Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Yes. I would still prefer to see something like that. I don't remember exactly what the objections were and I'm very very tired now but perhaps something like We expect that Debian will continue to support mkultiple init systems for

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:45:19AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Yes. I would still prefer to see something like that. I don't remember exactly what the objections were and I'm very very tired now but perhaps something like We

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes (Bug#727708: package to change init systems): I've been trying to avoid making decisions now about what happens beyond jessie, but I would not object to including that text since I think it's true for at least some values of support. OK, good. After a bit of wordsmithing

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes (Re: Bug#727708: package to change init systems): On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:45:19AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: I've been trying to avoid making decisions now about what happens beyond jessie, but I would not object to including that text since I think it's true

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#727708: package to change init systems): Adrian, does that address your point ? I think that phrasing makes it clear that the remaining text (whether T or L) applies past jessie, too. To expand on what Adrian says in his next mails, the result is that you might have

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Bug#727708: package to change init systems): Bdale, if this is not acceptable to you then please say. Bdale has said on irc that he's happy. So I hereby withdraw my previous amendments and propose and accept and do not accept amendments so as to produce the following set

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:13:06PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Bdale Garbee writes (Bug#727708: package to change init systems): I've been trying to avoid making decisions now about what happens beyond jessie, but I would not object to including that text since I think it's true for at least

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes (Bug#727708: package to change init systems): On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:13:06PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: == clarification text for all versions except GR == This decision is limited to selecting a default initsystem for jessie. We expect that Debian

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#727708: package to change init systems): I would be happy to do this. Anyone object to me prefixing Therefore, for jessie and later releases: before the T/L Software ... paragraphs ? Following another exchange on IRC I have now done this in git, and I hereby propose

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: UT upstart default in jessie, requiring specific init is allowed So just to ensure I don't misunderstand: The way I read the texts, you could have e.g. Upstart as default init system and GNOME depend on

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Olav Vitters writes (Re: Bug#727708: package to change init systems): On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: UT upstart default in jessie, requiring specific init is allowed So just to ensure I don't misunderstand: The way I read the texts

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 10:44:27PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: ... I think L is a bad technical design, regardless of the relative merits of the possible init systems that we might switch to. It's effectively equivalent to requiring sysvinit support for all packages indefinitely, and if we

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: No, it does not require sysvinit support for all packages indefinitely. The current TC decision is *for jessie*. The D/U/O/V/GR options are for jessie. T and L aren't. Nothing in T or L are limited to jessie. If that's what you think they should say, then

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 11:44:55AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adrian Bunk b...@stusta.de writes: No, it does not require sysvinit support for all packages indefinitely. The current TC decision is *for jessie*. The D/U/O/V/GR options are for jessie. T and L aren't. Nothing in T or L

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-02 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Cameron Norman writes: This is not really what I was interested in. I want a package for each init system (init-systemd, init-upstart, etc.) that uses something like init-select (under the hood) to prompt the user to change the init system.

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes (Bug#727708: package to change init systems): This decision is limited to selecting a default initsystem; we continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems. ... there is an in jessie at the top, and it is stated nowhere that any part

Bug#727708: package to change init systems [was: Bug#727708: Processed: block 726763 with 727708]

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, February 01, 2014 19:14:21 Cameron Norman wrote: On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I *like* systemd, and I would still be very unhappy if a routine aptitude upgrade (or even a dist-upgrade) of a system currently running sysvinit suddenly

Bug#727708: package to change init systems [was: Bug#727708: Processed: block 726763 with 727708]

2014-02-01 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.uswrote: On Saturday, February 01, 2014 19:14:21 Cameron Norman wrote: On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I *like* systemd, and I would still be very unhappy if a routine aptitude upgrade

Bug#727708: package to change init systems

2014-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Cameron Norman camerontnor...@gmail.com writes: This is not really what I was interested in. I want a package for each init system (init-systemd, init-upstart, etc.) that uses something like init-select (under the hood) to prompt the user to change the init system. This will allow packages