Re: Next CTTE meeting at date -d 'Thu Jan 30 18:00:00 UTC 2014' in #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org

2014-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:35:11AM +, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:59:10PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: The next CTTE meeting is at date -d 'Thu Jan 30 18:00:00 UTC 2014' in #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org FYI, I'm travelling this week and don't believe I'll make it

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

2014-01-30 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Don, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: Do you have an updated patch with this change and a documentation of the tmpfiles.d change? I will draft a resolution shortly to implement this patch, and will open it for discussion. Bastian has uploaded lvm2 2.02.104-1 which contains my patch:

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Given that, your opinions about the quality of GNOME upstream development don't seem relevant to the problem we're trying to resolve. If you don't like the software, don't use it. Unfortunately, it doesn't save us, as the set of

Bug#728486: Draft of Resolution for 728486 (lvm/systemd compatibility)

2014-01-30 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Don Armstrong wrote: Below is the current draft of a resolution to resolve 728486. I have one current comment in the draft which I would like clarified. [CTTE members: please comment/suggest change.] I also expect to change the reference to the patch to a newly updated patch with the changes

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klumpp dixit: 2014-01-30 ChaosEsque Team chaosesquet...@yahoo.com: [bullshit] This was actually *not* bullshit. The delivery of most of the content could use some polishing, but the content is a(n inconvenient) truth. Wasn't there some kind of a ban applied here? Apparently not, but

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:05:05PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: This was actually *not* bullshit. The delivery of most of the content could use some polishing, but the content is a(n inconvenient) truth. Man, if someone was spouting garbage like that in support of systemd, you bet your mksh

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Putting it another way, then, I expect there are some people who will not want systemd on their GNU/Linux systems. I don't think it matters if their reasons are technical, political, irrational fear or personal dislike of the creator; I'd like them to have that choice and for it to work as well

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
I have taken Bdale's text, reformatted it a bit, and added the GR rider and the multiple init systems rider texts. For the GR rider I used the version from my previous standalone proposal. I see Bdale has a different text in git. I'll discuss that in a moment. For the multiple init systems

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (TC resolution revised draft): For the GR rider I used the version from my previous standalone proposal. I see Bdale has a different text in git. I'll discuss that in a moment. I see that Bdale has his own draft in git. The differences are: * My GR rider is different to

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (TC resolution revised draft): I'm going to follow up in a moment with a formal action to propose a resolution, starting the constitutional discussion period. I hereby formally propose what I have called UM (text below). I also hereby formally propose DM as an amendment, but

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/01/14 14:40, Ian Jackson wrote: D DM U UM O OM V VM GR and of course FD I think we can probably leave out one of each of O OM V VM. If anyone has a preference for O and V over OM and VM please say so. Couldn't it bias the outcome if votes might otherwise have been split between O

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Steven Chamberlain writes (Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft): On 30/01/14 14:40, Ian Jackson wrote: D DM U UM O OM V VM GR and of course FD I think we can probably leave out one of each of O OM V VM. If anyone has a preference for O and V over OM and VM please say so.

Bug#727708: Cut-and paste typo

2014-01-30 Thread Svante Signell
I think you made a c-p typo, see below: That will leave us voting on (most likely): Dsystemd default in jessie, say nothing about multiple inits DM systemd default in jessie, support multiple inits Usystemd default in jessie, say nothing about multiple inits

Re: Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-01-30 15:59, Ian Jackson wrote: Our voting system (Condorcet with Schwartz Cloneproof Sequential Dropping) is designed to cope with that. In actual practice I'm expecting to have a single Condorcet winner in which case splitting/joining options is totally irrelevant. I really hope you

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Philipp Kern writes (Re: Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft): So if we assume that upstart wins, would it be acceptable to depend on systemd (or vice versa)? We might then get a set called, say, Unity, depending on upstart and one called, say, GNOME, depending on systemd, which would

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-01-30 Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de: Matthias Klumpp dixit: 2014-01-30 ChaosEsque Team chaosesquet...@yahoo.com: [bullshit] This was actually *not* bullshit. The delivery of most of the content could use some polishing, but the content is a(n inconvenient) truth. Wasn't there some

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klumpp dixit: What would happen if we adopted systemd? The project would lose (a different set of) contributors and users. The OSS ecosystem would lose, vendor-lock-in would ensue in a way even worse than the FSF does, and the remnants of Unix/GNU in Debian would die, to be replaced by

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthias Klumpp writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.): What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? In this hypothetical scenario: It would be fairly easy for a

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Philipp Kern writes (Re: Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft): On 2014-01-30 15:47, Ian Jackson wrote: == optional rider M (Multiple init systems) == Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/01/14 17:01, Thorsten Glaser wrote: And the GNOME/systemd people are invited to make their dream of the FLOS GNOME OS into a Debian derivate or Pure Blend. If the chosen default is something other than systemd, and if the TC resolution does not prevent GNOME having a hard dependency on

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 à 21:38 +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : [Lots of crap] Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve? https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd#sysvinit_.2B-_insserv -- .''`.Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To

Bug#728486: marked as done (Determine how to handle incompatiblity between systemd and lvm2)

2014-01-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:13:16 -0800 with message-id 20140130181316.gi5...@teltox.donarmstrong.com and subject line Re: Bug#728486: Current patch for resolving lvm/systemd compatibility has caused the Debian Bug report #728486, regarding Determine how to handle incompatiblity

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Bastien Beudart
Matthias Klumpp writes (Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.): What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? In this hypothetical scenario: It would be fairly easy for a

Bug#727708: TC Ballot Format

2014-01-30 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Excuse the ignorance if this suggestion winds up being not any different from Ian's current proposal, due to the specifics of the Condorcet method. But in case it is, it strikes me that coupling the multiple vote with the init vote allows for more voting options, and thus the potential for an

Bug#727708: Regarding sysvinit+openrc/insserv

2014-01-30 Thread Svante Signell
Who wrote the parts of sysvinit+openrc and sysvinit+insserv? Maybe that person should modify some of the faulty information for these cases. Some points: sysvinit+insserv/openrc: D-Bus interfaces: Why are they needed, nothing of this is defined by POSIX? And dbus is already heavily depending on

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:47:02PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 à 21:38 +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : [Lots of crap] Nice argumentation, as usual... Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve?

Bug#727708: TC Ballot Format

2014-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jason A. Donenfeld dixit: Question B. Debian will allow alternative, non-default, init systems on Linux: No, as Ian already explained this will not permit people to vote, for example: A with multiple B with multiple B alone NOTA A alone bye, //mirabilos -- diogenese Beware of ritual lest

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
We had a good drafting session on IRC. Here are the results. I hereby propose (and propose and do not accept amendments as necessary), so as to provide the following options: DT systemd default in jessie, requiring specific init is allowed DL systemd default in jessie, requiring specific

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com writes: I just wonder why nobody from tect-ctte take care about the exact specification of that bare minimum (or, in other words, what exactly is wrong with sysvinit). In a sense, we all have done this, even if you don't see it explicitly written in

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: GNOME upstream won't really change Why? There are non-Linux GNOME users, for example. If the GNOME developers don't care even about such popular

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: What would be the effecr if we decided to drop GNOME, because it depends on systemd? In this hypothetical scenario: It would be fairly easy for a downstream of Debian to mandate systemd for their users, and provide Gnome. It would not

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Josh Triplett
A couple of comments inline below. Ian Jackson wrote: == dependencies rider version T (Tight coupling) == This decision is limited to selecting a default initsystem; we continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems. Software may require a specific init system

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Josh Triplett wrote: Ian Jackson wrote: Software outside of an init system's implementation may not require a specific init system to be pid 1, although degraded operation is tolerable. For instance, consider a gnome-session-systemd package which uses

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi! Apologies for jumping into the discussion even though I'm not a Debian Developer. == dependencies rider version L (Loose coupling) == This decision is limited to selecting a default initsystem; we continue to welcome contributions of support for all init systems.

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Keith Packard
Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com writes: Are X-people indeed sacrifice portability, or there is something different (e.g. these dependencies are optional)? Speaking as the X server release manager, the systemd patches exist solely to provide for interoperation with systemd or other

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Keith Packard
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ian, Bdale, Andy, Don and Russ agreed on IRC that this was a good ballot. Steve, Colin, Keith: let us know, and perhaps we can start the vote sooner. I can vote with this ballot. Sorry I had to disappear in the middle of the meeting; that

Re: Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
Petr Baudis pa...@ucw.cz writes: Would such a particular example of (greatly, but not fatally) degraded operation fall within the intent of this proposal? I think so, yes. I do think forcing users who've made a conscious decision to live this way to click through a warning pop-up on each

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-01-31 Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com: Sergey B Kirpichev skirpic...@gmail.com writes: [...] Where is the list of problems for sysvinit we intend to solve? For X, the problem is running X as a user other than root, which should provide for increased system security as we'll be reducing

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal - Don't like software, don't use it. Absolutely.

2014-01-30 Thread Keith Packard
Matthias Klumpp matth...@tenstral.net writes: Of course it does not exclude implementing that stuff in a different, non-systemd tool, but to my knowledge nobody has done that yet. Exactly so. I have ideas on how this might work in a simpler and more general fashion, but people rarely listen to