Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Reuben
please stop sending me emails…. > On 04 Dec 2019, at 09:22, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:13:03 PM EST Sam Hartman wrote: >> I note that our voting system does have recourse for people who believe >> that the vote is called to early. >> >> They can vote FD

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Russ Allbery writes: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: >> Quoting Russ Allbery (2019-12-03 19:19:50) I took Russ' advice and slept on this; I had rather expected a response from Sam by now. >>> Does anyone truly believe that another round of wordsmithing or changes >>> to statements of principles

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Ian Jackson wrote: > 1. We exercise the DPL's power to set the minimum discussion >period for the init systems GR to end at 23:59 UTC on >Friday the 6th of December. (Constitution 4.1(3).) Does that even make sense, since the Secretary has stated that he plans to start the vote on the

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/12/04 09:22, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think short circuiting the discussion process casts into question the > legitimacy of the process. > > I think you are wrong here. How can one know where to rank option G when > it's > clearly incomplete. I don't know if I like it or not.

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Gerardo Ballabio writes: > Ian Jackson wrote: >> 1. We exercise the DPL's power to set the minimum discussion >>period for the init systems GR to end at 23:59 UTC on >>Friday the 6th of December. (Constitution 4.1(3).) > > Does that even make sense, since the Secretary has stated that

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Am Mi., 4. Dez. 2019 um 12:11 Uhr schrieb Matthew Vernon : > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > >> Quoting Russ Allbery (2019-12-03 19:19:50) > > I took Russ' advice and slept on this; I had rather expected a response > from Sam by now. > > >>> Does anyone truly believe that

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Gerardo Ballabio writes: > Yes, that's right -- but I guess that if a sensible change is proposed > before the actual ballot is sent out, Sam and Kurt will not obstruct > and will agree to whatever formal step is required to get it in. It would be helpful if Sam and/or Kurt would confirm or

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

2019-12-04 Thread Ansgar
Hi Sam, On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 15:25 -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > > > "Ansgar" == Ansgar writes: > > Ansgar> Adam Borowski writes: > >> * dependencies on "systemd | other" rather than "other | > >> systemd"; this is a no-op on a systemd system (installed by > >> debootstrap

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E"): > Thanks for this. No-one else has said anything. Having thought about > it, I think Guillem's framing would lead me to a conclusion closer to > Dmitry's E rather than my option D - but either is arguable. > > To make it concrete I

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

2019-12-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 06:04:19PM +0100, Simon Richter 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 state > instead

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

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/12/04 19:11, Svante Signell wrote: > I've purposely kept out of this discussion, hoping that you all can > behave in a civil manner. Obviously not. I don't rank you mail > defective, there have bee several other on this list. Anyway, this > whole GR is about systemd or sysvinit, and

Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
gregor herrmann writes ("Re: Reframing"): > I found and find Guillem's text very appealing; and I also can see > that people who are involved in the issue on the technical or the > policy side would like to have concrete answers to the pending > questions and guidance for moving forward. For the

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 19-12-03 11 h 15, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have been proposing that there should be an alternative to Guillem's > proposal. I need a few more days to do this. (Guillem's proposal has > IMO excellent framing but lacks suitable specific guidance. I hope we > can make a version which combines

Re: Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Micha Lenk
Does a ballot for a DPL vote contain the platforms or just the options?

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

Re: Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:13:30PM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote: > Does a ballot for a DPL vote contain the platforms or just the options? Just the options. But looking at old ballots, the last non-DPL election also had the full text of the options. Kurt

Re: Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Micha Lenk
Hi Kurt, On 04.12.19 20:18, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:13:30PM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote: Does a ballot for a DPL vote contain the platforms or just the options? Just the options. But looking at old ballots, the last non-DPL election also had the full text of the options.

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

2019-12-04 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, I've purposely kept out of this discussion, hoping that you all can behave in a civil manner. Obviously not. I don't rank you mail defective, there have bee several other on this list. Anyway, this whole GR is about systemd or sysvinit, and everybody pretends they don't know about

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 12:24:36PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Gerardo Ballabio writes: > > > Yes, that's right -- but I guess that if a sensible change is proposed > > before the actual ballot is sent out, Sam and Kurt will not obstruct > > and will agree to whatever formal step is required

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/12/04 19:14, Ian Jackson wrote: ... > 7. Software is not to be considered to be designed by upstream to work >exclusively with systemd merely because upstream does not provide, >and/or will not accept, an init script. I believe that the combination is better than the original

Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, Do you think it's useful to also have the text of all the options in the ballot? Here is the draft ballot: Voting period starts 2019-12-07 00:00:00 UTC Votes must be received by 2019-12-27 23:59:59 UTC The following ballot is for voting on init systems and systemd This vote

Re: Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Sam Hartman
I don't know if the text should be in the ballot. I did ask someone who has not been in this discussion to review the ballot without the text. They are not a DD. But they found just the choice titles entirely mystifying. But it would be really long with all the text.

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E"): > Thanks for this. No-one else has said anything. Having thought about > it, I think Guillem's framing would lead me to a conclusion closer to > Dmitry's E rather than my option D - but either is arguable. > > To make it concrete I

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

2019-12-04 Thread Ansgar
On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 18:04 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > 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

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:11:49 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > gregor herrmann writes ("Re: Reframing"): > > So yes, for me a combination of options G and D would be (or maybe > > more accurately: would have been ) helpful in finalizing my ranking > > of the options given my ambivalence. > > To make

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Kurt" == Kurt Roeckx writes: Kurt> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 10:43:53PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:11:49 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >> >> > gregor herrmann writes ("Re: Reframing"): > > So yes, for me a >> combination of options G and D would

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Xavier
Le 04/12/2019 à 22:43, gregor herrmann a écrit : > On Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:11:49 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> gregor herrmann writes ("Re: Reframing"): >>> So yes, for me a combination of options G and D would be (or maybe >>> more accurately: would have been ) helpful in finalizing my ranking

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

2019-12-04 Thread Svante Signell
Jonathan, FYI: From a mail From Uoti Urpala: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2019/12/msg00054.html fact: There is in practice no development of new alternative init systems happening, and no clear reason to believe that if it hypothetically did occur, there would be particular problems.

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

2019-12-04 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Svante" == Svante Signell writes: Svante> Jonathan, FYI: From a mail From Uoti Urpala: Svante> https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2019/12/msg00054.html That mail had unfortunate tone and several people replied to the thread indicating that the approach taken was not

Re: Re: Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Svante Signell
How can you issue the ballot without consensus. That is over my head.

Re: Re: Draft ballot

2019-12-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:53:10PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > How can you issue the ballot without consensus. That is over my head. What do you think there is no consensus about that is relevant? I did not see anybody sponsor Ian's GR yet, so it seems to me I have no other option than to

Re: Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, let's being sensible

2019-12-04 Thread Svante Signell
Changed the subject slightly. Sorry Sam, replying to this list with the previous mail does not work (evolution). Nevertheless being Swedish I don't find any offensive tone in my wording, please tell me where I failed! (As you might no know we are very honest in what we do (and write)), no

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 10:43:53PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:11:49 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > gregor herrmann writes ("Re: Reframing"): > > > So yes, for me a combination of options G and D would be (or maybe > > > more accurately: would have been ) helpful in

Re: If we're Going to Have Alternate Init Systems, let's being sensible

2019-12-04 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Svante" == Svante Signell writes: Svante> Nevertheless being Swedish I don't find any offensive tone Svante> in my wording, please tell me where I failed! ( I don't know I'd say failed. Looking back, I definitely think this is a language disconnect and perhaps nothing more.

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ian Jackson (2019-12-04 18:14:38) > Ian Jackson writes ("Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E"): > > Thanks for this. No-one else has said anything. Having thought about > > it, I think Guillem's framing would lead me to a conclusion closer to > > Dmitry's E rather than my option D -

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Guilhem Moulin
On Wed, 04 Dec 2019 at 17:14:38 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Title: Support non-systemd systems, without blocking progress > > PRINCIPLES > > 1. The Debian project reaffirms its commitment to be the glue that binds > and integrates different software that provides similar or equivalent >

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 17:11:49 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Thanks for this. No-one else has said anything. Having thought about > it, I think Guillem's framing would lead me to a conclusion closer to > Dmitry's E rather than my option D - but either is arguable. As I mentioned in my “Reframing”

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 13:21:20 -0500 Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > [...] > So far I've stayed away from writing on the list, since I think it has > been very verbose and I find that tiresome. > > I'm tired of this GR already and in my heart, I wish I could just vote > and be done with it. > >

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 05:14:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Here is what I think Guillem's plus mine looks like. > > NB that I may have reintroduced typos which have been fixed on the > website version. I haven't had time to check that. > > -8<- > > Title: Support non-systemd systems,

Re: Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E

2019-12-04 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 17:14:38 + Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Last minute cominbations G+D and/or G+E"): > [...] > > Here is what I think Guillem's plus mine looks like. > > NB that I may have reintroduced typos which have been fixed on the > website version. I haven't had time

Re: Proposal to overturn init systems premature GR

2019-12-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:40:15AM -0600]: > Ian, please don't. Just to get this off my head - I am sorry for the tone used in my own mail I'm replying to. While I do stand by not wanting this proposal by Ian to proceed, the "reasoning" paragraph that followed is not rightly