Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:55:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 20/10/14 at 22:26 +0200, Arno T?ll wrote: That's - I think - a good default and affirms Debian's point of view that the respective maintainers can judge best what's a good requirement for their packages. Finally I encourage

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthias Urlichs writes (Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain): Really? To me, For the record, the TC expects does not introduce a ruling. Precisely. It seems to be, rather, a strongly-worded but informal declaration how the TC

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org writes: I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org (2014-10-18): ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: Dear fellow Developers, I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: Dear fellow Developers, I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. All received and valid. Thanks, Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Luca Falavigna wrote: The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided: For the record, the TC expects

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 14.14:58 Joey Hess a écrit : The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided: For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support the multiple available init systems in Debian. That includes merging reasonable contributions,

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Joey Hess: Luca Falavigna wrote: The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided: For the

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org writes: Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 14.14:58 Joey Hess a écrit : The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided: For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support the multiple available init systems in Debian. That

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On 20 October 2014 21:14, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: Luca Falavigna wrote: The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling i.e. whether other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system. The tech committe made a separate ruling on this

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 08:46:19PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 14.14:58 Joey Hess a écrit : The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided: For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support the multiple available

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Kurt, On 20.10.2014 21:33, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So the question is going to be if this options overrides #746715 or not. I didn't look into it yet, so I might be turning 1 or more of the options into overrding the TC and put them under 4.1.4. I do not follow you on this argumentation. The

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:26:08PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: Hi Kurt, On 20.10.2014 21:33, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So the question is going to be if this options overrides #746715 or not. I didn't look into it yet, so I might be turning 1 or more of the options into overrding the TC and put

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Sam Hartman
Arno == Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes: Arno Hi Kurt, Arno On 20.10.2014 21:33, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So the question is going to be if this options overrides #746715 or not. I didn't look into it yet, so I might be turning 1 or more of the options into overrding the TC

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Kurt Roeckx wrote: Either it's a position statement, or we're making position statement (4.1.5), or using the TC's power (4.1.4). In #727708 it says that a position statement will replace this TC resolution. In #746715 there is no such text. So the question is going to be if this

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 20/10/14 at 22:26 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: That's - I think - a good default and affirms Debian's point of view that the respective maintainers can judge best what's a good requirement for their packages. Finally I encourage everyone to focus on the connotation in Luca's amendment. It allows

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 04:03:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Well, at least I've found yet another reason to perfer to not vote on this GR: It's too darn complicated to understand the procedural hacking that's going on. Hear, hear. My dayjob is doing PMO[1][2] style work tracking and modeling

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Joey Hess: Well, at least I've found yet another reason to perfer to not vote on this GR: It's too darn complicated to understand the procedural hacking that's going on. Well, vote them below FD then. Except for the nice two-paragraph we don't need no stinkin' GR amendment that's going

Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Luca Falavigna
Dear fellow Developers, I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 18. Oktober 2014, Luca Falavigna wrote: ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question of

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
* Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org [2014-10-18 12:21:18 +0200]: Dear fellow Developers, I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** [snip] 2. Specific init systems as PID 1 Debian packages may

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/18/2014 at 06:21 AM, Luca Falavigna wrote: Dear fellow Developers, I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 2. Specific init systems as PID 1 Debian packages may require a specific init system

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi, Thank you for your feedback! 2014-10-18 13:50 GMT+02:00 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm: Imagine that the maintainer of package foo decides, as they are entitled to do under this proposal, that 'foo requires upstart for proper operation' (choosing upstart just as an example here), and

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi Lucas, Thank you for your feedback! 2014-10-18 14:13 GMT+02:00 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org: 1) packages may require the default init system if: - their maintainer consider this a prerequisite for its proper operation - no patches or other derived works exist in order to support other

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Luca, On 18/10/14 at 15:53 +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: Hi Lucas, Thank you for your feedback! 2014-10-18 14:13 GMT+02:00 Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org: 1) packages may require the default init system if: - their maintainer consider this a prerequisite for its proper operation -

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Lucas Nussbaum: While I understand your concerns, I think that it is highly unlikely that we will decide to change the default init system to something that would break existing packages without a known reasonable way to fix them. Exactly. We decided to change our (default) init

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Luca, On 18.10.2014 12:21, Luca Falavigna wrote: ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the question of coupling

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** 0. Rationale Debian has decided (via the Technical Committee) to change its default init system for the next release. The Technical Committee decided not to decide about the

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 octobre 2014 12:21 +0200, Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org : Dear fellow Developers, I would like to propose the following amendment proposal, and I hereby call for seconds. ** Begin Alternative Proposal ** [...] Seconded. -- Format a program to help the reader understand it.

Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain

2014-10-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org writes: 2. Specific init systems as PID 1 Debian packages may require a specific init system to be executed as PID 1 if their maintainers consider this a requisite for its proper operation by clearly mark this in package descriptions and/or by