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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 15:51:09, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Sadly not. If I were reading -user entirely for my own delectation, I'd have > filtered many regulars long ago. Or simply stopped reading it, since I rarely > ask questions anyway. But I, and I imagine many of my DD colleagues, are > particul

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:35:34 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: > > So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in > > libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM > > functionalities run properly? > > Thank you for the clarifi

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: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:03:07, Martin Read wrote: > > [0] I've seen the relevant fragment posted recently, but I can't remember > where and I don't remember the exact contents. Package: systemd-sysv Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 Explanation: prevent installation of systemd-sysv 'P

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

2014-10-14 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, The Wanderer writes: > Unfortunately, not everyone - or even everyone who would be willing to > provide such feedback, or even actively interested in doing so - is > going to install that. Luckily, popcon is opt-in anyway, so this has no effect whatsoever on it's quality as a data source. B

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

2014-10-14 Thread golinux
On Tue, 10/14/14, Brian wrote: Subject: Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 12:22 PM On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 10:47:13 -0500, goli...@riseup.net wrote: On Tue, 10/14/14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Subject: Re: piece of

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly >>> statements on the postfix list and I'll just sit and watch the fun. > >> You don't read very

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 10:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the >>> entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. > >> Re

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 14:22:03 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >Depends what you mean by "supported". There is no problem in installing > >sysvinit after an upgrade or before upgrading. It works really well. > > "No problem" is easier to say than to validate. > > First off, there's

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 03:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don

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

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:27:14AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:09 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > In a quest to ensure your personal happiness the systemd maintainers > > took your problem and changed udev to assign predictable names to > > network interfaces. > > And which resulte

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:33:06 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: I'm guessing you really don't want an OS without logging... :) syslog works just fine - don't need (or want) systemd to take over logging with a binary format The journal logs to rsyslog by default

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 1:31 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > You're talking past each other. No, we're not, Jerry is arguing arguing against recipient validation on mail servers, and I'm correcting some of the bad/mis-information he is relying on when trying to support his argument. > Still, the current "standard"

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 03:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Gee assuming that you

OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP WAS/IS intended to be reliable. I'd always lumped SMTP in the category of unreliable protocols, w/o guaranteed delivery - but then, being a bit pedantic, I went back to the source RFC 821, SMTP, authored by Jon Postel, and

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:33:06 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >I'm guessing you really don't want an OS without logging... :) > > syslog works just fine - don't need (or want) systemd to take over > logging with a binary format The journal logs to rsyslog by default on De

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM functionalities run properly? Thank you for the clarification. The short and vague answer is "no"; PAM modules that depend on

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Joel Rees
Oh, dear. Somebody is WRONG on the Internet! You're talking past each other. Still, the current "standard" e-mail protocols were never meant to be either reliable or secure, and their is a very good reason for that. People may not be as reliable as machines in executing protocols, but they cannot

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 10:47:13 -0500, goli...@riseup.net wrote: > On Tue, 10/14/14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Subject: Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 1:56 AM > > You are still writing as i

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd dependencies and/or systemd-shim

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 04:29:50 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:50:32 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > > Joey Hess writes: > > > > > > > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. > > > > > >

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly >> statements on the postfix list and I'll just sit and watch the fun. > You don't read very well. This has nothing to do with emails to a v

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd > dependencies > and/or systemd-s

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

2014-10-14 Thread golinux
On Tue, 10/14/14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Subject: Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 1:56 AM You are still writing as if you are going to be forced to run systemd, despite being repeatedly told that multiple init

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:37:30 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? > > > > PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They > > c

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They could have made their PAM plug compatible with the old PAM, but nooo. I f

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

2014-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/14 16:06, Steve Litt wrote: > > 1) Boycott (and be vocal about it) Gnome > > 2) Pressure all other upstreams into a "no systemd dependencies" >pledge, and to the best of our abilities, boycott (and be vocal about >it) those who don't comply. > Well, you should have no problem w

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

2014-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:50:32 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > Joey Hess writes: > > > > > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. > > > > And just ignore it and the consequences because you're tired of > > thinking abo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 11:09 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > In a quest to ensure your personal happiness the systemd maintainers > took your problem and changed udev to assign predictable names to > network interfaces. And which resulted in much wailing and gnashing of teeth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 10:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the >> entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. > Rejection can happen after the DATA phase as well.

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:46:11PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: I assume you find it more productive to bury your head in the sand about potential impacts of really major changes to the plumbing of a platform, and wait for things to break after-the-fact? I suspect Steve

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/13/2014 9:53 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> Not a grey area at all. "...dropping mail > without notification of the >> sender is permitted...". As for the "...long tradition and community >> expectations..." - that's nice, but according to some estima

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi Miles, On 10/14/2014 16:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Actually, udev is the ONLY thing I've had issues with in over a decade of production use. Changed out a nic card, and everything changed - because udev decided to assign the new interface to some other port (or some s

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 01:51, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, >> he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem >> solved. > > Sadly not. If I were reading -user

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:51:09 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a > > minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. > > Problem solved. > > Sadly not. If

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:33:56 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 10:40:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 > > > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your > > > p

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

2014-10-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Miles, On 10/14/2014 16:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Actually, udev is the ONLY thing I've had issues with in over a decade > of production use. Changed out a nic card, and everything changed - > because udev decided to assign the new interface to some other port (or > some such - it's been a w

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 14:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: Which brings us back to how upgrades and new installs will be handled - will there be an option to go right to sysvinit-core, or will we have to manually uninstall systemd and anything that depends on it? Getting all the metapackages and dependencies righ

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd > > dependencies and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept > > up-to-date. > > Have you actually looked in

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:56:17 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > You are still writing as if you are going to be forced to run > systemd, despite being repeatedly told that multiple init systems > will be supported. I'm really struggling to continue to presume "good > faith" on your part now. Hi Jo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd dependencies and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept up-to-date. Have you actually l

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the > entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. Rejection can happen after the DATA phase as well. It's better if spam can be identified and rejected befo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, > he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem > solved. Sadly not. If I were reading -user entirely for my own delectation, I'd have filtered

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 10:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:05:00AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> To bounce all of those invalid addresses not only would further >>> increase the amount of junk on the internet, >> That is pure and absolute nonsense. The vast majority of spam comes f

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:50:32 +0200 lee wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. > > And just ignore it and the consequences because you're tired of > thinking about it? Lee, he has a point. He sees nothing wrong with a Red Hat owned and co

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:05:00AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > To bounce all of those invalid addresses not only would further > > increase the amount of junk on the internet, > > That is pure and absolute nonsense. The vast majority of spam comes from > botnets, and *rejecting* garbage from these

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd >>> dependencies >>> and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept up-to-date. >> Have you actually looked in

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

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 09:44 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:08:06AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> In my case, I don't install popcon because it pollutes the >> tab-completion namespace for 'popd' in a root shell. That >> interferes with my workflow to the point that I've reluctant

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

2014-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:08:06AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > In my case, I don't install popcon because it pollutes the > tab-completion namespace for 'popd' in a root shell. That interferes > with my workflow to the point that I've reluctantly decided to just not > install popcon - with the un

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

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 09:26 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 13:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? >> >> Trying to. >> >> As a start - anything that depends on udev and logging come to >> mind; > > Strictly speakin

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Martin Read wrote: On 14/10/14 13:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? Trying to. As a start - anything that depends on udev and logging come to mind; Strictly speaking, yes, udev is part of the systemd suite. However, it i

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 13:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? Trying to. As a start - anything that depends on udev and logging come to mind; Strictly speaking, yes, udev is part of the systemd suite. However, it is perfectly capable

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

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/13/2014 at 01:01 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to >> remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should >> also turn out > > Which, I should add, i

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd dependencies and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept up-to-date. Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? Trying to. As a start - a

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/13/2014 7:47 PM, Joel Rees wrote: There is a header for requesting automatic confirmation of delivery, but it tends to be abused by malicious junkmailers (spammers). MUAs are supposed to be able to disable it, but I haven't seen that option in an MUA settings dialog for a

Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/13/2014 9:53 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Not a grey area at all. "...dropping mail > without notification of the > sender is permitted...". As for the "...long tradition and community > expectations..." - that's nice, but according to some estimates, > spammers now account for over 90% of t

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/13/2014 7:47 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > There is a header for requesting automatic confirmation of delivery, > but it tends to be abused by malicious junkmailers (spammers). MUAs > are supposed to be able to disable it, but I haven't seen that option > in an MUA settings dialog for a long time.

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 10:40:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 > > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your > > production servers with sysvinit. > > Okay, for now, that is until mo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 19:46:11, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Of course Joey is correct regarding trying out systemd on a test server. > Personally, though, I find it a lot MORE productive to keep track of other > people's experience in testing things, and deploy after a release is really, > really stable

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

2014-10-14 Thread Mark Carroll
Miles Fidelman writes: > Joey Hess wrote: (snip) >> A reasonably proactive admin would probably want to try out systemd (on >> eg, a test server) and if it causes problems for their deployment, they >> then have at least the year or two from when Debian jessie is released >> until the *next* rele

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd dependencies > and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept up-to-date. Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.or

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 00:47, Joel Rees wrote: There is a header for requesting automatic confirmation of delivery, but it tends to be abused by malicious junkmailers (spammers). MUAs are supposed to be able to disable it, but I haven't seen that option in an MUA settings dialog for a long time. I'm looki

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

2014-10-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Ian Jackson: > You put me in an awkward position. My email was an attempt to get > this discussion shut down on -devel, where it is off-topic and a total > waste of energy. > In that case, you did a poor job of getting this point across. (I misinterpreted it too.) > But your response, using

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:33:11 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: > >> Brian writes: > >> > >>> The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after > >>> that is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on > >>> the rec

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

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:46:11PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I assume you find it more productive to bury your head in the sand > about potential impacts of really major changes to the plumbing of a > platform, and wait for things to break after-the-fact? I suspect Steve will continue to work

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

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation, or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the default installation of systemd?

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

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Marty wrote: On 10/13/2014 07:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debia

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

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Fidelman wrote: > 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will > users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation, > or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the > default installation of systemd? It's not bee

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

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 7:57 PM, lee wrote: > Martin Read writes: > >> On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: >>> Bas Wijnen writes: Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to be seconded by at least 5 other members (constitution 4.2.1, 4.2.7). This has not happened. >>>

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

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Martin Read writes: > On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: >> Bas Wijnen writes: >>> Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to >>> be seconded by at least 5 other members (constitution 4.2.1, 4.2.7). >>> This has not happened. >> >> I know, and I'm suggesting to omit this r

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

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Matthias Urlichs writes: > But please don't just do this in the context of yet another attempt to > express dissatisfaction with the fact that our TC chose systemd: > if you do, I do not think you'll achieve anything except more annoyance > about the fact that we're discussing this *again*, and f

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

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Joey Hess writes: > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. And just ignore it and the consequences because you're tired of thinking about it? > Secondly, Russ Allbrey did an amazing job during the -ctte decision of > weighing systemd vs the alternatives. Has any of this

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

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Matthias Urlichs writes: > Hi, > > lee: >> I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst >> the users (here). > > We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian > members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. I didn't suggest a GR amongst the users, though I d

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

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Joel Rees writes: > Presto: All dissent is fud. Perfectly said, thank you! That the issue isn't entirely clear lies in the nature of the issue. If you are a good admin, you know how to deal with such issues. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swal

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 9:53 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Apologies if this comes through twice - it doesn't look like the first > one made it (and I got no bounce message :) ). > Crap - then I didn't get it threaded properly. Sorry about that, all. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Apologies if this comes through twice - it doesn't look like the first one made it (and I got no bounce message :) ). On 10/13/2014 8:40 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: >>> Brian writes: >>> The mail is accepted. What the recipient does w

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: Brian writes: The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after that is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on the recipient to inform the sender that he has ripped up the mail and junked it. When the MTA

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

2014-10-13 Thread Marty
On 10/13/2014 07:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) re

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 7:18 PM, lee wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding >> emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers >> (any non-rejected email must be a valid user). > > That's totally retarded. When I don

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: > Brian writes: > >> The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after that >> is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on the recipient >> to inform the sender that he has ripped up the mail and junked it. > > When the MTA delivers

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM, lee wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding >> emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers >> (any non-rejected email must be a valid user). > > That's totally retarded. W

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

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve McIntyre wrote: Joey Hess wrote: -=-=-=-=-=- Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of De

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your > production servers with sysvinit. Okay, for now, that is until more packages dec

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: > And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding > emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers > (any non-rejected email must be a valid user). That's totally retarded. When I don't get an error message in return, the messag

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Brian writes: > The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after that > is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on the recipient > to inform the sender that he has ripped up the mail and junked it. When the MTA delivers the mail it accepted correctly, then there i

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

2014-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Miles Fidelman wrote: >> But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to >> do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. > >Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) >release of Debian. So you c

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 9:11 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Although I'm up with patching, but I most definitely don't want any >> system that I am responsible to maintain to have systemd installed, it >> is

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

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot yo

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

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 18:30:41 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > >>On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>>Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >Again.. when di

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

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Fidelman wrote: > But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to > do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your production se

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

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, Debian (and Linux in genera

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

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>> Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, > >>> Debian (and Linux in ge

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

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/14 4:35 "Jonathan Dowland" : > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > If that's true, why the avalanche of dissent now? > > I see a lot of posts, but hardly any posters, and not a great deal of clarity > or consistency about what the complaints are. I also see a

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 6:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:21:24, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> A default desktop install of Jessie will bring in Gnome and as a >> result will also bring in systemd > > Small correction here, just to make i

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:21:24, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > A default desktop install of Jessie will bring in Gnome and as a result > will also bring in systemd Small correction here, just to make it 100% clear: A default install of Jessie will bring in systemd, period. (with or without desktop

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

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > If that's true, why the avalanche of dissent now? I see a lot of posts, but hardly any posters, and not a great deal of clarity or consistency about what the complaints are. I also see a lot of FUD, both about systemd and what Debian

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, >>> Debian (and Linux in general) has been most use

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:47 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >> Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, >> Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in the server >> env

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

2014-10-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:59:24AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Which does kind of lead back to the question of what's the point of > > a social contract that says users and their needs are the priority. > > The point is that

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

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:29 AM, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > Sysvinit-core was introduced in jessie and systemd-sysv conflicts with > sysvinit-core. Systemd-sysv is also available in wheezy, but there are > 24486 reports from the popcon version 1.61 (testing/unsta

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