Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion [and 1 more messages]

2024-06-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 7/1/24 04:55, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: - if the NMU author has access to the main git repo of the package on Salsa they can make a commit and tag there (normal team-like maintenance) If we create a method with a low technical barrier for NMUing, we also need to have a discussion about p

Re: tag2upload, reproducible .orig and dfsg repacks

2024-06-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/27/24 01:16, Ian Jackson wrote: Secondsly, there is only currently one supported way to generate an orig: git-deborig aka git-archive. So the protocol in this area is fairly simple, and the possible extension to support other orig generation modes is not described in the document. S

Re: tag2upload, reproducible .orig and dfsg repacks

2024-06-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/27/24 00:41, Russ Allbery wrote: The second case seems fine with tag2upload? Particularly if upstream signs the Git tag. Instead of pointing to a possibly signed release tarball, the tag2upload tag points to a signed upstream Git tag. We get basically the same properties and avoid d

tag2upload, reproducible .orig and dfsg repacks

2024-06-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, We basically have three cases: 1. upstream has an official .orig.tar.* file we can use In my opinion, we'd want to use this because we don't need to explain how it was generated, and any signature from upstream can be used to verify that we are shipping exactly their release. I'm aware

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/26/24 03:42, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Do you actually check that the contents of the source *package* (after all operations done by dpkg-source and possibly other tools) actually match what you were looking at before in your source work tree folder? Yes, although more from a quality c

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/25/24 09:38, Brian May wrote: But like it or not mistakes can happen. e.g. somebody applies a security update to the project. And uploads it to Debian. But forgets to do a git push to salsa. You can only call it "forgetting" to do a git push if you introduce a policy that contributi

Re: Summary of the current state of the tag2upload discussion

2024-06-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/24/24 10:19, Marco d'Itri wrote: I think we have seen and still see with usrmerge how difficult and cumbersome the resolution of an initially as simple presented project turned out. I understand the answer of Scott directed in that way, at least this is a reservation of mine. For th

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/22/24 04:40, Russ Allbery wrote: I am frequently told that Debian is a do-ocracy: the people who are willing to do the work have wide latitude over how that work is done. One of the implications of that is that delegates don't get to force other people to do their work in arbitrarily

Re: What is the source code (was: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload)

2024-06-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Ian, On 6/20/24 23:27, Ian Jackson wrote: I think *usually* the git history is part of the source, but sometimes it isn't (and sometimes it's even harmful and must be discarded). Usually you wouldn't (and shouldn't) rewrite the history, but sometimes you should (and sometimes you must). Ov

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/20/24 02:07, Matthias Urlichs wrote: If dgit becomes the archive, not being able to mirror it is a major regression. It's not quite as trivial as I'd like to pack git archives (shallow or not) so that they can be mirrored and mostly-seamlessly unpacked at the destination, but it's

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/19/24 17:33, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: - we need to store the actual contents in the archive, not just a reference to an online service, or the online service becomes part of the archive. Effectively the dgit.debian.org becomes the archive or the snapshot service of the git view of

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/19/24 00:57, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: This is *exactly* the same situation as we already have with source-only uploads. There is a state of the software upload that the developer signs off on and then there are further technical build artifacts that the developer does *not* sign - they a

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]

2024-06-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/17/24 21:13, Ian Jackson wrote: Your WTF seems to be from a false assumption that git is central to Debian package maintenance. It isn't. It is popular, but not central, nor standardized. git is central to most software maintenance in the world at large. Not all, by any means. But

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/17/24 18:49, Marco d'Itri wrote: There is another aspect he mentioned: he thinks the uploader needs to test the build of the package. (I'm theory I agree, but there are situations Everybody can upload totally untested packages even without tag2upload: maybe tag2upload would

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/17/24 20:38, Jonathan Carter wrote: When it comes to tag2upload, I believe it's something that most people would want. At least it doesn't take away from any existing workflow or force people to change their habits right away, so in terms of being able to gain support for it, it has

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]

2024-06-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/14/24 00:50, Russ Allbery wrote: We have several 90% solutions of mapping Debian packaging onto git, but all of these are incomplete and annoying to use because we disagree with git on what constitutes data, and what constitutes metadata, so the data model does not match reality or req

Re: Security review of tag2upload

2024-06-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/13/24 22:27, Simon Josefsson wrote: Generally I reach the same conclusion, although I think there are real security problems with both the existing and the proposed tag2upload mechanism that we should all be aware of. It is acceptable to realize that we cannot protect against all atta

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]

2024-06-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/13/24 20:29, Marco d'Itri wrote: Do we actually want or need to hoard all the collaboration history? Of course: this makes auditing much easier. That is a *massive* amount of data though, especially if we're expected to import the entire upstream git history as well and base the

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]

2024-06-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Ian, On 6/13/24 18:57, Ian Jackson wrote: (Because git inherently has history, the dgit-repos server can perform both functions at once.) Do we actually want or need to hoard all the collaboration history? Simon

Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

2024-06-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/13/24 06:00, Luca Boccassi wrote: Yes, that's the argument - all Salsa features are bad and "bloat": issues are bad, teams are bad, CIs are bad, merge requests are bad, the only thing needed is to push&pull to some git backend, everything else is bad and unneeded. The requirements fo

Re: call for seconds - separate proposal text for 2023/vote_002

2023-11-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Since my signature got lost on the way, retrying: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > START OF PROPOSAL TEXT > > Debian Public Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the > Product Liability Directive (PLD) > > The CRA includes requirements for manufacturers of

Re: call for seconds - separate proposal text for 2023/vote_002

2023-11-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 23.11.23 03:16, Bart Martens wrote: START OF PROPOSAL TEXT Debian Public Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Product Liability Directive (PLD) The CRA includes requirements for manufacturers of software, followed up by the PLD with compulsory liability for softwar

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11/20/23 08:21, Luca Boccassi wrote: Therefore, the Debian project asks the legislators to enhance the text of these regulations to clarify beyond any reasonable doubt that Free and Open Source Software developers and contributors are not going to be treated as commer

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11/15/23 20:27, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: That is exactly why I think this is dangerous: I want GitLab and Proxmox to be responsible for what they release, but it is very difficult to draw a line between their offering and what Microsoft is doing by paying for system

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11/15/23 15:22, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: The Debian project however notes that not enough emphasis has been employed in all parts of these regulations to clearly exonerate Free and Open Source Software Projects from being subject to the same liabilities as commercial pro

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 13.11.23 19:54, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: So a commercial company releasing open source software that is *not* part of their commercial activity (for example a router manufacturer releasing an in-house written Git UI) would be "supplied outside the course of a commercial activity" and thu

Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

2023-11-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11/13/23 02:47, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Similarly, where the main contributors to free and open-source projects are developers employed by commercial entities and when such developers or the employer can exercise control as to which modifications are accepted in the co

Re: non-main non-firmware software and Debian installation

2022-09-10 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 9/10/22 11:37, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Multiplying installers might be a complexity too far at this or any other stage. We already multiply installers along several axes. Most of these work by simply selecting different file sets and detecting at runtime whether a specific file is p

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 9/8/22 08:00, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: As-is (that is: "changing only SC5 with a 3:1 majority") seems to be one very simple way to express the change we (some of us) want. It's the change we need to do in order to be consistent, so "want" is a pretty strong word here. It is a mar

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-07 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Russ, On 9/7/22 21:58, Russ Allbery wrote: Simon Richter writes: Do users have the right to redistribute the installer? In this proposal it's left unspecified (in other words, it's not an inherent position of the Social Contract one way or the other), mostly because I'm

Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change

2022-09-07 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 9/7/22 19:48, Russ Allbery wrote: -- This ballot option supersedes the Debian Social Contract (a foundation document) under point 4.1.5 of the constitution and thus requires a 3:1 majority. The Debian Social Contra

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-09-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Jonas, On 8/31/22 18:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: The only way I could see to solve that conflict (other than interpreting the official installer as not part of Debian) was to keep the free-only installer around for purity reason even though generally we would promote another unofficial insta

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Marco, - users need to be aware of non-free licenses I believe that "need" here is a strong word. Some users will /like/ to know which non-free firmwares they need to use (I do!), but I cannot think of any reasonable scenario in which somebody /needs/ to know that. As I've mentioned earl

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Wouter, On 8/27/22 12:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The third point is something we can and should address in the medium term: so far, license checks for non-free components have been mostly "can Debian redistribute this" and "can users install this". Thus, your concern can easily be handled

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 8/23/22 22:22, Bart Martens wrote: Debian would recommend the one with non-free-firmware, for the purposes of enabling users to install on current hardware, but both would be available. Do we need to recommend one above the other? I'd rather use some short explanation per installer to

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Ansgar, On 8/19/22 17:09, Ansgar wrote: I don't see a difference between having non-free files in the archive and non-free files on the installation images. If having individual non-free files was not acceptable then we would have to define the archive not part of Debian as well. Yes, and

Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware

2022-08-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 8/18/22 21:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and live images). The included firmware binaries will *normally* be enabled by default where the system deter

Re: Towards more GRs

2021-11-10 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11/8/21 5:30 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: * A proposal to update our voting process (which looks like it will have a couple of options on the ballot) And that is a good thing. The core strength of our voting system is that there are no spoiler options, and if I look back, the most contro

Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result

2021-04-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Bdale, On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:35:21AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > I admit to having really mixed feelings about whether Debian should > *ever* make broad public statements about anything. So, no problem in > my mind with making it harder for the project to do so. One of the purposes of

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: What does FD Mean

2021-04-07 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Felix, On 05.04.21 15:35, Felix Lechner wrote: When a center option is likely to fail our majority requirement [1] should I rank preferable extreme choices above FD even if I am strictly moderately inclined? You are making two bold assumptions here: that the options are on a single one-di

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 30.03.21 09:56, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Nobody is perfect. Everybody said a foolish thing at least once in a lifetime. If we cancel those who love what they do, those who are good with what they do, those who are passionate and caring for what they do for something they have said somewhere

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 26.03.21 08:32, Christian Kastner wrote: > All I'm saying is that when people speak out about the wish to be > apolitical, the term 'apolitical' should not be taken in the widest > possible sense, which covers any action or inaction, and then dismissed > for being impossible. > Rather, in

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 25.03.21 23:32, Christian Kastner wrote: >> the "technical" decisions we make based on that also have political >> consequences. > That's taking meaning of the word 'political' in the widest possible > sense, and in that sense, literally any action (or inaction) carried out > by an indivi

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

2021-03-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Roberto, On 25.03.21 18:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I understand that it is not always possible to be completely apolitical, > even for Debian as an organization. Pretty much everything Debian does is political. Free software enables users' technical autonomy, and this completely shifts

Re: How can we make Debian packaging more standardised?

2021-03-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 09:08:14PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > The (1) adoption of debhelper by my most packages and (2) the move to > Salsa have been an absolute blessing. They have made contributing to > other packages so much easier. We have multiple standards at different abstracti

Re: Question to all: Outreach

2020-03-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:01:28PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Honestly, I don't think it's a problem we can solve right now, but at > > the very least, we should do whatever it takes to not be part of the > > problem, and we should take every small step we can take to be the

Re: Reframing (was Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations)

2019-12-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 08:32:28AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > At minimum, "X is the default" means "you will get X if you don't take > any action to avoid doing so". All definitions I can think of seem to > share that baseline. > At something like maximum, "X is the default" could be read

Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, we need to Understand Apt Dependencies

2019-12-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 10:24:40PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > One of the options I had in my original proposal was that we could drop the > > requirement for transitions through apt, and instead provide transition > > scripts that use dpkg's --force options to go through an invalid

Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, we need to Understand Apt Dependencies

2019-12-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 04:43:39PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > For one of the problems (apt making unexpected decisions) that is > pretty close to what is the case. We do find such issues again and > again, including too late, i.e. only after a stable release, also for > other packages that aren't

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 02.12.19 00:20, Simon McVittie wrote: >> In that particular case, the user session must be available to allow >> activation of gsettingsd via dbus > There is no such thing as gsettingsd. Presumably you mean dconf-service > (which is conceptually one of many backends, although in practice

Re: My analysis of the proposals

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 02.12.19 00:07, Uoti Urpala wrote: > In short: there is little to no worthwhile work being done on any > alternatives to systemd. What is happening is some people trying to > keep sysvinit working to about the level it did in 2014, while doing > very little fundamental development to the s

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 01.12.19 23:24, Simon McVittie wrote: > dbus-user-session is not, and probably will not be, usable on non-systemd > systems. If per-user service managers other than `systemd --user` exist > and can be configured to provide equivalent semantics, I'd be happy > to review the necessary integr

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 01.12.19 20:13, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Right, but the dependency chain is there to make sure the package is >> usable on systemd systems, i.e. we'd have to accept a regression for the >> systemd case in order to facilitate the non-systemd case, which is what >> we don't want, or live with

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Russ, On 01.12.19 18:16, Russ Allbery wrote: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/08/msg00278.html > This is a point that Ian's proposal specifically addresses by accepting > the possibility that packages will be installable but not usable on > non-systemd systems in order to avoid t

Re: Proposal: Focus on systemd

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 01.12.19 10:06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > So there's a lot about proposal B that I like, but at the end of the > day the proposal doesn't sound that different to the status quo. > While it says systemd, there's no 100% commitment (there's no clear > preference over Debian kludges for examp

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
On 01.12.19 02:54, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Russ> Could you provide some more information about what your >> Russ> concern is here? libsystemd-dev depends only on libsystemd0, >> Russ> which has a pretty tiny list of dependencies and shouldn't >> Russ> require that systemd be runnin

Re: Proposal: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple implementations

2019-11-30 Thread Simon Richter
On 30.11.19 18:46, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm thus proposing the following: > > X< > Title: Reaffirm our commitment to support portability and multiple > implementations > > The Debian project reaffirms its commitment to be the glue that binds > and integrates different software that pr

Re: Proposal: Focus on systemd

2019-11-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 10:16:10PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'd like submit the following proposal: I guess my second is not really needed anymore for this, but it's good to have it on the ballot. > Proposal: Focus on systemd to promote standardization and cross-distribution > coop

Re: Review of proposals

2019-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 09:07:58AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sam, I think you misunderstood Simon's concern. He's not looking for > guidance for packages that don't work properly with sysvinit. He's > looking for guidance for packages that don't work properly with *systemd* > (the invers

Re: Please wait a bit longer before calling for a vote

2019-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Sam, On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 08:46:31AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Martin [Pitt] has publically stated he's one of the people I reached out > to in developing my proposals. > As I understand, he's been active in maintaining systemd both in Ubuntu and > Debain. Indeed, most of my interaction

Re: Please wait a bit longer before calling for a vote

2019-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 01:22:37PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I do not support delaying the CFV for an option that has not gained > > sponsors. > just sigh. > Michael, I'm very very likely to sponsor anything you have written so > far. Please publish something so it's on the table and

Re: Review of proposals

2019-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 11:44:55AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > For example, it raises a (probably valid) concern about > > "non-init-related [declarative] systemd facilities", but: > > 1/ it mixes it with an argument that declarative facilities are better. > > Well, maybe I can agree with

Re: Proposed amendment to Proposal D

2019-11-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 01:09:10PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: [change removing regret about having another GR] > Unless anyone objects by 1400 UTC on Wednesday, I intend to accept > this amendment, assuming that this is procedurally kosher. I'm also in favour of that. My understanding of pro

Re: Proposal: Init Diversity

2019-11-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Dmitry Bogatov proposed the following amendment: > Being able to run Debian systems with init systems other than systemd > continues to be of value to the project. Every package MUST work with > pid1 != systemd, unless it was designed by upstream to work exclusively > with systemd and no supp

Re: Should I withdraw choice hartmans1?

2019-11-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Sam, On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:44:02AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'd like to ask especially those people whether choice hartmans1 should > be removed from the ballot. Within limits, I think more options is > better, so my general preference would be to keep the option. However > especiall

Re: Re-Proposing: General Resolution on Init Systems and systemd

2019-11-17 Thread Simon Richter
Ian Jackson writes: > I hereby formally propose the following amendent (for my reference, > 42471fd). Replace the entire text, with the text below. > > -8<- > > Title: Support non-systemd systems, without blocking progress > > PRINCIPLES > > 1. We wish to continue to support multiple init sys

Re: Proposal: General Resolution on Init Systems and systemd Facilities

2019-11-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:03:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > My personal preference is for the project to either decide that we're > going to use systemd facilities by default and sysvinit is going to break, > or to decide that we're going to require standardized interfaces with the > opti

Re: Draft text on Init Systems GR

2019-11-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > I think this is very ambiguous and my immediate interpretation is > probably not what the original proposer means. The two extreme > interpretations I see for "designed to work exclusively with systemd" are: > - my guess fo

Re: Time Line

2019-11-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Sam, On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 06:58:33AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > I saw someone on IRC just yesterday saying they had recently spent 16 > hours on init system GR stuff. That was me. > If other develpers, particularly developers who are not primary > contributors to the discussion are alrea

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [draft] Draft text on Init Systems GR

2019-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:19:24AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Yes, that would be my desired outcome: an affirmation that Debian wants to > > be "universal". This has been our greatest strength for years. > Its a strength that wasted an enormous amount of ressources. See > kfreebsd (whi

Re: [draft] Draft text on Init Systems GR

2019-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Mike, On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 09:48:03PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > root@minobo:~# apt-rdepends -r systemd | wc -l > 6598 It's not as bad as you think: the important package is systemd-sysv. In buster: $ apt-cache rdepends systemd-sysv In bullseye: systemd-sysv Reverse Depends: system

Re: [draft] Draft text on Init Systems GR

2019-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Holger, On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 06:09:35PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > [Rationale: moving from systemd to sysvinit is currently an involved manual > > process, so unavailable to anyone not already skilled in Unix > > administration, creating an artificial barrier.] > please clarify what y

Re: [draft] Draft text on Init Systems GR

2019-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 10:01:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > (Option 1) > > The Debian Project aims at providing the greatest configuration flexibility > > while maintaining a sensible default installation for end users. To that > > end, we document functional dependencies in a machine-

Re: [draft] Draft text on Init Systems GR

2019-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, the main problem I see with this GR is that it is in essence a rehash of the GR[1] we had in 2014, with pretty much the same options minus the one that won, "A GR is not required." > Choice 1: Affirm Init Diversity The way this is worded is even stronger than in the 2014 GR, which made allow

Re: Bikeshedding

2019-04-02 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 02.04.19 05:59, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Some teams might dislike it, but I guess those people will also dislike > the idea of giving all DDs commit access on all packages VCS. Y'all are still solving social problems with technical solutions here, and it's a bad technical solutio

Withdrawing from DPL election

2019-03-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 17.03.19 00:51, Simon Richter wrote: > I'd also like nominate myself for the 2019 DPL election. As you may have noticed, life happened to me shortly after sending that mail. I'm definitely not in a position to make a serious bid anymore, so I'd like to withdraw. I s

Nomination for sjr

2019-03-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I'd also like nominate myself for the 2019 DPL election. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 17.10.2014 22:13, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I note that it was *not* possible to switch init systems in Wheezy in a > supported way (in particular sysvinit is essential and various things > get very unhappy if it gets uninstalled), but you seem to treat Jessie > as more problematic even th

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 17.10.2014 16:54, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> If the fix is not easy then we have three options: the release team >> mark it `jessie-ignore', the GNOME maintainers fix it, or GNOME is >> removed from jessie. > The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants > to

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 17.10.2014 11:52, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> for 30 years so why are some people pushing _so hard_ to replace it NOW and >> by something >> as controversal as the systemd stuff. > A vocal minority and a lot of trolls do not make something > controversial. No, the majority disregarding the n

Re: [RFC] Alternative proposal: reaffirm upstream and maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > Upstream Developers considering a specific Free Software (including, > but not limited to, a particular init system executed as PID 1) > fundamental to deliver the best Software releases, are fully entitled > to require, link, or depend on that Software, or portions of it. Note that

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 16.10.2014 17:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call > for seconds. [...] > ** Begin Proposal ** > > 0. Rationale > > Debian has decided (via the technical committee) to change its > default init system for the next release. The

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:52:02PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > In case these changes are regarded as more than editorial (which is your > > call, but I feel they are), the new proposal requires new seconds > I'm not sure why you think the proposal requires seconds if it > replaces an older

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:48:02PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I like that a lot more than the other wording, thus seconded. > Please don't go and make this more confusing for me. As far as I > can tell this wasn't meant to be amendment yet. He will probably > accept this or something si

Re: Naming of non-uploading DDs (Was: GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members)

2010-09-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:00:32PM +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The Debian project aims at producing the best free operating system. > To that end the project benefits from various types of contributions, > including but not limited to: package maintenance, translations, > infrastructur

Re: gr_lenny vs gr_socialcontract

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:36:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:50:40AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > To paraphrase: Those who give up essential freedoms for > > temporary convenience and popularity deserve neither. > This is something we need to agree

Re: Sensible combinations, was: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, MJ Ray wrote: Yes, that's my understanding. The "all the sensible combinations" shortcut was deleted from Voting procedure on June 21st, 2003. Would it make sense to reintroduce that? Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, MJ Ray wrote: > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. > > The change to paragraph four is replaced by: > 4. For [-three weeks-] {+one week+} after that no more candidates >may be nominated; candidates should use this time for >

Re: Constitutional amendment: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, MJ Ray wrote: > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL > Point 2 remains as before; that is, it will still read: > 2. The election begins nine weeks before the leadership post >becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately. > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL Seconded. Simon

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > (There is a special exception for the license texts and similar legal > documents associated with works in Debian; modifications and derived > works of these legal texts do not need to be allowed. This is a > compromise: the Debian group encourages authors of

Re: Question to all candiates: DebConf

2007-03-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Holger Levsen wrote: > DebConf, the annual Debian Developers Conference, is currently not officially > affiliated with Debian (or SPI) and its not listed on > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization > Do you think DebConf should have an official endorsement with Debian and how > do yo

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Ana Guerrero wrote: Why do you think you will be a good DPL? I see the role of the DPL mostly as a mediator; for that to work it is important to listen and to be able to put one's own opinion aside; both of which I think I can do. What you can for Debian as DPL that you can not do

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, What do you think of the dunc-tank initiative ? What do you think are the result of the "experiment" ? I think we should have been able to see the outcome before trying it. The idea itself is not a bad one, however during the entire course of the experiment it was never questioned by

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
I wrote: There is a lot of gray area between those extremes, and we have to decide on a case-by-case basis. I can see Debian spending more money than it used to (e.g. to get some of the developer machines back up), but I want to avoid both setting precedent and starting an internal competitio

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: What is the role of the DPL? Is he a strong leader, who uses his position to Get Things Done His Way, a public figurehead, who just Speaks For The Project, a mediator, who tries to solve internal squabbles, or something else? The current role seems to be that the D

DPL 2007 (Resend)

2007-02-23 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, it appears as if my first mail was reflowed at some point, which made the signature go bad. Thus, I reconfirm nominating myself as a candidate for the Debian Project Leader 2007. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

DPL 2007

2007-02-23 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I hereby nominate myself as a candidate for the post of the Debian Project Leader in 2007. Simon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3zYRGKDMjVcGpLQRAsG9AJ9k3JWQ73U3n8ZRQSNMecZVgQh8vQCeLNMF kv85KdVwX8M+2

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Raul Miller schrieb: >>This is silly. It seems like the constitution effectively says "if the >>resolution passes it required a simple majority; if it failed, it needed 3:1". > The only silliness is the verb tenses. Once some concept passes > supermajority it doesn't need to pass again, be

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Xavier Roche wrote: I fully agree. The "Holier than Stallman" stuff is really getting ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness. And after that, the font madeness maybe ? (after all, fonts ARE also software, and they shall be distributed with their original sou

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Jérôme Marant wrote: What is this supposed to mean? If no comments have been made by the author for eight weeks, messages will be automatically declassified? It looks like a kind of opt out to me. True. It may be an idea to have another proposed amendment reversing the logic, and see

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