Re: Heads up: xorg-server 1.15 soon in sid

2014-02-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:04:47 +, Robert Millan wrote: > On 28/01/2014 22:39, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I haven't been able > > to test nv, msm, omap, omapfb or sunffb. > > nv builds fine. Thanks for the heads-up. > It doesn't seem to be whitelisted in wanna-build, so I'm unable to binNMU

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-02-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-30 16:23, Robert Millan wrote: > On 30/01/2014 00:03, Niels Thykier wrote: >> @Robert: Re your "Could you elaborate?". I haven't forgotten it, but I >> out of time - so I will get back to you on that. > > It's ok. > > I wanted more detail both on the problem and on the solution. You j

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Ed Maste
On 12 February 2014 09:05, Robert Millan wrote: > There's a small glitch during VT switch: immediately after pressing the > keys, screen is redrawn, but where you'd normally see the login prompt, > blurry characers are drawn. After a fraction of a second, these are replaced > with proper glyphs. S

Processed: Re: Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 VGA Newcons is awfully slow Bug #738188 [kfreebsd-image-11.0-0-amd64] VESA Newcons is awfully slow Changed Bug title to 'VGA Newcons is awfully slow' from 'VESA Newcons is awfully slow' -- 738188: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738188

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
Control: retitle -1 VGA Newcons is awfully slow Hi Ed, On 09/02/2014 19:47, Ed Maste wrote: > On what hardware (or VM) do you experience this? On my Thinkpad X220 > the console is acceptably performant in both VGA-mode (at boot) and > i915 (after starting X), with a FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel from t

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 12 February 2014 12:23, Robert Millan wrote: > On 12/02/2014 12:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> There are a few reasons to keep sysvinit scripts maintained for jessie: >> 1. for smoother upgrades from wheezy >> 2. in order to backport jessie packages to wheezy >> 3. for non-Linux (or non-syste

Processed: Re: Bug#738486: freebsd-nfs-common: NFSv4 non-functional due to missing nfsuserd and nfscbd

2014-02-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 help Bug #738486 [freebsd-nfs-common] freebsd-nfs-common: NFSv4 non-functional due to missing nfsuserd and nfscbd Added tag(s) help. -- 738486: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738486 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
On 09/02/2014 12:56, Markus Koschany wrote: > Switching between virtual terminals and X works flawlessly after I > loaded the intel drivers manually. What about switching from one VT to another? (no X involved) -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Bug#738486: freebsd-nfs-common: NFSv4 non-functional due to missing nfsuserd and nfscbd

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
Control: tag -1 help Hi Roger, Unfortunately we're very short on manpower to add new features. Do you think you'd be able to help with this one? On 09/02/2014 22:11, Roger Leigh wrote: > Package: freebsd-nfs-common > Version: 9.2+ds1-1+b1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > It does

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/02/14 13:18, Robert Millan wrote: > Or maybe backward compat? I hear some of the new init implementations > support SysV. SysV init scripts? I thought this was obvious, or maybe I misunderstand what you mean. *All* of the init systems that were discussed by the TC, even systemd (for now), c

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
On 12/02/2014 12:40, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Although, come jessie+1, I wonder how upgrades will be handled, if > sysvinit scripts go away. Maybe Pre-Depends. Or maybe have written instructions to install the new init by hand, like we often do for kernels. Or maybe backward compat? I hear som

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/02/14 12:23, Robert Millan wrote: > If we have to support it anyway, is it really worth spending effort on > Upstart/OpenRC for Jessie? Right, sysvinit is a viable and easy option for jessie; having any other init systems working is a bonus. At least we know now that we need to concentrate

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
On 12/02/2014 12:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > There are a few reasons to keep sysvinit scripts maintained for jessie: > 1. for smoother upgrades from wheezy > 2. in order to backport jessie packages to wheezy > 3. for non-Linux (or non-systemd) ports > > So ports are not the only reason. And y

[Fwd: Re: Init system for non-Linux ports]

2014-02-12 Thread Svante Signell
Forwarded Message From: Svante Signell To: debian-h...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Init system for non-Linux ports Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:02:45 +0100 On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 10:45 +, Robert Millan wrote: > On 29/01/2014 09:26, Petr Salinger wrote: > What is the current s

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/02/14 10:45, Robert Millan wrote: > I'm a bit afraid that even if sysvinit itself stays mostly fine, the scripts > written for > it could turn into a bunch of bitrot. There are a few reasons to keep sysvinit scripts maintained for jessie: 1. for smoother upgrades from wheezy 2. in order to

Re: [Fwd: Re: Init system for non-Linux ports]

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/02/14 12:04, Svante Signell wrote: > I fear that it is currently broken since one of the latest patches. Do > you have a (scrappable) pre-installed image I can download, ala: > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/ Yes, Aurelien Jarno has kindly made these: > http://blog.aurel32.ne

Re: Init system for non-Linux ports

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Millan
On 29/01/2014 09:26, Petr Salinger wrote: >> 1. stay with sysvinit >> 2. switch to OpenRC unconditionally >> 3. switch to Upstart unconditionally >> 4. switch to Upstart only if Linux uses it by default, otherwise OpenRC >> 5. further discussion >> >> Please rank the above putting your preferred op