Bug#726763: Bug#727708: Processed: block 726763 with 727708

2014-02-06 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Sorry to add more noise to #727708, but I feel the need to clarify some accusations that have been made before. First of all, there's been no malice from our side as you have accused us of in this thread. As an example, if you look at the last gdm3 and gnome-shell 3.8.x uploads and their bug

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2014-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 12:57:39PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Colin Watson The de facto interface for making an init system the default is to install it as /sbin/init. While I'm coming at this from a starting point different from Cameron's above - I haven't yet decided whether I

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2014-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Colin Watson On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 12:57:39PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Colin Watson The de facto interface for making an init system the default is to install it as /sbin/init. While I'm coming at this from a starting point different from Cameron's above - I haven't

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2014-02-04 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 16:53 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 12:57:39PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: You mean, like installing the systemd-sysv package? Indeed; but people earlier in this thread have said that this isn't the preferred approach, so I was arguing that this

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2014-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 06:21:13PM -0800, Cameron Norman wrote: I think there is a huge problem with recommending that systemd be installed by the user changing the init line in grub: a package can not depend on an init system being PID 1. Can a package be made that changes the init line to

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2014-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Colin Watson The de facto interface for making an init system the default is to install it as /sbin/init. While I'm coming at this from a starting point different from Cameron's above - I haven't yet decided whether I think it would be good for packages to be able to depend on specific

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2014-02-01 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 15:24 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: While I think the Depends: systemd should be dropped (via a split of the systemd package), that's not required for fixing the present problem. That can be addressed by having gnome-settings-daemon Depends: systemd, systemd-shim |

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2014-02-01 Thread Josh Triplett
[I'm going to avoid responding to the points of this mail that Russ already did in his response, in favor of just agreeing entirely with that mail.] Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:34:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that the proper

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2014-02-01 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi wrote: On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 15:24 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: While I think the Depends: systemd should be dropped (via a split of the systemd package), that's not required for fixing the present problem. That can be

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2014-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Cameron Norman camerontnor...@gmail.com writes: I think there is a huge problem with recommending that systemd be installed by the user changing the init line in grub: a package can not depend on an init system being PID 1. Can a package be made that changes the init line to systemd? I think

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2014-02-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: 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 resulted in running systemd without some sort of critical debconf question or the like. Indeed.

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2014-02-01 Thread Cameron Norman
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 resulted in running systemd without some sort of critical debconf

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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

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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