Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): I do think there is still something for the TC to do here. As Andi writes, the TC failed to clarify that we expect people to continue to support multiple init systems. Evidently this was a mistake. It

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-22 Thread Josh Triplett
Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): I do think there is still something for the TC to do here. As Andi writes, the TC failed to clarify that we expect people to continue to support multiple init systems. Evidently

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
Cameron Norman camerontnor...@gmail.com writes: From your other message I was under the impression that you thought it was ok to remove Upstart support, but now you agree that if there was interest, then it should be kept (as long as it does not cause issues). Under the circumstances, I

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/06/2014 11:11 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: For instance, to date, we still don't have a newer syslinux in unstable while he was eager to push syslinux 5 in unstable during the former freeze 1. syslinux 6 prior 6.02 was not usable because the efi things caused regressions in the non-efi

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Baumann writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): 1. syslinux [etc.] lxc [etc] Daniel, I appreciate that you feel the need to rebut the criticisms that have been made of you. I don't think that's unreasonable. But, I think we should draw a line under

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Le 2014-05-06 13:06, Thomas Goirand a écrit : I believe he is unfriendly with unfriendly people, and I don't think you count as one of his friend, given the way you've interacted with him in the past. Well, Raphael is not Daniel's friend... fine. But, actually, who cares? The maintainer

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Mehdi Dogguy writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): Well, Raphael is not Daniel's friend... fine. But, actually, who cares? The maintainer should go over those details and simply does his job. What raphael is trying to explain is that he failed in his

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
Thanks Ian, this is exactly what I think as well, and you expressed it a way better than I would have. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Can we stop the general commentary on Daniel Baumann's performance as maintainer ? I don't think it's helpful or relevant to the discussion about tftp-hpa and upstart. Is there still anything left to discuss on tftp-hpa/upstart or could

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): Is there still anything left to discuss on tftp-hpa/upstart or could this issue be closed? The last upload restored support for upstart[1]. [1]

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I do think there is still something for the TC to do here. As Andi writes, the TC failed to clarify that we expect people to continue to support multiple init systems. Evidently this was a mistake. On what grounds do you think it was a

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Paul Hedderly
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:15:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ansgar Burchardt writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): Is there still anything left to discuss on tftp-hpa/upstart or could this issue be closed? The last upload restored support for

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 05/06/14 23:15, Ian Jackson wrote: For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support the multiple available init systems in Debian. That includes merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing support without a compelling reason. Considering: - The technical

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Faidon Liambotis parav...@debian.org writes: I haven't gotten any such bug reports, so this is still theoretical, but I think I'd simply reject anything more complicated than simply adding a debian/foo.upstart file to the tree, including adding (and maintaining) hacks or modifying existing

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Cameron Norman
El Tue, 6 de May 2014 a las 7:54 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org escribió: Faidon Liambotis parav...@debian.org writes: I haven't gotten any such bug reports, so this is still theoretical, but I think I'd simply reject anything more complicated than simply adding a debian/foo.upstart file

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): On what grounds do you think it was a mistake? As soon as someone talked to the maintainer in question and asked them to re-add support, support was

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I can see your point that the future of upstart is possibly unclear, but my feeling is that if anyone filed a bug against a package requesting upstart support, that's sufficient indication of interest to merge upstart support patches, including this sort

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Cameron Norman
El Tue, 6 de May 2014 a las 8:41 PM, Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com escribió: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I can see your point that the future of upstart is possibly unclear, but my feeling is that if anyone filed a bug against a package requesting upstart support, that's sufficient

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Steve, first of all: why haven't you just talked to me? you know more then well that i've kindly and quickly responded to all your bug reports, on and offline. #746715 sounds like shooting with a nuclear weapon on little glitch. seccond, if you feel that deeply about that particular patch[1] and

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bdale Garbee (bd...@gag.com) [140503 01:54]: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Package: tech-ctte An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my attention: tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low * Removing upstart hacks, they are

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com (2014-05-02): However, since this is in experimental, and not in a released tree or release candidate, this particular case is hard for me to get worked up about. http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tftp-hpa.html has the timeline for the last few dozens uploads. Last

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk: I have CC'd the packages@address for the package. jftr, you haven't (tftpa-...@packages.debian.org != tftp-...@packages.debian.org). but i have seen the bug by chance today when checking the ctte mailing list in my inbox, so i guess no harm done/time

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/03/2014 10:05 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: if we think about overruling him, there might be better uses for. such as? i'm not aware of anything that would displease you in my packages, let alone anything that would require to 'overrule' me. in the absence of any bug report from you against

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 3 May 2014 09:31, Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net wrote: Steve, first of all: why haven't you just talked to me? you know more then well that i've kindly and quickly responded to all your bug reports, on and offline. #746715 sounds like shooting with a nuclear

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 03 mai 2014 à 10:31 +0200, Daniel Baumann a écrit : first of all: why haven't you just talked to me? you know more then well that i've kindly and quickly responded to all your bug reports, on and offline. #746715 sounds like shooting with a nuclear weapon on little glitch. Wild

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: tech-ctte An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my attention: tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low * Removing upstart hacks, they are ugly and upstart is dead now. Since various members of the Technical Committee argued that choosing a

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my attention: tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low * Removing upstart hacks, they are ugly and upstart is dead now. Since various members of the Technical

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my attention: tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low * Removing upstart

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (2014-05-02): (It appears that archive.debian.org doesn't keep snapshots of experimental so it isn't easy to see exactly what was done.) You probably want: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/tftp-hpa/ Packages are easily downloaded this way:

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Cameron Norman
El Fri, 2 de May 2014 a las 3:01 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk escribió: Russ Allbery writes (Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems): Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Package: tech-ctte An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my attention: tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low * Removing upstart hacks, they are ugly and upstart is dead now. Since various members of

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:50:51PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Package: tech-ctte An Ubuntu developer just brought the following Debian changelog entry to my attention: tftp-hpa (5.2-17) experimental; urgency=low * Removing upstart