Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, WTF? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:18:18AM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: Changed-By: Andreas Moog am...@ubuntu.com [...] away (0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload - d/p/01_fix_makefile: $LIBS need to come after $SRC while linking to fix

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Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Marcin Kulisz
On 2013-10-24 22:24:05, James McCoy wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: James wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This falsely implies that sticking with Gnome requires replacing the init system. The only

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:48:03AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I agree with the people who suggest getting rid of the concept of a 'default' desktop but I don't know how practical it is since not all users will be capable of choosing a desktop. So we need to develop some guidance for them. In the

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/24/2013 11:08 PM, Uoti Urpala wrote: Thomas Goirand wrote: We've been reading again and again from systemd supporters that it's modular, and that we can use only a subset of it if we like. Now, we're reading a very different thing: that it's modular *but* we need to re-implement every

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:39:58AM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: Why should I have installed packages I'm not using and I don't want to use? I know it's rhetorical question but not all systems are having enough disk space besides I don't like have packages I'm not using on my systems. So it's

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:47:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:40 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Why force *every* user of the installer to make that choice, when many of them find the very question to be a needless imposition which makes the installer

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:29AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Trying to say [GNOME upstream] continuously try to [...] force their blessings on all users. is just wrong. Nobody is forced to use Gnome. Sorry, I've implicitly meant all _of their_ users. My apologies. I write a

Imminent mass-bug-filing warning for multiarch:same bugs

2013-10-25 Thread Jenny Hopkins
Hullo there, In a multiarch[1] environment, it is possible to install some packages for multiple architectures at the same time. These are marked with a Multi-Arch: same header. Files may be shared between packages with same name and different architecture provided that their contents are equal.

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Andreas Moog
On 25.10.2013 08:23, Rene Engelhard wrote: A NMU for a MINOR bug is NOT something which should be done. I quietly accepted the dbs one, but this is over the line. I can understand your rage, but to be clear: I only submitted the bug and patch, I didn't ask for it to be nmu'ed and was as

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:39:58AM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: This falsely implies that sticking with Gnome requires replacing the init system. The only requirement is that systemd is installed, not that it is used as the init system. That may be the case today, but I personally

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello, On 25 October 2013 07:23, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:18:18AM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: Changed-By: Andreas Moog am...@ubuntu.com [...] away (0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload -

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:46:09AM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: As you can see from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/away/0.9.5+ds-0+nmu1ubuntu1 I did fix it in Ubuntu. Please direct your rage at the person who took the patch, created a false changelog and uploaded it to Debian. This may be

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:33:56PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Seems I misunderstood what logind was about. I thought it would force to use specific Xdm implementations that would support it. So you do confirm that it's not the case, and that we aren't forced into using GDM? Or is it that

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ole Laursen
Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com writes: Pros: * CD#1 will work again without size worries * Smaller, simpler desktop * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) * Does not depend on replacing init Cons: * please fill in here IMHO you forgot the crucial part here - why

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:00 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:47:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:40 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Why force *every* user of the installer to make that choice, when many of them find the very

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi [2013-10-25 10:01]: (...) I know how to make the choice. I don't fucking want to. Unless I'm needing to do a customised install for particular needs, I want Debian to provide me with defaults that just work. I don't care if the default choices are the ones I

Bug#727676: ITP: gitignorer -- A simple utility that aids in the creation of .gitignore files.

2013-10-25 Thread Zach Latta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Zach Latta z...@zachlatta.com * Package name: gitignorer Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Zach Latta z...@zachlatta.com * URL : https://github.com/zachlatta/gitignorer * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/25/2013 07:52 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Debian is the Universal OS, isn't it? Part of being a 'Universal OS' is being useful to as many people as possible, including people who don't know what a desktop is and people who

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/10/13 10:09, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Changed-By: Andreas Moog am...@ubuntu.com ... I sponsored Andreas' patch as NMU, on my own initiative. I don't think it's appropriate to consider a patch in the BTS to be a request for sponsorship. In future please take responsibility for the decision

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:21:15 + (UTC) Ole Laursen o...@hardworking.dk wrote: Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com writes: Pros: * CD#1 will work again without size worries * Smaller, simpler desktop * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) * Does not depend on replacing

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Philip Hands
Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:47:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:40 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Why force *every* user of the installer to make that choice, when many of them find the very question to be a needless

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 24 octobre 2013 à 18:50 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : An even stronger reason to move away from Gnome if the classic mode disappears. That's a set of gnome-shell extensions that reproduce the look feel of GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 classic/fallback mode, not a separate window

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Wookey
+++ Rene Engelhard [2013-10-25 08:23 +0200]: Hi, WTF? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:18:18AM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: Changed-By: Andreas Moog am...@ubuntu.com [...] away (0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload - d/p/01_fix_makefile: $LIBS

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 25 octobre 2013 à 00:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : That may be the case today, but I personally think it's abundantly clear from the current path of Gnome development that sooner or later it's going to have a hard dependency on using systemd. How is that a problem? I mean,

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 12:33 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: The old “classic/fallback” mode has not disappeared, it has been renamed to GNOME Flashback. But it became less and less usable... even in 3.4 now... many minor bugs that have accumulated and which you Debian maintainers probably cannot

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 24 octobre 2013 à 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's change the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org writes: How about renaming CD1 to GNOME CD1 and make the minimal installers prompt which desktop to install? That is no longer having a default desktop. The downside would be that one download link would no longer be enough. By now I no longer think

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 12:34 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: I mean, apart from the pain of seeing a bunch of people who do not understand what systemd is rant about it? Taking out the people just rant and/or don't understand it club simply doesn't help... Debian should continue to offer free

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: Would LXDE still fit on the same CD? I'm guessing yes, but I'd rather have it explicit. Why are we still talking about CDs? Didn't everybody move to DVDs a century ago? People who want to install Debian on old

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 25 octobre 2013 à 12:43 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit : Debian should continue to offer free choice of the init system Why? “Multiple init systems” is not a feature that any of our users should care of. It is not a functional goal. And in reality it seems to be far less

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:43:04PM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Would LXDE still fit on the same CD? I'm guessing yes, but I'd rather have it explicit. Why are we still talking about CDs? Didn't everybody move to DVDs a century ago? And then they moved away from DVDs too. I guess we

Re: away_0.9.5+ds-0+nmu2_multi.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-10-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:32:55AM +0100, Wookey wrote: Really? This is boring stuff that needs doing. I would be grateful if someone did it for me on one of my packages, assuming they didn't break anything. Updating to new upstream versions for tiny packages like this is also boring. You

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com writes: * Does not depend on replacing init Wasn’t there some mention of xfce needing gnome-settings-daemon as well, which would kinda defeat the point? I’d be for IceWM as default setup, as opposed to a full Desktop Environment, and then people can either

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org writes: Debian should continue to offer free choice of the init system Why? “Multiple init systems” is not a feature that any of our users should care of. It is not a functional goal. Of course! • Developers are users, too. • The upstart crowd has got

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 25 October 2013 10:00, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:33:56PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Seems I misunderstood what logind was about. I thought it would force to use specific Xdm implementations that would support it. So you do confirm that it's not the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Wolodja wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 12:48 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Why? “Multiple init systems” is not a feature that any of our users should care of. It is not a functional goal. Well I guess users *do* care... just look at the posts from the last few days. We had users who said stick with sysvinit,

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, * Does not depend on replacing init Wasn’t there some mention of xfce needing gnome-settings-daemon as well, which would kinda defeat the point? Not as far as I can tell: nik@keks:~ $ apt-rdepends xfce4 | grep gnome

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name wrote: Why are we still talking about CDs? Didn't everybody move to DVDs a century ago? And then they moved away from DVDs too. I guess we are talking about install images to download (where you usually don't want to

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:29:34PM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Why are we still talking about CDs? Didn't everybody move to DVDs a century ago? And then they moved away from DVDs too. I guess we are talking about install images to download (where you usually don't want to

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: Wasn’t there some mention of xfce needing gnome-settings-daemon as well, which would kinda defeat the point? Not as far as I can tell: nik@keks:~ $ apt-rdepends xfce4 | grep gnome

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-25, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: What are the reasons exactly for deliberately depriving the default installation’s users of a more complete and featureful desktop? I've said that for years, but we still haven't changed to KDE Plasma Desktop as the default. /troll /Sune

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi writes: I write a backup program. It uses its own storage format, and people sometimes ask if they could use tar files instead. But I am evil incarnate and FORCE them to use my own storage format instead. Should […] can be, and I think that the storage format I've

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/10/13 at 12:33 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 24 octobre 2013 à 18:50 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : An even stronger reason to move away from Gnome if the classic mode disappears. I just wanted to point out that this quote is not mine, but Svante's.

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:52:16AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Simple question: logind is maintained, ConsoleKit is not. I have not seen anyone raise this. Why? That one is easy. Both are written by the same predominantly mayor author and in some ways one project is superset of the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Adam Borowski (2013-10-25 13:42:48) On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: Wasn’t there some mention of xfce needing gnome-settings-daemon as well, which would kinda defeat the point? Not as far as I can tell: nik@keks:~ $ apt-rdepends xfce4 | grep gnome

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Dominik George
xfswitch-plugin - gdm3 - gnome-settings-daemon xfswitch-plugin is suggested by xfce4-goodies, so irrelevant for this discussion. However, I must admit that even if the standard XFCE installation does not depend on systemd, it would be even worse if a user came along and wanted to extend

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk writes: xfswitch-plugin is suggested by xfce4-goodies, so irrelevant for this discussion. Fair enough, but http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/187596 suggests that, given a ConsoleKit removal, xfce still depends on systemd just like GNOME.

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:02:48PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: However, I must admit that even if the standard XFCE installation does not depend on systemd, it would be even worse if a user came along and wanted to extend their user experience by installing some XFCE addon and *that* would

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-25, Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de wrote: However, I must admit that even if the standard XFCE installation does not depend on systemd, it would be even worse if a user came along and wanted to extend their user experience by installing some XFCE addon and *that* would magically

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:40:35PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: So to me the classc/fallback frontier seems to be a rather dark field... it's nice that you guys try to keep it working in Debian, but quite apparently GNOME upstream wants to ultimately get rid of it, and that *will*

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonathan Dowland jmtd at debian.org writes: Installing systemd does not magically switch your init system. Not *yet*. But it will, shortly. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/187556 bye, //mirabilos, explicitly omitting his own guesses on the timeframe -- To

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Dominik George
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:02:48PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: However, I must admit that even if the standard XFCE installation does not depend on systemd, it would be even worse if a user came along and wanted to extend

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/10/13 11:52, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: - using XDG_* environment variables, instead of LOGIND_* or SYSTEMD_* variables I assume you mainly mean XDG_RUNTIME_DIR here, since the rest are basically user-level rather than system-level. The point of the XDG_* family of variables is that

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ole Laursen
Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de writes: • Your primary use case appears to be “the desktop”, whereas Debian, as opposed to some of its downstreams and Pure Blends, is a Universal OS, which means it’s got much more servers in use, which don’t benefit from systemd either at all or at least

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: Would LXDE still fit on the same CD? I'm guessing yes, but I'd rather have it explicit. Why are we still talking about CDs? Didn't everybody move to DVDs a century ago? People who want to

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:41:26 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le jeudi 24 octobre 2013 à 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 25, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: We've had this discussion multiple times over the years. I've been told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. I'm not 100% convinced I can pull random statistics out of my

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: We've had this discussion multiple times over the years. I've been told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. I'm not 100% convinced myself of how large or critical

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-25, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: We've had this discussion multiple times over the years. I've been told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. I'm not 100% convinced myself of how large or critical this

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:34:34 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le vendredi 25 octobre 2013 à 00:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : That may be the case today, but I personally think it's abundantly clear from the current path of Gnome development that sooner or later it's

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 25, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: If someone comes up with good reasons to consider systemd on it's own merit, I'm willing to consider it. With the current approach of a The arguments for a modern init system have been discussed over and over. I do not mind replacing gnome

Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
It is more and more obvious that modern software needs an event-based init system. Pros: - more features - stable support for advanced boot/SAN environments - being more similar to one of the other relevant distributions (RHEL or Ubuntu) - things like gnome become easier to package Cons: -

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 25, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote: • Your primary use case appears to be “the desktop”, whereas Debian, as opposed to some of its downstreams and Pure Blends, is a Universal OS, which means it’s got much more servers in use, which don’t benefit from systemd either at all

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 25, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: Why? “Multiple init systems” is not a feature that any of our users should care of. It is not a functional goal. Well I guess users *do* care... just look at the posts from the last few days. Just because some people have

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thorsten Glaser Jonathan Dowland jmtd at debian.org writes: Installing systemd does not magically switch your init system. Not *yet*. But it will, shortly. No, it won't. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/187556 I'm not saying that in that article. Please

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: We've had this discussion multiple times over the years. I've been told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. The set of hardware which can't boot from DVDs *or* boot

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 25 October 2013 13:13, Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: On 25/10/13 11:52, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: - using XDG_* environment variables, instead of LOGIND_* or SYSTEMD_* variables I assume you mainly mean XDG_RUNTIME_DIR here, since the rest are basically user-level rather than

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Let the war begin... ;) On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 14:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Pros: - stable support for advanced boot/SAN environments How far is this: https://wiki.debian.org/AdvancedStartupShutdownWithMultilayeredBlockDevices really supported now? - things like gnome become easier to

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:29:54 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: It is more and more obvious that modern software needs an event-based init system. Pros: - more features - stable support for advanced boot/SAN environments - being more similar to one of the other relevant

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/10/13 13:57, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: No, I mean: XDG_VTNR=7 XDG_SESSION_ID=c1 XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 XDG_SEAT=seat0 Oh, I wasn't aware of those... yes, using that namespace without a XDG

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:49:54 +0200 Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de wrote: Hi, The only problem is that on small machines (things like the BeagleBone) xz compression requires enough memory that you have to enable swap to use dpkg. Now on a machine with a sensible disk this is not a

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi Steve, thanks for starting this discussion. I was quite intrigued by the responses which challenged whether we need a default at all, but if we accept that a default is required (as you outline and as others have said), I have two separate thoughts to ponder about proceeding:  • we define

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
That looked unintentionally *great* in my mutt, half of it got interpreted and coloured as quotes, giving a chrome feel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:33:42PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that xz compression has become the default in dpkg. With that in mind, won't this issue come up anyway? I mean, once a maintainer fixes a bug in a pckage and uplods it, the

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-25 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/10/25 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:29:54 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: It is more and more obvious that modern software needs an event-based init system. Pros: - more features - stable support for advanced boot/SAN environments - being more

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hi there, Olav, thanks for contributing to the discussion, On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: I don't see this happening, at all. When the GNOME release team is asked for a solution we make *concrete* decisions: use X, or Y or maybe try and support both. If you want

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Sampson
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes: We *could* just drop all the CD sets and be done with it, just keeping the netinst CD and the DVDs. Is that what people really want? As a longtime Debian user, that would suit me fine -- I've not done a Debian installation using anything other than

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ole Laursen olau at hardworking.dk writes: For instance: I have in the past had downtime on servers I maintain because Debian out of the box doesn't babysit processes. Apache or MySQL hit by a random once-in-a-year irreproducible crash? Boom. Hm, fun. I don’t usually run into those, but then

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:23PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: There is no good reason other than that's the way GNOME has been written. So change the code and get GNOME to behave properly. Because you raise this again: - No maintenance on ConsoleKit since 1.5 years, despite me/GNOME raising

Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net writes: Let the war begin... ;) I’m looking for someone to help me formulate a GR (since I know I’m not good in formulating things that don’t offend anyone, and in English) that states that Debian will support several init systems (sysvinit with

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:14:41AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: maintenance. I seriously doubt that us switching away from Gnome will have a detectable negative impact on Gnome's rate of development, so the average quality of our offerings on the desktop, and the quality of that choice for all

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:03:38PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net writes: Let’s GR it. Let's tech committee it :) Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-25 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, October 25, 2013 15:09, Neil Williams wrote: I disagree that this is achievable as a single switch. Backports spring to mind, security updates too will have to retain support for the init system in use in stable currently where that support existed in the package being backported at

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013, at 16:19, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Let’s GR it. Let's tech committee it :) I was just going to say the same. I don't think we need a full GR, let's just shove it to tech-ctte, so they can make an informed decision. We have the Tech CTTE for this type of decisions after

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: This means by adopting logind, we should switch init over to systemd, otherwise a major package is using another major package in an unsupported configuration (or at least in a way that the maintainer doesn't wish to support) No, it doesn’t mean

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: Let’s GR it. Let's tech committee it :) I’d ask them to solve the situation of gnome/xfce depending on systemd, or something like that, but not a decision whether we want to support one or multiple init systems, and if not all currently

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:03:38 + (UTC) Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote: Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net writes: Let the war begin... ;) I’m looking for someone to help me formulate a GR (since I know I’m not good in formulating things that don’t offend anyone,

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:27:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: Let’s GR it. Let's tech committee it :) I’d ask them to solve the situation of gnome/xfce depending on systemd, or something like that, but not a decision whether we want

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013, at 16:27, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: Let’s GR it. Let's tech committee it :) I’d ask them to solve the situation of gnome/xfce depending on systemd, or something like that, but not a decision whether we want to support

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:39:03AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Hi there, Olav, thanks for contributing to the discussion, On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: I don't see this happening, at all. When the GNOME release team is asked for a solution we make

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:11:28PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: It does mean that _installing_ GNOME/systemd needs to switch the init system over. Supporting two different init systems is something I don't think *anyone* wants to get into. Remember they use different files, so this will result

Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrew Kane
From: Andrew Kane ak...@freegeekseattle.org Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:55 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ...I've been told

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Marvin Renich
* Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [131024 15:06]: ]] Marvin Renich I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two in order to force adoption of systemd. You're aware that GNOME and systemd upstreams are two completely distinct groups with (AFAIK) very little

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Uoti Urpala
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: I don't see this happening, at all. When the GNOME release team is asked for a solution we make *concrete* decisions: use X, or Y or maybe try and support both. If you want to influence these decisions, I

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: Decide any technical matter where Developers' jurisdictions overlap. This is more or less a political question (and one of trust and one to FINALLY decide what package maintainers and porters can depend on, so that we can move on). Also, I’d

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Bastien beudart wrote: Let's tech committee it :) It seems that the tech committee is composed of two well known ubuntu developers. Isn't that biased? I mean do you see them voting against upstart, I know that the decision should be based

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:02:55PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: Decide any technical matter where Developers' jurisdictions overlap. This is more or less a political question (and one of trust and one to FINALLY decide what package

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/10/25 Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de: Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org writes: Decide any technical matter where Developers' jurisdictions overlap. This is more or less a political question (and one of trust and one to FINALLY decide what package maintainers and porters can

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