Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-07 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bdale Garbee: I'm not comfortable with a mandate that packages may not require a specific init system as pid 1. Could we (or rather, the CTTE) compromise on packages may mandate the default init system? -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014, Steve Langasek wrote: Where would this ballot option rank vis-à-vis FD, for those TC members who are opposed to the loose coupling option? I'm planning on ranking everything above FD. However, I would rank this particular option at the same level as L. == dependencies

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Re: Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): As things stand, it seems that each set of dependency rider options will have some members of the TC voting them below FD. Which means I don't think we've actually gotten to the bottom of this issue

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Steve Langasek writes: Where would this ballot option rank vis-à-vis FD, for those TC members who are opposed to the loose coupling option? [...] AFAICT neither Russ or Bdale have directly answered your question. I thought I did, sorry.

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread Thilos Rich
Plus sysvinit support isn't forever, since eventually it will be deprecated as more and more parts of the system drop support for it. Why? There is nothing wrong with sysv init for most of us. Why is there insistance (or seemingly triumphal predictions) that those of us who are happy with the

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread James Rhodes
The point that is being made is not you can't run software with shell scripts if you want, it's don't expect developers to write or maintain them for you. Regards, James Rhodes. On 3 February 2014 12:48, Thilos Rich thilos.r...@aol.com wrote: Plus sysvinit support isn't forever, since

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread Thilos Rich
, 2014 2:00 am Subject: Re: Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal The point that is being made is not you can't run software with shell scripts if you want, it's don't expect developers to write or maintain them for you. Regards, James Rhodes. On 3 February 2014

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread James Rhodes
we will not help you If you want to run a configuration that is not supported by a developer, then no, I would not expect them to help you. Free software does not entitle you to free help, nor does it entitle you to demand others do or don't do things a particular way.

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 09:30:36PM -0500, Thilos Rich wrote: Don't be facetious. The point that is being made is: Thilos, James, this is not the appropriate place for you to have this conversation. Please leave this bug for its intended purpose, which is the technical commitee's discussion

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-02 Thread William Giokas
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 09:30:36PM -0500, Thilos Rich wrote: Don't be facetious. The point that is being made is: F U C K system v init. F U C K anyone who relies on it, uses it, likes it, we will not help you, we will not continue on with it, F U C K U N I X, F U C K old sys admins. No,

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:13:25PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: No, Josselin was making the technical claim that GNOME 3.10 would need a working logind even for basic functionality. So if it is possible to get the basic functionality of GNOME 3.10 without a working logind, his claim is just

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): Thus, for me, all of the T variants in Ian's latest draft (21226.41292.366504.997...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) rank below FD. Note that there is a difference, of course, between GR and FD, in the voting

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): [stuff] Thanks for that, which I mostly agree with. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:13:25PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Thus, for me, all of the T variants in Ian's latest draft (21226.41292.366504.997

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: And so I am greatly dismayed by the position Russ and Bdale have taken in this discussion with respect to packages being allowed to depend on a specific init system. Both have expressed the opinion that Debian should remain open to alternative init

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 07:28:49PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): Thus, for me, all of the T variants in Ian's latest draft (21226.41292.366504.997...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) rank below FD. In my mail

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Where would this ballot option rank vis-à-vis FD, for those TC members who are opposed to the loose coupling option? == dependencies rider version S (split-the-init) == This decision is limited to selecting a default initsystem; we continue to

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: And so I am greatly dismayed by the position Russ and Bdale have taken in this discussion with respect to packages being allowed to depend on a specific init system. Both have expressed the opinion that Debian should remain

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org writes: It should be completely trivial to introduce a virtual org-freedesktop-login1 package (modulo any complexities introduced by interface versioning for new methods added to that interface). However, it also seems pointless until there's a prospective

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:21:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org writes: It should be completely trivial to introduce a virtual org-freedesktop-login1 package (modulo any complexities introduced by interface versioning for new methods added to that

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:12:34PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: In particular, in the case of GNOME, I don't see any package in the archive yet for a fork of logind that depends on systemd-shim instead of systemd, so there's no alternative available for GNOME to depend on. There is no fork of

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 05:23:11PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:12:34PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: In particular, in the case of GNOME, I don't see any package in the archive yet for a fork of logind that depends on systemd-shim instead of systemd, so there's no

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 11:25:01AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Josselin has asserted not only that he considers systemd-as-init a hard dependency for GNOME in jessie, but that he expects the release team to side with him over the Technical Committee if the TC does not agree with him. This is

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:13:25PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: And that does matter a lot, since such claims seem to be the basis of all these GNOME in jessie needs systemd or with multiple init systems, GNOME will need a dependency on

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 à 22:43 +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd#sysvinit_.2B-_insserv Since you forgot to paste the first sentence, let me add it here. “Sysvinit was never designed to cope with the dynamic/event-based architecture of the

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Given that, your opinions about the quality of GNOME upstream development don't seem relevant to the problem we're trying to resolve. If you don't like the software, don't use it. Unfortunately, it doesn't save us, as the set of

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klumpp dixit: 2014-01-30 ChaosEsque Team chaosesquet...@yahoo.com: [bullshit] This was actually *not* bullshit. The delivery of most of the content could use some polishing, but the content is a(n inconvenient) truth. Wasn't there some kind of a ban applied here? Apparently not, but

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:05:05PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: This was actually *not* bullshit. The delivery of most of the content could use some polishing, but the content is a(n inconvenient) truth. Man, if someone was spouting garbage like that in support of systemd, you bet your mksh

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Putting it another way, then, I expect there are some people who will not want systemd on their GNU/Linux systems. I don't think it matters if their reasons are technical, political, irrational fear or personal dislike of the creator; I'd like them to have that choice and for it to work as well

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-01-30 Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de: Matthias Klumpp dixit: 2014-01-30 ChaosEsque Team chaosesquet...@yahoo.com: [bullshit] This was actually *not* bullshit. The delivery of most of the content could use some polishing, but the content is a(n inconvenient) truth. Wasn't there some

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klumpp dixit: What would happen if we adopted systemd? The project would lose (a different set of) contributors and users. The OSS ecosystem would lose, vendor-lock-in would ensue in a way even worse than the FSF does, and the remnants of Unix/GNU in Debian would die, to be replaced by

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthias Klumpp writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.): What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? In this hypothetical scenario: It would be fairly easy

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/01/14 17:01, Thorsten Glaser wrote: And the GNOME/systemd people are invited to make their dream of the FLOS GNOME OS into a Debian derivate or Pure Blend. If the chosen default is something other than systemd, and if the TC resolution does not prevent GNOME having a hard dependency on

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? Of course, Debian would have played with it's muscles, but in the end we would have lost GNOME users, all GNOME developers and many motivated

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 à 21:38 +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : [Lots of crap] Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve? https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd#sysvinit_.2B-_insserv -- .''`.Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Bastien Beudart
Matthias Klumpp writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.): What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? In this hypothetical scenario: It would be fairly easy

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:47:02PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 à 21:38 +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : [Lots of crap] Nice argumentation, as usual... Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve?

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: GNOME upstream won't really change Why? There are non-Linux GNOME users, for example. If the GNOME developers don't care even about such popular

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? In this hypothetical scenario: It would be fairly easy for a downstream of Debian to mandate systemd for their users, and provide Gnome. It would not

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Keith Packard
Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com writes: Are X-people indeed sacrifice portability, or there is something different (e.g. these dependencies are optional)? Speaking as the X server release manager, the systemd patches exist solely to provide for interoperation with systemd or other

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-01-31 Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com: Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com writes: [...] Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve? For X, the problem is running X as a user other than root, which should provide for increased system security as we'll be reducing

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Keith Packard
Matthias Klumpp matth...@tenstral.net writes: Of course it does not exclude implementing that stuff in a different, non-systemd tool, but to my knowledge nobody has done that yet. Exactly so. I have ideas on how this might work in a simpler and more general fashion, but people rarely listen to

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 08:16 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : No. My question isn't

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:05:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 28 janvier 2014

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:50:00PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: ... Further, in my experience it was *way* more stable to either go for full systemd or always rely on the reduced functionality. The runtime detection of is systemd running as PID 1 was IMO not very stable (and that wasn't just

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 19:03 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : No, you are not. There are several features in systemd that GNOME uses. One of them is user sessions, for which there will indeed be a fallback in place. But it is not the only one. Can you provide a list of features

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 06:41:11PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 19:03 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : ... Assuming jessie will support multiple init systems, why would GNOME need a dependency on systemd? Because it needs logind.

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 20:00 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : What *basic functionality* exactly is missing in GNOME 3.10 without logind? Note that I am not referring to bugs that are not yet sorted out like * Switch from consolekit to systemd-logind sessions. For some reason

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:17:29PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 20:00 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : What *basic functionality* exactly is missing in GNOME 3.10 without logind? Note that I am not referring to bugs that are not yet sorted out like * Switch

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 20:43 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : You have the answer to your own question above. Unlocking the screen sounds like pretty basic functionality. Your statement was I also have to insist that GNOME 3.10+ *needs* a working logind even for basic functionality

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:17:29PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 20:00 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : What *basic functionality* exactly is missing in GNOME 3.10 without logind? Note that I am not referring to bugs that are

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:27:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:17:29PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 20:00 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : What *basic functionality* exactly is missing in GNOME 3.10

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-01-29 Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de: [...] I do fully acknowledge that there are issues with ConsoleKit being unmaintained and many non-systemd codepath in GNOME being unmaintained and with GNOME missing some non-basic functionality without systemd. But claims that even basic functionality

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klumpp dixit: No, Josselin is right: GNOME *does not* work without services provided by systemd. He never said that - given some amount of work - it can't Hum, we can always add “remove GNOME (3) from Debian” to the list of GR or TC points to consider (this *has* been suggested earlier,

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:24:16PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2014-01-29 Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de: [...] I do fully acknowledge that there are issues with ConsoleKit being unmaintained and many non-systemd codepath in GNOME being unmaintained and with GNOME missing some non-basic

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:27:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm still wondering if maybe there's just a communication failure here, so let me try one more round. My understanding of what Josselin is saying is that GNOME's ConsoleKit support is

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:45:32PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Matthias Klumpp dixit: No, Josselin is right: GNOME *does not* work without services provided by systemd. He never said that - given some amount of work - it can't Hum, we can always add “remove GNOME (3) from Debian” to the

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:17:29 +0100 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Gnome-shell uses GDM for screen locking, and GDM heavily relies on logind nowadays. There is fallback code that uses ConsoleKit, but it has been untested for several major releases, and now fails even for

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:54:11PM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:17:29 +0100 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Gnome-shell uses GDM for screen locking, and GDM heavily relies on logind nowadays. There is fallback code that uses ConsoleKit, but it has been

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread James Rhodes
On 30 January 2014 09:54, Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me wrote: Hello, On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:17:29 +0100 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Gnome-shell uses GDM for screen locking, and GDM heavily relies on logind nowadays. There is fallback code that uses ConsoleKit, but it

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me writes: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Gnome-shell uses GDM for screen locking, and GDM heavily relies on logind nowadays. There is fallback code that uses ConsoleKit, but it has been untested for several major releases, and now fails even for

Bug#727708: Re: Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-29 Thread ChaosEsque Team
This sounds like a good solution, since MATE is the gnome we all knew, and the Gnome of today is a different beast entirely (though it gets to keep the name). :: Hum, we can always add “remove GNOME (3) from Debian” to the list of GR or TC points to consider (this *has* been suggested earlier,

Bug#727708: Re: Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-29 Thread ChaosEsque Team
If you don't like the software, don't use it. Absolutely. But that is not really an option that is to be afforded to all of us if the systemd guys successfully have their way with linux. It would be nice if they afforded us such a freedom, but their statements and their actions suggest that

Bug#727708: Re: Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-01-30 ChaosEsque Team chaosesquet...@yahoo.com: [bullshit] Wasn't there some kind of a ban applied here? I am confused. Cheers, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 08:16 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: You are forgetting the best technical solution, which is what gnome-session is actually implementing at the moment: session_tracking=systemd (with fallback to ConsoleKit) [1] No.

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 08:16 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : No. My question isn't about logind, but about using a user systemd session to supervise processes started by the session. IIRC both GNOME and KDE were

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Gilbert dixit: Why not avoid impeding progress and just let gnome do what it needs to work the way it wants, which would involve depending on the right Excuse me, why is GNOME, specifically, being allowed to “do what it wants”, in this case? Imagine other software with a more-or-less

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Olav Vitters dixit: IMO other init systems should provide the interfaces which GNOME requires. It is not up to GNOME to provide these. That or takeup There is a lot wrong with that statement. Imagine you’re working on/with a software FOO that is not yet packaged in Debian. Say it comes from the

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 08:16 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : No. My question isn't about logind, but about using a user systemd session to supervise

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 07:34:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 08:16 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : No. My question isn't

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Gilbert dixit: Why not avoid impeding progress and just let gnome do what it needs to work the way it wants, which would involve depending on the right Excuse me, why is GNOME, specifically, being allowed to “do what it wants”,

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ian Jackson writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. I hereby propose and accept an amendment to add a new

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and code remain healthy. Nothing outside of an init system's implementation may require a

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:09AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: ... == version multiple only == 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and code remain healthy. Nothing outside of an

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:54:13PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and code remain healthy. Nothing

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:40:01AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: ... [1] That's ignoring the possibility that a non-systemd logind replacement with sufficient functionality for all software following the latest logind features might show up one day - but ,,, Please ignore this part of

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 janvier 2014 07:23 CET, Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de : You are forgetting the best technical solution, which is what gnome-session is actually implementing at the moment: session_tracking=systemd (with fallback to ConsoleKit) [1] Sure, the best technical solution is to rely on an

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:09AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: ... == version multiple only == 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and code

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and code remain healthy. Nothing outside of an init system's

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. I agree with this in principle, but I think this loses quite a bit of nuance and is likely, phrased in that way, to be used as a stick to beat

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. I agree with this in principle, but I think this loses

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 16:59 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 16:59 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. 2. Debian intends to support

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 27 janvier 2014 à 17:48 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : Josselin Mouette writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): Since this resolution would override the will of each maintainer to make his package depend on whatever init system the software depends

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes: 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities and code remain healthy. Nothing outside of an init system's

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal): I hereby propose the following resolution: 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie. I hereby propose and accept an amendment to add a new rubric paragraph 0, and I also propose and do NOT accept