Bug#727708: requirement of non-forking startup protocol

2014-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes: Yeah, this is a good point. Since systemd uses the daemon-written PID file for tracking forking daemons, it doesn't have the same issues as the upstart expect fork or expect daemon protocols. Obviously, an external

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 at 16:45:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: The second supported option is DAEMON_OPTS, which sets additional flags to add to the process. For as long as we need to support multiple init systems, this option needs to stay in /etc/default

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision): These requirements, on the other hand, I find completely baffling. This approach seems completely contrary to Debian best practices. Our standard practice with all

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
possible approach would be to just define them all to -ENOSYS, since they generally wouldn't be called when sd_listen_fds isn't available, although that would be a problem if any package ever used those APIs outside of a systemd context. (But I'm not sure why one would do that.) -- Russ Allbery (r

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
goal truly both warrants it and requires it, and with the full understanding that this will often mean that the current maintainers will step down and someone else will need to do the actual work. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
an environment variable, though, as long as it's unset afterwards so that it's not inherited by children. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#727708: systemd and support for other distros

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:48:52PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I have never seen a gratuitous incompatibility caused by this. Do you have any examples? I would argue that every single result returned by 'ls -l /usr/sbin/ /usr/bin|grep /bin

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: * Red Hat adopted upstart but never did a wholescale conversion, and then abandoned upstart in favor of systemd. Obviously, one should not put too much weight on this; Red Hat is a commercial company that has a wealth of reasons for its actions

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
systems I considered. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878uv2uqff

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision): 6. Debian's non-Linux ports should either use the same init system as Debian's Linux ports or agree on an init system that they're both going to use. The porting

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion): First, other choices besides systemd and upstart. I agree with your comments here; it appears you've investigated OpenRC in more detail than I have but I'm happy

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
asked to consider. But I think we should be mindful of the restriction on the TC not doing design work and let Policy for packaging support of upstart and/or systemd be hashed out through the regular Policy process. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878uv2t3o5@windlord.stanford.edu

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Russ Allbery Given that, I don't believe a Technical Committee choice of a default init system is going to make either the systemd or the upstart maintainers want to stop maintaining their packages. Given what you're basically deciding between

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
, sysvinit is capable of most of what the typical user needs); there isn't the same driving force of user preference that leads users to switch between desktop environments, and quite a bit more integration support is required for the init system. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
if they want GNOME to continue working. I don't see what you're saying here as substantively different than what I said in my writeup about the ecosystem. I feel like we're both presenting the same facts through different lenses. On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:56:33AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: One can

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: I believe that we have enough information to make an informed choice already, and that the sides are fairly well-defined and hardened in their opinions. That means that this dispute falls under

Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
to Hurd and kFreeBSD. As I mentioned but probably not explicitly enough, the existence of those ports would, for me, turn the whole second part of my analysis into a dead heat between systemd and upstart as opposed to a general advantage for upstart in terms of ecosystem integration. -- Russ

Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
still think it's less likely to be done by accident) that waits for the network to be configured, but implements a timeout to ensure that you don't stall forever. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ

Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
services binding to particular configured IP addresses to use IP_FREEBIND because IPv6 network setup can take an unpredictable amount of time. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
because I didn't have that setting. I can confirm that adding Requires= now does the right thing: if the socket is explicitly stopped, the service is stopped as well, and if the service is then started, the socket is also started first. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
would always start the service without a socket otherwise. Yes, that matches my experience. Adding Requires= fixed that case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Russ Allbery It would, however, be nice if this were more clearly stated, since the guidance to the author of the unit file about what dependencies one should or should not explicitly add is a bit sparse. In particular, I wonder

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
took). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r48vnqql@windlord.stanford.edu

Bug#733452: init system daemon readiness protocol

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
or both of the synchronization protocols. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

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

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
instead of init-system-helpers. It's worth noting that the systemd support in update-rc.d is substantially better than the upstart support. (There's more about this in my other message that's being temporarily blocked.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

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

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: For comparison purposes, the *total* burden, from my upstream perspective, of the two options was: * systemd: 14 lines (8 lines of code, 6 lines of build system) * upstart: 12 lines (6 lines of code, 6 lines of documentation) Since upstart

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
(-R), set the desired flags # in DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/default/lbcd. exec /usr/sbin/lbcd -f -l -Z $DAEMON_OPTS This seems to work and is what I will be uploading. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
systemd[1]: Starting responder for load balancing... Dec 28 17:18:11 wanderer lbcd[3465]: ready to accept requests Dec 28 17:18:11 wanderer lbcd[3465]: request from ::1 (version 3) Dec 28 17:18:11 wanderer systemd[1]: Started responder for load balancing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Bug#727708: upstart and upgrading from sysvinit scripts

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I have now uploaded lbcd 3.5.0-1 to the archive. And now lbcd 3.5.0-2, because I completely forgot to add the stanzas to the systemd unit and upstart configuration file to run lbcd as a non-root user. Whoops. (And, of course, I noticed one more problem

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

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
starting a service. I ran into several things with both upstart and systemd that would need Policy documentation to ensure that we did them consistently. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
about both be objections to fundamental design decisions and places where upstream felt that implementing his approach would make the system more fragile. In one case, I agree with them. Rejecting such requests does not make for a bad upstream. I would argue that's upstream's job. -- Russ

Bug#727708: socket activation in upstart and systemd

2013-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
in Debian. systemd's support looks ready for widespread production use right now. I intend to configure my package in the next upload to use socket activation with systemd if available. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
, MANGLE_GLOB = 1 }; and then at the call site: n = unit_name_mangle(e, MANGLE_NOGLOB); which makes the meaning of that argument immediately obvious. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ

Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8738lkwt41@windlord.stanford.edu

Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
dpkg perhaps? I would hold off until we decide which init system we're going with, and I'm not sure where this belongs. It may make more sense to put it into dh-systemd and/or dh_installinit. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Russ Allbery It looks like both upstart and systemd don't provide direct mechanisms to manage all instances. The upstart cookbook recommends getting a list of all active services and extracting the list of instances of a particular service from

Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
configuration (which is quite nice to do, since it isolates Java applications that may require different override JARs), you want to restart all of them when you upgrade the packaged Tomcat. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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

2013-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
, but it's possible to find bugs in just about anything. Updating numerous copies of that code is not appealing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

2013-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
. Good point. Anything that's using socket activation probably doesn't really need additional synchronization. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

2013-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth a...@ayous.org writes: * Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [131219 04:09]: Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: systemd supports the non-forking daemon too. Only, instead of raise(SIGSTOP) the daemon has to fetch an AF_UNIX socket name from an environment variable

Bug#727708: upstart upstream maintenance practices

2013-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
as upstream for my Debian packages and try fairly hard to embed everything into the upstream release with necessary conditionals where needed, but that's just a philosophical approach and neither approach is inherently superior. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

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

2013-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes: I'd like to see both of them support systemd's method, since it's extensible and provides more general functionality. I think the benefit of support for SIGSTOP is marginal; adding sd_notify calls is not that much

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

2013-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txe3hyqp@windlord.stanford.edu

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

2013-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
that it's ready, so this is only an issue if you try to attach during the early startup stage. That's not an entirely impossible situation, but less likely and not one of the cases where I've done this as an administrator before. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

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

2013-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
versions for backwards-compatibility reasons. This is not difficult to handle at the packaging layer if we need to do it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes: * Lots of really interesting defense-in-depth security features. I particularly liked ReadWriteDirectories, ReadOnlyDirectories, InaccessibleDirectories, PrivateNetwork, and NoNewPrivileges, which provide a sort

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

2013-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
kdbus in this; if it's included in the kernel, I highly doubt Debian will refuse to use it in the long run) are pretty much the same components that people are concerned about being unstable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2013-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
will be managed given the event-driven kernel, and how proper daemon management at least at the level common to upstart, systemd, and OpenRC will be added. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian

2013-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
, it would just stop itself and never start again. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian

2013-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
the process would have already been reparented by init before the SIGSTOP signal is sent. So it does rely on the special properties of PID 1, namely its adoption of all processes that have abandoned their parent process. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

2013-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
, PrivateNetwork, and NoNewPrivileges, which provide a sort of lightweight process containment that would be much easier to use than a full-blown chroot, and in some ways more powerful. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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

2013-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
understand the plumbing of this stuff well enough to know where the dependencies could surface. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2013-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
is not going to accept new systemd versions from that point on, so systemd should only support a kernel that's 3 years old. Right, exactly. It's a real concern, but we should be clear about what our time horizon of concern is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

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

2013-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
is the former udev problems on steroids. I see no evidence to support this contention apart from a bunch of speculation on your part about what *might* happen four years in the future if particular features missed a release window. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

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

2013-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
position. I hope we don't need to do that, but sometimes when enough of the rest of the world disagrees with you, you need to move on. +1 to all of this. Sam expresses here roughly what I've been trying to express, but much better than I have managed to express it. -- Russ Allbery (r

Bug#727708: systemd code documentation

2013-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
quite good. This is more the code-level, helping the programmer sort of documentation, which is a bit lower-level. Both upstart and systemd seem to have excellent manuals and high-level design and interface documentation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#727708: systemd code documentation

2013-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
of a nicely-written and readable code base, although that's partly because much of it is written the way I would have written that code. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#727708: systemd and support for other distros

2013-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:24:41AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: They're fairly trivial ones, though, no? Maintaining a local patch to change the paths in a systemd unit is certainly way less effort than maintaining the whole unit. It's akin to changing

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs

2013-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
to have to deal with those components *anyway*. Choosing a different init system than systemd is not going to let us ignore logind, since it's going to be a required component for a modern desktop. (Although it would still be good to know if this is the case.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

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

2013-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
. And it sounds like that's what you're saying can happen. I'm trying to feel out how plausible that outcome is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#727708: systemd code documentation

2013-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
. (I've probably read too much Knuth, although I don't think Knuth's method of doing this worked.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs

2013-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
that we're having, at least in the comparison between systemd and upstart's init components. The question is more whether there are sufficient resources in the upstart community that such development is likely. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian CTTE Meeting tomorrow [date -d 'Thu Nov 22 18:00:00 GMT 2013']

2013-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: Just a reminder that there is a Debian CTTE IRC meeting on #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org tomorrow (date -d 'Thu Nov 22 18:00:00 GMT 2013'). I don't think that's the correct date. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Picking a new member - process [and 1 more messages]

2013-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
on everyone nominated would be more ideal for openness and for public feedback, but also riskier, and possibly uncomfortable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
put forward lots of names -- right now, I feel like that would be undermining a process that we sort of agreed on, and I don't want to do that without conensus. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ

Re: Picking a new member - process

2013-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: So, I think it's safe to say that this process has, so far, not worked. Only two candidates have been put forward, one by Ian and one by myself. Why do you equate this to not working? The candidate I intend to rank

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
, or do you expect to add more substantial points - the status of their rebuttals: subject of course, to any future changes by the other camps, how close are you to having what you consider a good answer to the other camps' points ? I think this would still be a good idea. -- Russ

Re: New member for the Technical Committee - formal proposal

2013-11-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes: Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: 3. We propose to the DPL that Keith Packard should be appointed to the TC. (Constitution 6.2(2)) 4. We propose to the DPL that Philipp Kern should

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

2013-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org writes: On Wed, November 6, 2013 01:16, Russ Allbery wrote: We'll want to look at both sides of that question, and try to understand how much work like that is potentially on the horizon with the various choices. Do you? In the past Debian has not shied away

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

2013-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
we're looking at in any given case is largely determined by whether there *are* any other implementations of that particular service. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2013-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
systemd as a project contains considerably more subsystems than upstart or OpenRC do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2013-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
you're concerned, but I just don't see this as critical compared to other issues under discussion. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#727708: Value of reading other's position statements

2013-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
, but that doesn't help if the problem you're trying to get a system call trace for is during the daemon startup. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
3. Give all of the position drafters an opportunity to further revise their positions based on feedback from that discussion 4. Have a vote based on those final position papers -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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

2013-10-31 Thread Russ Allbery
that upstart lets me inline trivial shell fragments without worrying about that while still keeping them readable. I personally don't find any of your other arguments persuasive (maybe I'm too used to writing portable /bin/sh scripts), but I do see where you're coming from. -- Russ Allbery (r

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

2013-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu writes: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, I've said this before, but I think it's worth reiterating. Either upstart or systemd configurations are *radically better* than init scripts on basically every axis. They're more robust

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

2013-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu writes: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:18:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I suspect you and I have a root disagreement over the utility of exposing some of those degrees of freedom to every init script author, but if you have some more specific examples of policy

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

2013-10-29 Thread Russ Allbery
), or there needs to be some sort of plan for how equivalent functionality to systemd will be provided. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2013-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
of init scripts is not the whole point, but it's a huge part of it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#727708: FYI: upstream’s take

2013-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
if there are plans that Lennart isn't aware of for how that functionality will be provided. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2013-10-26 Thread Russ Allbery
that's the eventual project direction or not as soon as possible so that I have as much time as possible to decide on my next steps. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: The next Debian CTTE Meeting is Today/Tomorrow [date -d 'Thu Jul 25 17:00:00 GMT 2013']

2013-07-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: The next Debian CTTE meeting will be in #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org (OFTC) at date -d 'Thu Jul 25 17:00:00 GMT 2013' I sadly won't be able to make it. I have work emergencies. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#671364: Please decide on dma maintenance

2013-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
to help with dma, This might be a good opportunity to take a few things off your plate (and get rid of some of the psychic weight that I know comes with having lots of things pending that you don't have time to work on). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Next CTTE IRC Meeting Tomorrow at date -d 'Thu May 30 17:00:00 GMT 2013'

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4gp4l7l@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: About installation dvd's

2013-05-09 Thread Russ Allbery
. This is an internal governance group for project technical decisions. I believe the best place to send your question would be to debian-u...@lists.debian.org, which is intended for questions about using (including installing) Debian. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: FTP masters willingly blocking OpenStack nova 2013.1 just right before the OpenStack summit

2013-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
policy that makes each individual packager unhappy. (And which prompts arguments that *their* individual package won't cause an *immediate* problem, which have indeed predictably been raised in every discussion I've seen of this particular problem.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: FTP masters willingly blocking OpenStack nova 2013.1 just right before the OpenStack summit

2013-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
). I am on the side of Russ Allbery here. Ideally, as a developer, I shouldn't have to worry about this, too much, and here is IMHO too much. The infrastructure problems which Debian runs into shouldn't clash with the convenience users either, to the point where Debian would be a very special

Re: FTP masters willingly blocking OpenStack nova 2013.1 just right before the OpenStack summit

2013-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
have been rejected for the same reason in the past. This has always felt to me like a technical flaw -- it would be nice to make adding new packages cheap and find some way of not worrying so much about metadata bloat -- but I have no technical solution. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: Bug#698556: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
the maintainer uploads an revert faster. 3. Asks the release team to allow the fixed package to move to testing for the next stable release. Calling for Votes on this resolution (as A) and the default resolution (further discussion as F). I vote A F. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: Next CTTE Meeting is date -d 'Thu Feb 28 2013 18:00 +0000' in #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org

2013-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: Just a reminder that the next CTTE meeting is at date -d 'Thu Feb 28 2013 18:00 +' in #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org I unfortunately won't be able to make it. I have a work meeting that conflicts. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Bug#698556: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

2013-02-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth a...@ayous.org writes: Drafting a resolution on this: [...] Comments? Yup, looks right to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#700759: Shared library policy on private libs

2013-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
discuss this over on the Policy list, I suppose. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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

2013-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
packages. If such breakage is necessary to move forward, it should only occur after obtaining rough consensus amongst the relevant contributors or the project as a whole. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ pgpYPENixMTK2.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2013-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: How about this for a disposal: Works for me. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
know how to do better and get releases out faster because there's a truly intimidating amount of work that has to get done to do the release and all the alternatives seem to make the work even worse. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

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

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
be great, but it's a hard problem, and there's no way that we're going to come up with a solution to it right now in the middle of the wheezy freeze. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

2012-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
think we actually do require that in some cases. OpenSSH, the X server, and GDM come immediately to mind. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2012-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: I'd like to call for votes to resolve #688772 with the following options, with F as further discussion. Both options A and B require a 3:1 majority, as they overrule the gnome maintainers; Option C does not. I vote CBFA. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Bug#688772: Current options for resolving 688772 [Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome]

2012-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
consequences for not getting that fix done in time that I'm not comfortable with. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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