Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen ]] Martin Pitt Tollef Fog Heen [2014-10-21 19:19 +0200]: I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that Steve Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing systemd-shim as the first alternative dependency for

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Russ Allbery Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:19:32PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: An important detail is, that on upgrades, we keep the sysvinit package installed, which ships /lib/sysvinit/init. This makes it very easy to boot using sysvinit, even if systemd is the default /sbin/init. We proposed a patch for

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I would even go so far as to say that it's good that we're exposing these bugs now, during our release preparation process, so that they can be fixed prior to jessie. We need systemd-shim to work properly in jessie if we can

Re: Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on initial install but not upgrade to it are tricky and have a lot of

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson Russ Allbery writes (Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
I think you got bit by the Mail-Followup-To and your messages didn't make it to the CTTE bug. Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Russ Allbery Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Pitt Tollef Fog Heen [2014-10-21 19:19 +0200]: I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that Steve Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing systemd-shim as the first alternative dependency for libpam-systemd makes sense and should

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-23 Thread Cameron Norman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:21:27PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Josh == Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org writes: Josh - It can't check for generated lines for serial consoles or Josh similar; finish-install

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Cameron Norman Please trim bits you're not replying to. El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 10:19 , Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no escribió: ]] Russ Allbery I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that Steve Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I think default is about what we install with fresh installs. That's consistent with the other examples you list, where we've picked a default. I agree. Bdale pgpbspOmI0C3L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes (Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I think default is about what we install with fresh installs. That's consistent with the other examples you list, where we've picked a default. I

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I think it would be helpful to write this up as a resolution. How about: -8- 1. In February the TC decided that the default init system for Linux in Debian jessie would be systemd. We have been asked what this should mean for

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): This implies that we had decided not to change init systems on upgrade. I don't believe that's correct. I didn't express an opinion on it one way or another and intended to leave that

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Tollef Fog Heen claimed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746578#134 that there is consensus on debian-devel in favour of the switch. That was some time ago, and Martin has expressed a different opinion. I think the

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): If you're proposing this as a resolution of #765803, that's fine. I'm not sure I follow. You think it would be proper for the TC to pass a resolution along the lines of the one I

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Ian, On 10/21/2014 05:44 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: I think the principle, of whether this switch should be made automatic, ought to be addressed separately, and should be regarded as a question of overlapping jurisdictions. We can't have different maintainers fighting over init on users'

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:06:31 -0400 Martin Pitt mp...@debian.org wrote: I'll leave this to the Debian maintainers, as I'm mostly responsible for the Ubuntu side, haven't really discussed this with the two Michaels/Tollef/Marco, and I don't feel qualified to speak for the Debian systemd team.

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on initial install but not upgrade to it are tricky and have a lot of corner cases, and you

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the dependencies right to

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes: Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on initial

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: 2. Normally when Debian changes the default provider of some service, this means that new installs get the new provider. We do not transition existing installs to the new provider during upgrades, unless the old provider is

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes (Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: 4. So, if an existing installation has its init system switched, as a result of upgrading or of installing packages, that is a bug

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Cameron Norman
El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 10:19 , Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no escribió: ]] Russ Allbery Hello Russ, CTTE, Hello, systemd maintainers. We (the Technical Committee) have received a request to override a maintainer decision around whether systems are switched from sysvinit to systemd

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:10:10 +1100 Stuart Prescott stu...@debian.org wrote: inittab_unusual_lines=$( grep '^[^#]' /etc/inittab | while read line ; do case $line in 'id:2:initdefault:') ;; [...] I wonder if it would just be easier to look at the md5sum of the

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Russ, Russ Allbery [2014-10-18 20:59 -0700]: When one of you has a chance, could you update this bug with the current thinking around how to handle upgrades I'll leave this to the Debian maintainers, as I'm mostly responsible for the Ubuntu side, haven't really discussed this with the

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Pitt writes (Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?): My personal opinion: Given how close we are to the release and how many regression reports we still get, it seems prudent to not change the currently running init systems for upgrades for

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I don't think the TC decision should be read as mandating that existing installations should be switched when upgrading from wheezy. As I have said, we (Debian) do not usually change the user's existing MTA, cron daemon, webserver, desktop,

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-19 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:59:54 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: When one of you has a chance, could you update this bug with the current thinking around how to handle upgrades, around the ordering of dependencies in libpam-systemd, and some of the other ideas (such as attempting to

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello, systemd maintainers. We (the Technical Committee) have received a request to override a maintainer decision around whether systems are switched from sysvinit to systemd on upgrade. However, it's not clear to me that an actual decision has been made that we would need to override. There