Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:02:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > I’ve volunteered to help out earlier in the thread, within constraints > > (but rather that than to see things go and break). > > The main problem with sysvinit is

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Note, I can with authority, as the person introducing dependency based > boot and shutdown ordering in Debian, report that insserv were not > introduced for parallell boot, nor for boot speed. It was introduced to > correct broken boot and shutdow

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Borowski, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 18:02:37 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Matthew Vernon wrote: > > >interest/effort in getting sysvinit (and related bits) in a better state > > >for buster, do drop me a line. > > > > I’ve volunteered to he

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 15.10.18, 17:56: > Anyway, I will make Devuan people aware of this discussion. Let's see > whether someone likes to cooperate. As Evilham also pointed out, Devuan people are aware of this discussion already: [devuan-dev] sysvinit in debian is under threat of being dropped fo

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Matthew Vernon wrote: > > >I'm aware of some work ongoing at the moment to try and improve matters > >(currently looking at elongind, for example). If anyone's got some > > What’s elongind? elogind? Never heard of it… elogind is

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 17:49:23 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 17:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It's a matter of people subscribing to the > > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list and discussing there, > > I > > don't see why anything heavier would be needed

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 17:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It's a matter of people subscribing to the > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list and discussing there, > I > don't see why anything heavier would be needed. I thought alioth was no more, but maybe the mailing list remains?

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Evilham, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 16:27:25 +0200, a ecrit: > Where to now? > At devuan-dev, Adam Sampson has suggested that the debian-bsd and > debian-hurd communities are also very interested in keeping non-systemd > things working, Yes, but they aren't populated so much either, with already a lot o

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Evilham
Dear debian-devel, Am 15/10/2018 um 15:20 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > [ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not > set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, > Thorsten… ] > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > [ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not > set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, > Thorsten… ] Thanks… will follow up on those I read up on in the web interface (why is there no NNTP interface

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:20:03PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Is it worth interested parties reaching out to the Devuan project > regarding person-power for sysvinit maintenance? It's hard to discuss this with a straight face, but in any case even they admit they don't have any person-power:

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
[ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, Thorsten… ] On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be removed un

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Holger Levsen writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >> > no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for over 2 years, and h

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Narcis Garcia
Sad to read Debian is walking to be single init software, unlike other more open distros. This is not "The universal operating system" direction. __ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administra