not invented just to troll you, they do have a purpose :-) Yes, I fully agree. But _please_ also realise that there are people, a non-neglibile number of them, for whom these frameworks are not an improvement, and who wish to be not forced to use

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 06/26/2014 14:33, Svante Signell wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 14:03 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: [ ⏰ 26/06/2014 12:05 ] [ ✎ Svante Signell ] On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:59 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 06/26/2014 11:34, Thorsten Glaser wrote: No, it didn't work. You had to be

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 26/06/2014 15:34 ] [ ✎ Thorsten Glaser ] Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: So that students can do eg ssh mybuddymachine /sbin/shutdown ? (and they need to be able to shutdown their own machine, power is not free). Why do people always think that a proposal will automatically exclude all

systemd-must-die (was Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian)

2014-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Wookey worte: [11]http://users.unixforge.de/~tglaser/debs/dists/etch/wtf/Pkgs/mirabilos-support/ Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 02:33:49PM +0100, Wookey has been seen typing: +++ Svante Signell [2014-06-26 12:31 +0200]: Not in any official Debian repo unfortunately: http://users.unixforge.de/~tglaser/debs/dists/etch/wtf/Pkgs/mirabilos-support/ Can it be uploaded please?

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from a apt-get install equivs -- ciao, Marco

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 13:53 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On 26/06/14 13:33, Svante Signell wrote: Of course with the additional check that the students are logged in to that box locally, did I forget to mention that? ... or something involving utmp/wtmp/other traditions. utmp(5) says

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Yes, I fully agree. But _please_ also realise that there are people, a non-neglibile number of them, for whom these frameworks are not an improvement, and who wish to be not forced to use them. A few people said this about udev as well. Now

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/06/2014 15:33, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jun 26, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Yes, I fully agree. But _please_ also realise that there are people, a non-neglibile number of them, for whom these frameworks are not an improvement,

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: udev itself is disabled in scripts as it keeps crashing on my hardware. (Old powerpc server). Which bug number is this? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: systemd-must-die (was Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian)

2014-06-26 Thread Alessio Treglia
On 26 Jun 2014 15:05, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: content of its own. I believe it does not need to be in Debian itself, technically, but I agree to upload it if its presence is desired politically (even to wheezy-backports). Personally I would love it. Cheers. -- Alessio

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org writes: Yes, I fully agree. But _please_ also realise that there are people, a non-neglibile number of them, for whom these frameworks are not an improvement, and who wish to be not forced to use them. That's fine for you to feel that way, but that feeling does

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2014 02:23 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Norbert Preining
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse dependencies? “Insidious reverse dependencies”? You are

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thomas Goirand: On 06/25/2014 02:23 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought back by insidious reverse

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 22:01 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: You are insinuating that people are surreptitiously adding dependencies on systemd components their packages don’t need, just so that they get installed on your system to piss you

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other architectures? The interesting dependency chain is: policykit-1 Depends libpam-systemd [linux-any] (degraded

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 20:23 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 24 juin 2014 à 19:57 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit : Are there any chances that some version of policykit-1 could stay free from any *systemd* dependency? PolicyKit needs a session tracking mechanism, and with ConsoleKit

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other architectures? The interesting dependency chain is:

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 19:51, Svante Signell wrote: Looks like consolekit is the package fork if such a thing ever happens. There are still patches, mainly for kFreeBSD, from 2013-2014 in the freedesktop BTS since the last release. When was the Debian switch from consolekit to policykit-1 made?

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 20:03, Svante Signell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Upstream developers in various projects increasingly oppose group-based access, because membership of many desktop stuff groups essentially means can ssh in and do bad things to a local user. For

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thomas Goirand: If you don't like that depencendy, it's your job to offer a patch which supports an alternative to that maintainer. It's not reasonable to tell I'm responsible for all of this. This you was meant to refer to the collective set of people who want a supported

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: Orthogonal to that, startx is basically terrible. It only works because /usr/bin/X is setuid root, and that seems Bad™. Also, if you run it from a virtual console, a locked X screensaver is worthless, because someone can just switch virtual console with

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 25, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: I used the word Insidious as I would have use Stealth, because it's happening slowly, without us noticing, that everything in Debian is being locked with systemd. Soon, we'll have no choice. This is why you should stop fighting: systemd has won.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Norbert Preining
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrcshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will. Everyone using Gnome - and that are a lot of users

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2014-06-25 14:03:20 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: This doesn't change anything else that you point out, but that's why you run startx and then log out of the virtual console. On my workstations and travel machines I have: alias x='startxexit' ...in my ~/.bash_aliases file. Works

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrcshow_installed=onwant_legend=onwant_ticks=onfrom_date=2014-01-01to_date=hlght_date=date_fmt=%25Y-%25mbeenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:22:50AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jun 26, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote:

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