Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:31:59PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:19:04PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: That said, we provide GNOME Classic in wheezy for good reasons. Some of Florian’s concerns are clearly among them. I have tried that and the annoyances with the

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/6 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org: On 06/06/2013 03:15 AM, Bjoern Meier wrote: It is that hard, to build a dialog and ask for a desktop? I don't think it would be that hard, though nobody did it. You know that Debian is driven by volunteers only, right? So if you really want

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 iun 13, 13:58:24, Thomas Goirand wrote: Feel free to contribute it. I would welcome it. I too, feel like its a shame that there's no dialog to choose which desktop you want (even if we have specialized CDs, I prefer the netinst ones, and there, such a dialog would be a very good

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/6 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com: On Jo, 06 iun 13, 13:58:24, Thomas Goirand wrote: Feel free to contribute it. I would welcome it. I too, feel like its a shame that there's no dialog to choose which desktop you want (even if we have specialized CDs, I prefer the netinst

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:19:04PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: That said, we provide GNOME Classic in wheezy for good reasons. Some of Florian’s concerns are clearly among them. I have tried that and the annoyances with the systray, multihead and nautilus manages backdrop are the same. I am

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 06/06/2013 15:31, Florian Lohoff wrote: On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:19:04PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: That said, we provide GNOME Classic in wheezy for good reasons. Some of Florian’s concerns are clearly among them. I have tried that and the annoyances with the systray, multihead and

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/6/6 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de: On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:19:04PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: That said, we provide GNOME Classic in wheezy for good reasons. Some of Florian’s concerns are clearly among them. I have tried that and the annoyances with the systray, multihead and

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 05:20:21PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: But why on earth did very simple thing like multihead management break? Very simple thing ‽ Clearly, you have no idea. It was functional and working for me in Squeeze it doesnt now. Wheezy is supposed to use

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/06/2013 02:25 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: the problem - IMHO - is linux (as the kernel itself and tool-distributions) is getting fat and kills his own advantages. Time to try Hurd or kFreeBSD? :) (note: I'd like to have more time to invest in them myself, and I perfectly understand that not

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/06/2013 03:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You are of course aware of the boot menu: Advanced Options - Alternative Desktop Environment. Yes. But it should be in d-i, when you choose to install a desktop. Not in syslinux, when you are supposed to choose what kind of installer to start. It's

Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:10:11PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Florian, well, this could be related to Wheezy, or to you, or to the people you've been talking with, or something else, or a combination... I've switched 3 users from Squeeze to Wheezy in the last 2 weeks, and also

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/05/2013 02:24 PM, Florian Lohoff wrote: well, this could be related to Wheezy, or to you, or to the people you've been talking with, or something else, or a combination... I've switched 3 users from Squeeze to Wheezy in the last 2 weeks, and also to Gnome 3 btw, and they all *love* it.

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi 2013/6/5 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de For me wheezy is the worst of all Debian release i have been using since bo. /signed Just one example to add to flo's the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, was not a clean one. I've had to install a package (some lib-gd-annoying.deb), that wasn't

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/05/2013 02:39 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: 2013/6/5 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de mailto:f...@zz.de For me wheezy is the worst of all Debian release i have been using since bo. /signed Just one example to add to flo's Really? I think it's one of the best releases ever. Multi-Arch

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/5 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de On 06/05/2013 02:39 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: 2013/6/5 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de mailto:f...@zz.de For me wheezy is the worst of all Debian release i have been using since bo. /signed Just one example to add

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 05 juin 2013 à 15:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : For example, Debian kept gdm 2.20 for a very long time to continue to provide XDMCP support. No. We kept it because there was no clean upgrade path to version 2.30 (which still supports the XDMCP horror). Almost

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, June 5, 2013 15:34, Bjoern Meier wrote: the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, was not a clean one. I've had to install a package (some lib-gd-annoying.deb), that wasn't installed before and wasn't able to install because of some unresolved debs. Honestly, what do you expect. It's

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org wrote: Of course, you're right. If i had a side-show setting, I've nothing to say. But I think Apache and PHP should have tested which a widely range of users. Debian as a volunteer project relies on input of users to test

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/5 Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org: On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org wrote: Of course, you're right. If i had a side-show setting, I've nothing to say. But I think Apache and PHP should have tested which a widely range of users. Debian as a

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/05/2013 03:34 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: So gnome said Debian had to use GNOME3 for default? Interesting. I don't understand. You can easily set the default xsession through update-alternatives. We are installing MATE as well and have set it as the default session. No complaints about the

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/5 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de: On 06/05/2013 03:34 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: So gnome said Debian had to use GNOME3 for default? Interesting. I don't understand. You can easily set the default xsession through update-alternatives. We are installing MATE

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/05/2013 07:24 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: You striped my other comment. What it is now? A decision of upstream or not? I stripped it, because I wasn't considering it a valid argument. No one keeps you from setting your default xsession and you actually should do that when deploying Debian in

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/6/5 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de: On 06/05/2013 07:24 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: You striped my other comment. What it is now? A decision of upstream or not? I stripped it, because I wasn't considering it a valid argument. No one keeps you from setting your

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/05/2013 09:15 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: Ah what? You are confusing something, my skill to do something has nothing to do with that I have to do it. Well, you said you are deploying Debian in a corporate environment so I assume you are doing some heavy custom configuration anyways and thus

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi, On 06/05/2013 09:15 PM, Bjoern Meier wrote: Gnome3 was controverse discussed in many media, so Take it or make your move and change it? It is that hard, to build a dialog and ask for a desktop? You have the choice, but we already made it for you. if you think, it is easy, why there is no

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/06/2013 03:15 AM, Bjoern Meier wrote: It is that hard, to build a dialog and ask for a desktop? I don't think it would be that hard, though nobody did it. You know that Debian is driven by volunteers only, right? So if you really want something to happen, the best way is to do it. We are a