Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
in the same direction to provide the best possible OS, we will continue to coast, squandering efforts on preserving users' ability to make choices about things that no user should ever be asked to care about. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 04:04:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: From comments made by various GNOME upstream developers on this, I think they are being suitably cautious about avoiding scope creep where the systemd dependencies are concerned. So

Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
generators. But what would the equivalent to /etc/init/failsafe.conf look like? I think this would be very difficult to express in systemd language, yet it's altogether vital for providing a boot that is both reliably ordered, and recoverable in the event of problems. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:04:09PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Oh, sorry, I forgot to respond to this part. Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Of course if we were writing all our services according to best practices, we wouldn't have to worry about this, as the service would just

Re: Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
in, assuming your service is not actually in the dependency path of the user logging in. And what makes this work in the case where you *aren't* using NetworkManager? I see no integration with ifupdown in the systemd package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
; but in my estimation, the flaws wrt system startup (which as far as I can see also affect the systemd implementation) make it altogether unsuitable for any services you're expecting to have started at boot, and we have deliberately avoided its use in Ubuntu. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Bug#727708: systemd and upstart, a view from a daemon Debian maintainer

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
script which is already being called. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:21:07AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 29 décembre 2013 à 01:10 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : If I'm not mistaken (no references to hand - sorry), systemd upstream has claimed in the course of discussions on debian-devel that lazy activation

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
. and/or are if there other features in upstart that you think will never deliver the benefits one would naively expect from them? Socket-based activation has never been a feature that upstart upstream has promoted the use of. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#727708: systemd and upstart, a view from a daemon Debian maintainer

2013-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
systemd's maintainers are also trying to fix the problem with daemon automatically starting after install. They would have used triggers otherwise. What problem do you refer to here? Starting daemons automatically on install is a policy-driven expectation, not a problem. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#727708: upstart upstream maintenance practices

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
upstream delta is 441 lines. So this message is 25% of the size of the delta that it describes. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
for debuggability). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#727708: systemd jessie - jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 19 décembre 2013 à 12:35 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : The reasons for not upgrading to the current version of logind aren't to do with any fragility of the existing glue code (the systemd-shim package

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
. As I said, I just think there's a trade-off between supporting this and having confusing complexity exposed to the users. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 06:52:51PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison): It would

Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian [and 1 more messages]

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
the other. Do you agree? If so, perhaps we should table this particular thread; we can always discuss the finer points of implementation outside the TC decision. Of course if you disagree, and feel this is a point that's relevant to the TC decision, I'd like to understand why. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#727708: systemd jessie - jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
immediately so that we have a say in its direction between now and jessie, instead of waiting until after jessie and finding ourselves with two more years of entrenched bugs / design problems to sort out when integrating with it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
system. I don't think it's the highest priority for implementing, but it would have its uses and the init system is best placed to handle it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Bug#727708: systemd jessie - jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
on non-Linux anyway, and is a much better choice than supporting consolekit indefinitely for those ports. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian

2013-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
penalty for users who weren't running upstart and thought that might be impolite. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: Next Debian CTTE Meeting is at date -d 'Thu Dec 19 18:00:00 UTC 2013' on #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org

2013-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
meeting to: date -d 'Thu Dec 19 18:00:00 UTC 2013' I'll update the calendar and IRC channel shortly. Heh. I assume this is moved up with only three days notice to increase the chances that I will again miss finishing my action before this month's meeting. ;) -- Steve Langasek

Re: Scheduling the next IRC Meeting (December 26th or some other day?)

2013-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
time 3. 27th same time 4. 28th same time 5. 29th same time 6. 30th same time 7. Some other time (I will do a doodle poll) Any of these times look ok to me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#727708: upstart (security) bugs

2013-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
mandated a security label. I think that would be a great waste of the tech committee's time and attention. When you start digging for security issues in prerelease code that doesn't /warrant/ a CVE, this is no longer an apples-to-apples comparison. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Bug#727708: systemd and support for other distros

2013-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
of paths to system utilities, which a) is not portable between distributions and b) contradicts Debian policy. So systemd upstream may support separate /usr, but that doesn't change the fact that there are still portability issues when one starts writing systemd units. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Russ, On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 08:11:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: For the TC decision, what kind of information are you looking for about the plans, beyond the Ubuntu developers expect to need to address this before upgrading from systemd

Bug#727708: systemd and support for other distros

2013-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:24:41AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Note that the original complaint in the samba upstream discussion was about hard-coding of paths to system utilities, which a) is not portable between distributions and b) contradicts

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Ubuntu is using logind and is iirc maintained there by Steve Langasek. It's collectively maintained in Ubuntu; I do help with it, but Martin Pitt does most of the routine maintenance for the systemd source package (udev, logind). Beside that, there are among others: the timezoned is ensuring

Bug#728486: Current patch for resolving lvm/systemd compatibility

2013-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
, should Bastian agree to that. This was my concern with the technical implementation as well. I would be happy with lvm2/systemd integration that used a static configuration instead of requiring a generator. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-12-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:07:17PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:07:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: All distributions care about not having security issues in their code, but that's not the same thing as actually doing the work to audit the code. In practice

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
security design of either sysvinit or upstart, namely that the user-accessible interfaces are kept as small as possible to make them as auditable as possible. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
closely yet…? :) Unless you're offering to do a security audit of upstart, I don't think such speculation changes anything. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Call for votes re new member for the Technical Committee

2013-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
is the final resolution. I hereby call for a vote. There are three options: Packard, Kern and FD. I vote: Kern, Packard, FD. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
and forth interminably polishing our rhetoric, but I'd rather turn our attention to actual questions that the other members of the TC find relevant. ;) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
one ballot option, or that the ballot option they propose must be their first choice. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
, but possible. Or if you don't need to worry about a non-racy startup for the service you're testing, just omit the 'expect' stanza entirely. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 05:39:15PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]): I agree. It would still require some fiddling to make 'expect stop' work together with strace anyway, since upstart

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements [was: systemd vs. whatever]): I agree with all of the technical critiques here, I just don't see that this relatively minor issue, which can

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
logind 204 and will hold at 204 until a correct solution is known? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:20:12AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:41:53AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm surprised by this comment. Very little policy is actually encoded in upstart's C code; in fact, the only policy I can think of offhand that is is some basic

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:22:14PM +, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:20:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Right. Whichever init system we pick, I do expect the next step to be to drop the requirement to maintain sysvinit backwards-compatibility; While I'm not sure

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-29 Thread Steve Langasek
how to structure that work if we haven't even decided yet if that work will be necessary. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#727708: FYI: upstream’s take

2013-10-29 Thread Steve Langasek
that lets individual processes interface with /sys/fs/cgroup, not an implementor of the userspace cgroup manager service. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
be straightforwardly worked out once we have a decision on the direction. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: I don't think either of these are the right question. Even if we change the default init system for jessie, because we *must* support backwards compatibility with sysvinit for upgrades

Bug#671364: Please decide on dma maintenance

2013-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
as a comaintainer without *explicit* consent is a sleazy bypass of our normal (QA, TC) processes for changing a package's maintainership. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Bug#671364: Please decide on dma maintenance

2013-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
amicably, consensually and with no need for a TC vote. Arno, Laurent: are either or both of you willing to take over the package as maintainers? Should we close this bug report directly, or should it be reassigned to wnpp as a RFA: or O: bug? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
)? It still doesn't comply with policy 8.1. But I think that's a policy bug and that this bug report should be referred over to the policy package; I don't see anything further here that needs the technical committee's involvement. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:27:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: I'm not sure how you've arrived at this conclusion. Have you overlooked that the shlibs in the ntfs-3g package have been fixed by the maintainer in unstable (as commented in bug #700677

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
? Exactly. Because making package B uninstallable is much more acceptable than making it unrunnable. Neither is an acceptable way of handling Debian testing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
it, is definitely buggy. If you're happy with this patch I don't see any reason that the tech ctte needs to be involved in any sort of formal ruling here, and the policy language polishing question can be referred to debian-policy for discussion. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Bug#700759: Re: Bug#700677: Incorrect upstream versioning / ABI breakage

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:45:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:57:46AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 16/02/13 05:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: n 02/16/2013 03:40 AM, Colin Watson wrote: have ntfs-3g Provides: libntfs-3gSOVER (substituted as appropriate

Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
a critical blocker for the release is a good way to make sure releases don't happen. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 04:26:49PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: How about this for a disposal: I would vote for the below with reservation or modifications. Thanks for drafting this, Ian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

2012-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
is necessary to force this particular remedy which, in any event, would be an imperfect solution for the user-affecting bugs. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#688772: Call for votes for resolving #688772 [gnome Depends network-manager-gnome]

2012-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
I vote BCFA. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

2012-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 09:50:37AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steve Langasek - Installing the gnome or the NM package must not cause the network to break on upgrade, even temporarily, under any circumstances. Is this a requirement for other network-providing packages as well

Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

2012-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
of leaving an empty or commented-out file Even setting aside the fact that taking a name from one network device and giving it to another is largely full of kernel/udev race lulz, I don't see any way that this scenario is something Debian should be concerned about supporting. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek

Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

2012-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:35:49PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:18:31AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: (Furthermore, I think the whole idea of needing custom desktop infrastructure to tell apps whether they're online or not is silly; you're online if you have

Bug#573745: Call for votes on Python Maintainer Question

2012-10-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 02:05:53PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: I call for a vote on the following resolution to #573745. I vote CBFA. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: Bug#573745: Initial draft of resolution of the Python Maintainer question

2012-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
team with comaintainers, not before. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#681687: Call for votes on evince MIME entry

2012-08-10 Thread Steve Langasek
to them on automation. F. Further Discussion. I vote BAF. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
advertised by evince via the mime system in squeeze. Otherwise I have no objections here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org

Re: debian-ctte git repository

2012-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
, no? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org

Re: roaraudio dispute

2012-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
this would be an issue for the other packages that have dropped celt support. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
, to be fixed for wheezy, regardless of whether NM is being pulled in by default on upgrade? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#681783: Are Recommends really important (especially for metapackages)?

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
for a default Debian desktop, we might replace it with a different one - perhaps one that the GNOME team would be willing to maintain and keep synchronized with the existing package, but under a different binary package name. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
preserved in wheezy. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#681419: Alternative dependencies on non-free packages in main

2012-07-13 Thread Steve Langasek
the logical dependency, they should not have to install another free package to satisfy the annotated dependency. This applies regardless of what kind of non-free it is. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: Draft resolution for node+nodejs

2012-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
I'm calling for votes on the below resolution on the Node/NodeJS question. === Resolution === The Technical Committee reaffirms the importance of preventing namespace collisions for programs in the distribution, while recognizing that compatibility with upstreams and with previous Debian releases

Re: Draft resolution for node+nodejs

2012-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 05:08:17PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: === Resolution === The Technical Committee reaffirms the importance of preventing namespace collisions for programs in the distribution, while recognizing that compatibility with upstreams and with previous Debian releases is also

Bug#614907: Draft resolution for node+nodejs

2012-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
for feedback until 30 Jun 00:00:00 UTC before calling for a vote, in case there are bugs above. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#614907: Draft resolution for node+nodejs

2012-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
transition plan for node and nodejs 2. Further discussion I'll wait for feedback until 30 Jun 00:00:00 UTC before calling for a vote, in case there are bugs above. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: IRC Meeting (Thursday, May 31, 2012) Notes and Logs (Time in PDT)

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
grabbed the wrong bug number. The one I had /meant/ to take was for bug #573745. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: node

2012-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
technical path forward. If there are specific technical objections to the proposed resolution, we should of course take those on board; but I don't think it helps anything to waffle on the question of who is making the decision. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: periodic tech-ctte IRC meetings

2012-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
Wednesdays, so the final agreed time is tomorrow (date -d @1338483600), per 20120511001418.gk3...@rzlab.ucr.edu. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
not want collaboration from his fellow DDs when it's you who continues to make it very clear that you want him out. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: periodic tech-ctte IRC meetings

2012-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
). It looks like this works for me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#614907: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 09:49:11PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-05-06 at 10:22am, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 03:07:27AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: We have until now maintained Nodejs only in unstable because requests to rename axnode was met with either

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 10:50:21PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: * Steve Langasek [2012-05-04 09:49 -0700]: On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 08:38:43AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael's approach of creating a compatibility symlink in postinst during upgrades but not for new installs sounds better

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
an acceptable compromise under the circumstances. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Bug#614907: tech-ctte: please help maintainers of packages with a node command to have a reasonable conversation

2012-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
a different name. Clint Byrum has nudged me about this (wearing his Ubuntu Server hat rather than his shiny new Debian Developer hat) and I've agreed to approach node.js upstream about a possible upstream rename. I'll report back to the TC what I find out. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: tech-ctte: please help maintainers of packages with a node command to have a reasonable conversation

2012-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 07:58:59PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:23:21PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Best of luck. You know they've been asked twice before (once for Fedora, once for Debian), right? No, didn't know that. Were

Re: Bug#640874: leave: debian/rules is not a Makefile

2012-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
that this is not what our DPLs expected when expanding the scope of delegated roles within the project. Perhaps Ian would like to chime in here wearing his I wrote the constitution hat. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Bug#658341: Call for Vote: upload of multi-arch enabled dpkg (in time for wheezy)

2012-02-05 Thread Steve Langasek
. B. The Technical Committee declines to override the decision of the dpkg maintainer to hold the dpkg multiarch implementation until he can finish code review. C. Further discussion. I vote ACB. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: Bug#640874: leave: debian/rules is not a Makefile

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
the question of requiring debian/rules to be a makefile or not. I do think that there are lots of other reasons we want to be able to rely on makefile behavior from debian/rules on the developer side - introspection for the build-arch transition being a good example of this. -- Steve Langasek

Re: dpkg-buildflags and makefile snippet

2011-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
don't think dpkg should be exposing such an interface at all. We don't want to encourage the use of makefile includes for such things. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: Bug#552688: Please decide how Debian should enable hardening build flags

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
they're no longer needed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#552688: Please decide how Debian should enable hardening build flags

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
to assume that all build flags can be delimited by a space character? Counterexample: -Wl,-z -Wl,defs While this *can* also be written as -Wl,-z,defs, I'm not sure there's any way to guarantee it will be? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement debian/rules build-arch

2011-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:32:12PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: * Steve Langasek [2011-07-23 15:45 +0200]: BTW, another option for the long-term solution which we haven't really addressed head-on is that dpkg-buildpackage could detect whether both arch-indep and arch-dep packages are present

Re: Discussing hardening build flags

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
to be done with the following cross-architecture dependency policy discussion by 6pm. If I'm available I'm happy to participate, but I also don't know that a fourth TC member will add anything to the discussion that three won't already provide. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement debian/rules build-arch

2011-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 08:14:55PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 15:45:08 +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: BTW, another option for the long-term solution which we haven't really addressed head-on is that dpkg-buildpackage could detect whether both arch-indep and arch-dep

Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement debian/rules build-arch

2011-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Russ Allbery writes (Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement debian/rules build-arch): Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: BTW, another option for the long-term solution which we haven't really addressed head

Re: draft ballot: please rule on how to implement debian/rules build-arch

2011-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:19:10PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: Maybe we're going to end up with break n% of the archive as the least-hated answer... Well, I was planning on voting break n% of the archive before FD

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Roger, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:02:52AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Steve Langasek | 4) Turn on direct use of 'debian/rules build-arch' on the autobuilders for | all packages in unstable and experimental

Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:41:18AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: If this were to be put to a vote today, I would propose the following ballot options: 1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of 'debian/rules

Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
-arch is not supported, falling back to debian/rules build, without stirring up the old arguments about whether we want to keep Policy 4.9. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Bug#629385: Bug#604397: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2011-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
approach, It is the most error-prone. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Steve Langasek
ok for you to orphan them directly by filing bugs against the 'wnpp' pseudopackage. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Steve Langasek
. For my part, I expect that Alexander's orphaning will be sufficient. He also said that he doesn't use Debian anymore. Now he trolls in debian-russian@ on the subject. If he's abusing the mailing list, you can of course report this to listmas...@lists.debian.org. -- Steve Langasek

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