Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-19 09:17:31 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: Le 16/05/2013 08:43, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : On 2013-05-15 20:27:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: No. Your server comes unconfigured, you do configure it while the other is still working, and then you stop the service on

Re: blhc and hardening flags (was: Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-22 Thread Nick Andrik
That reminds me. Is there a way to get blhc to tell me *which* line in a build log makes it think that compiler flags are hidden? I agree that would be really useful https://buildd.debian.org/~brlink/packages/r/remctl.html is reporting that the compiler flags are hidden. So far as I know,

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 16/05/2013 08:43, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : On 2013-05-15 20:27:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: No. Your server comes unconfigured, you do configure it while the other is still working, and then you stop the service on the first, finish syncing the mailboxes, switch the MX record,

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 mai 13, 14:55:46, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:29:42PM -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : Andrei POPESCU wrote: Andreas Beckmann wrote: now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. How about setting default umask for

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 16-05-13 21:27, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Wouter Verhelst's message of 2013-05-14 03:22:14 -0700: On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? No. The goal of Debian is not to be simple. While we should

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-18 14:55:46 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/umask It says: An umask of 022 gives write permission to the other group members. Is it true? -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 mai 13, 10:33:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-05-18 14:55:46 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/umask It says: An umask of 022 gives write permission to the other group members. Is it true? Probably a typo, fixed. Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:37:59 +0100, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-13 19:26 +0200]: Yes, but that's not the problem. Take the premise that the target directory structure is as described above, so most library development packages ship as many headers as possible

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:42:30 +0200, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: On Freitag, 17. Mai 2013, Marc Haber wrote: We're going to have a TC decision or a GR about this anyway. why do you think so? Because I think that a decision of this magnitude should not be taken by a single

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 13 May 2013 02:31:02 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: Maybe kfreebsd will do, but as I explained at FOSDEM I plan to make udev depend on either upstart or systemd. I would rather not be the one who will choose which one of them, so I hope that we will get to a consensus about

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marc, On Freitag, 17. Mai 2013, Marc Haber wrote: We're going to have a TC decision or a GR about this anyway. why do you think so? cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-07 14:23:47 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Shells suitable for /bin/sh are currently bash, dash, mksh. I forgot about that (partly because of workarounds), but due to the SIGINT problem, I think that *currently*, among these 3 shells, bash is the most suitable one, and mksh is a bit

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: Andreas Beckmann wrote: now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. How about setting default umask for users (uid = 1000) to 002? +1. It would be a useful default. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:29:42PM -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : Andrei POPESCU wrote: Andreas Beckmann wrote: now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. How about setting default umask for users (uid = 1000) to 002? +1. It would be a useful

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 05:06:26PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 12.05.2013 16:18, schrieb Daniel Schepler: Maybe we could have a release goal of dropping as many lib32* and lib64* packages as possible in favor of multi-arch. (And also as many package dependencies on libc6-[i386|amd64]

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:17:06PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-05-07 23:53:07 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Now please, do the same reasoning with some other services, like Apache, pure-ftpd, or bind, and explain to me why you would like to have these installed, but not working.

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 14:49:57, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. How about setting default umask for users (uid = 1000) to 002? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:43:02PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote... 2) No more packages that bypass the package management system and secure apt: a) There are still several (typically non-free) packages which download stuff from the web, install or at

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:29:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-05-11 11:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: While that might be of some interest the real goal of the change was to be able to have more than *2* packages provide /bin/sh. Currently, due to the totaly screwed up

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 02:40:39AM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Steve Langasek [2013-05-11 09:33 -0700]: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: While that might be of some interest the real goal of the change was to be able to have more than *2* packages

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:52:29PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Being able to choose between two entirely different desktop environments, with different user experiences, is a good thing. Being able to choose between two /bin/sh

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 02:40:39AM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Steve Langasek [2013-05-11 09:33 -0700]: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: While that might be of some interest the real goal of the change was to be able to have more than *2* packages

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Thorsten On 11-05-13 20:26, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org writes: This is not a sensible goal. Choice of /bin/sh should *not* be the goal, the goal should be to get a good, fast, minimal, policy-compliant /bin/sh for *everyone*. Sure. We just disagree

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 15-05-13 17:39, Thorsten Glaser wrote: As for your requests of data: I do not provide them. As I said above, I’m pushing for freedom of choice, not switching the default; of course I’d be happy with the latter, even more so actually, but it must be a thing not driven by me; I see. In that

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 13-05-13 06:16, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Philip Hands wrote: I don't know about you, but I find it quite reassuring to be able to confirm that the first half of an install is going pretty well when I get to see the useless dummy page from Apache. I'd imagine

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Peter Makholm
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: Now please, do the same reasoning with some other services, like Apache, pure-ftpd, or bind, and explain to me why you would like to have these installed, but not working. As a developer I have often found use for having Apache installed, just so I can

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:39:54PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: As for your requests of data: I do not provide them. As I said above, I???m pushing for freedom of choice, not switching the default; of course I???d be happy with the latter, even more so actually, but it must be a thing not

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-15 20:27:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: No. Your server comes unconfigured, you do configure it while the other is still working, and then you stop the service on the first, finish syncing the mailboxes, switch the MX record, and then you can go to rest. This is not

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Wouter Verhelst's message of 2013-05-14 03:22:14 -0700: On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? No. The goal of Debian is not to be simple. While we should document things as much as possible so

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Christoph Biedl debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de schrieb: Another thing: Hardening already has been a release goal but there still are packages around without. Agreed. I made a concentrated effort for Wheezy by submitting lots of patches for crucial packages and the general adoption among

blhc and hardening flags (was: Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Moritz Mühlenhoff j...@inutil.org writes: Agreed. I made a concentrated effort for Wheezy by submitting lots of patches for crucial packages and the general adoption among maintainers is increasing. Also, Simon Ruderich's blhc tool has been very useful and hardening checks are now also part

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-16 Thread Joshuah Hurst
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org writes: now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and * Resolve that /bin/sh issue (see

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] brian m. carlson On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:12:10AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] brian m. carlson On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:29:40AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 05/15/2013 02:16 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 08:59:57AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Helmut Grohne helmut at subdivi.de writes: What are the benefits of using shells other than dash for /bin/sh? (as Why does dash get special treatment, anyway? It was ???suddenly??? in Debian after having been used in Ubuntu,

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 14 mai 2013 à 23:26 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : For better or for worse, sysvinit provides a lot of modularity. systemd provides none of that modularity Maybe you should read a bit about systemd before saying such nonsense. The real-world systemd (not the imaginary software you

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 06:26:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Oh, sorry, I forgot, you work for Canonical (which totally explains some of your writings in the other eMail too, which I’m not going to comment on). Of course, for *buntu people it’s not about choice. I think you are totally out

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-15 01:00:37 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/13/2013 07:08 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-05-07 23:54:36 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web server, displaying a

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery rra at debian.org writes: The cvs package went down the debconf path, and it never failed to annoy me. When I installed the cvs package to get the cvs command-line client to access remote CVS repositories, it asked me where I wanted to create a Or even automatically created one,

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-07 14:23:47 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Shells suitable for /bin/sh are currently bash, dash, mksh. [...] I have no idea whether yash or zsh can be made suitable, but I think both could, if the maintainers and possibly upstream are interested. Though zsh has an option to emulate

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonathan Dowland jmtd at debian.org writes: I think you are totally out of order, here. You could equally be criticised of having your judgement clouded by your involvement with MirOS. That would I admit being biased for that very reason. And that’s also the reason I try to push for freedom of

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/14/2013 06:07 PM, Philip Hands wrote: He missed the fact that you were contrasting one non-crashing init, that is capable of restarting dead services, with another non-crashing init setup that is not able to do so (without help). Oh, indeed I missed that point! Thanks Phil. Thomas --

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/15/2013 05:52 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: I have still hard time to consider that you absolutely did not mention something related to a bootloader. I believe Phil Hands explained better than I would what I tried to explain. On 05/15/2013 05:52 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: Like in the previous

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.05.2013 02:12, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as a whole than any other implementation. I have yet

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-15 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 15/05/2013 16:40, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : Here this is more than a mail server being down. It is a domain without a MX; doesn't this mean a direct reject? Actually removing the MX pointer wouldn't be OK, as the client may look at the A record instead, which can't be removed without

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-15 Thread Christoph Biedl
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote... 2) No more packages that bypass the package management system and secure apt: a) There are still several (typically non-free) packages which download stuff from the web, install or at least un-tar it somwhere without checking any integrity information that

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-15 Thread Christoph Biedl
Another thing: Hardening already has been a release goal but there still are packages around without. After having seen the proctetion catching a programming bug I think more importance should be put on that, either by considering all packages rc-buggy that should be built with hardening wrappers

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 05:33:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Though zsh has an option to emulate sh, it may still not be completely compatible. Upstream fixes incompatibilities when it is easy. But some incompatibilities may remain. If sh needs special multibyte (UTF-8) support for some

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/13/2013 06:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 12 mai 2013 à 19:40 +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : With all due respect, this might be utter bullshit, but is at least [citation needed]. I have yet to see a failing pid 1 (be that sysv, upstart or systemd). Acquiring data on failure

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 14 mai 2013 à 15:28 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 05/13/2013 06:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Having a rock-stable PID 1 is nice and all, but it doesn’t help you if something important crashes. On a production server, if apache crashes and fails to reload properly because

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Helmut Grohne helmut at subdivi.de writes: What are the benefits of using shells other than dash for /bin/sh? (as Why does dash get special treatment, anyway? It was “suddenly“ in Debian after having been used in Ubuntu, but… there never was an evaluation of shells. I still believe the

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/14/2013 04:51 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Yes of course, because a different init system will magically make your other disk bootable. This is absolutely *NOT* what I said. Nothing in my message compares this or that init system. I just replied that when you have apache, it's easier to

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Philip Hands
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le mardi 14 mai 2013 à 15:28 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 05/13/2013 06:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Having a rock-stable PID 1 is nice and all, but it doesn’t help you if something important crashes. On a production server, if apache

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? No. The goal of Debian is not to be simple. While we should document things as much as possible so that the interested can learn how things work, in no case should we ever avoid

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2013-05-14 12:22:14) On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? No. The goal of Debian is not to be simple. While we should document things as much as possible so that the interested can

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org wrote: I suggest that you file a bug against php5 with suggested changes and we can discuss the pros and cons of each for jessie. And I must add that I consider very rude to push your (sometimes extreme, sometimes very usefull)

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: ... forcing the rest of the world to conform to our worldview. One desktop environment, and an awful one at that, dictating the init system we use is a complete farce. Debian is a lot bigger than GNOME, and if we have to, I'd

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 08:59 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Helmut Grohne helmut at subdivi.de writes: What are the benefits of using shells other than dash for /bin/sh? (as Why does dash get special treatment, anyway? It was “suddenly“ in Debian after having been used in Ubuntu, but… there

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:15PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:39:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: The big issue which crops up then isn't so much the directory structure's impact

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wise wrote: Probably the rsync package should just ask you via debconf if you want to serve any directories and what their names and paths should be. Since most folks who have rsync installed don't need rsyncd, the default would be to not setup anything. No, it should not. 60 packages

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Wookey
+++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-13 19:26 +0200]: Yes, but that's not the problem. Take the premise that the target directory structure is as described above, so most library development packages ship as many headers as possible in /usr/include. For now we'll assume all mingw-w64-...-dev headers are

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/13/2013 07:08 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-05-07 23:54:36 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web server, displaying a default web page is harmless. But what about a mail server?

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Philip Hands wrote: Vincent Lefevre writes: I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). I don't know about you, but I find it quite reassuring to be able to confirm that the first half of an install is going pretty

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Paul Wise wrote: Probably the rsync package should just ask you via debconf if you want to serve any directories and what their names and paths should be. Since most folks who have rsync installed don't need rsyncd, the default would be to not setup

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 08:59:57AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Helmut Grohne helmut at subdivi.de writes: What are the benefits of using shells other than dash for /bin/sh? (as Why does dash get special treatment, anyway? Because /bin/sh is special under Debian policy, as an essential

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 mai 2013 11:54 CEST, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org : Yes of course, because a different init system will magically make your other disk bootable. This is absolutely *NOT* what I said. Nothing in my message compares this or that init system. I just replied that when you have apache,

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as a whole than any other implementation. I have yet to see a use case where it is not better. It is not better if you don't want proprietary

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as a whole than any other implementation. I have yet to see a use case where it is not better.

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as a whole than any other implementation. I have yet to see a use case where it is not better.

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/15/2013 02:16 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as a whole than any other implementation. I have

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
And, when it comes to processing, binary data is actually *easier* to process. Everyone who has ever written a text parser themselves will agree. I guess everyone who has used grep, tr, sed and so on will disagree? -- Salvo Tomaselli http://web.student.chalmers.se/~saltom/ -- To

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:29:40AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 05/15/2013 02:16 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it.

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:12:10AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.05.2013 01:26, schrieb brian m. carlson: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:08:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is utter bullshit and you should already know it. Systemd is much more reliable as a whole than any other

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 mai 2013 22:08 CEST, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org : I can't agree with having no choice with regard to init. We aren't all using GNOME, and Debian is used in an extremely diverse set of fields for a multitude of different purposes. No one init is appropriate for all of these

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 mai 13, 20:31:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The difference between a shell and an init system is that the former is directly exposed to the user while the latter will only be visible to developers and admins most of the time. It makes sense to be able to customize your user

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:31:02AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 13, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: actually, while it has been brought up as a theoretical/wrong argument, that we cannot switch our linux installation ship with $this init system, while the kfreebsd

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Philip Hands wrote: I don't know about you, but I find it quite reassuring to be able to confirm that the first half of an install is going pretty well when I get to see the useless dummy page from Apache. I'd imagine

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Philip Hands wrote: It looks to me as though your apache and rsyncd suggestions are straying into the forbidden territory of using debconf as a registry. I didn't advocate storing such info in debconf. PS: I'm subscribed. -- bye, pabs

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it writes: On May 13, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: actually, while it has been brought up as a theoretical/wrong argument, that we cannot switch our linux installation ship with $this init system, while the kfreebsd port uses $that init system, I'd

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). So useful, since you can then put files into the docroot and serve those files. But the admin

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an initial configuration. Since it is not working by default, and loses mail, the daemon shouldn't be enabled by default. IIRC,

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-07 23:54:36 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web server, displaying a default web page is harmless. But what about a mail server? Any default config would probably lead to

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). So useful, since you can then put files into the

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an initial configuration. Since it is not working by default, and loses

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an initial configuration. Since it is not

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 12:02:31 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: My only use of Apache on some machine is because of sensord. But it may happen that in a few months, I would no longer need sensord and may remove the package. In this case, it would make sense to

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: So you configured it through debconf, in a non-default way, and it refused mails according to how you configured it. AFAIK, debconf is the *only* choice.

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: So you configured it through debconf, in a non-default way, and it refused mails according to how you configured it. AFAIK,

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/13/2013 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: No, it does not, since the default configuration («Local only») sets This is not the default configuration, just the default choice (it is not written Default

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: On 2013-05-13 12:02:31 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: My only use of Apache on some machine is because of sensord. But it may happen that in a few months, I would no longer need sensord and may remove the

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
On 2013-05-12 21:31, m...@linux.it wrote: Maybe kfreebsd will do, but as I explained at FOSDEM I plan to make udev depend on either upstart or systemd. do you have a link to a presentation, blog post, or whatever explaining the rationale behind this? i didn't found anything on FOSDEM

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Yes, but similarly, there's no way to do this automatically. apt-get autoremove is automatic, or if you want that earlier you could remove sensord using aptitude which will automatically remove unused dependencies. There's also a problem

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 08:48:33 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/13/2013 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: No, it does not, since the default configuration («Local only») sets This is not the default configuration, just

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 14:37:28 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: There's also a problem that the man pages are in the package: $ dpkg -L apache2.2-common | grep /man/ /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/apache2.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/a2ensite.8.gz

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 16:26:58 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: One could imagine the same thing but with testing directories... Something like in the /etc/default/ file: test -f some_dir || ENABLED=0 But this method needs an ENABLED variable! Actually, that would be more like ENABLED=0 test -f

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:05:59AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Having a rock-stable PID 1 is nice and all, but it doesn???t help you if something important crashes. On a production server, if apache crashes and fails to reload properly because the scripts don???t get the ordering right, it

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 21:42:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Yes, but similarly, there's no way to do this automatically. apt-get autoremove is automatic, or if you want that earlier you could remove sensord using aptitude which will automatically

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 13 mai 2013 15:37:28, Philip Hands a écrit : If you must see the man page from a particular package: dget apache2.2-common mkdir -p ./tmp/apache2.2-common dpkg -X apache2.2-common_2.2.22-13_amd64.deb ./tmp/apache2.2-common JTYI, you could also use debman -p apache2.2-common

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:39:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: The big issue which crops up then isn't so much the directory structure's impact on the build process, but rather its impact on the packaging

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 13, gustavo panizzo gfa g...@zumbi.com.ar wrote: On 2013-05-12 21:31, m...@linux.it wrote: Maybe kfreebsd will do, but as I explained at FOSDEM I plan to make udev depend on either upstart or systemd. do you have a link to a presentation, blog post, or whatever explaining the

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