Re: mass hosting + cgi [WAS: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution]

2014-12-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 03:47 +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > No, it's not, and it's pretty cheap, if done right. Yes it definitely is, because simply by having gazillions of different users on the same host, you increase the chance that someone is doing something stupid, which can

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes: > What about the enforced replace on dist-upgrade, which at least produces > lots of extra work and can easily cause systems being unbootable ? It's an urban legend that people are getting all upset about even though it's not actually true? Right now,

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 25.11.2014 16:29, Philip Hands wrote: > How is it that Debian changing the default for something on some of What about the enforced replace on dist-upgrade, which at least produces lots of extra work and can easily cause systems being unbootable ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +4

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-05 Thread Roland Mas
Marco d'Itri, 2014-12-04 23:58:58 +0100 : > On Dec 04, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > >> > While using many more times the resources. You obviously have no idea of >> > the challenges of providing secure web hosting for non-trivial >> > quantities of web sites. >> So what do you want to impl

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult said: > On 25.11.2014 18:30, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Excellent. I'm sure that if they can create a deb, they can install > > sysvinit, or runit, or some BSD, or whatever else they want. A default > > is only a default, after all. >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes: > Same for me. If there really is some functionality which some DEs really > need, why not having an entirely separate tool for that ? > Anyways, I still didn't understand why udev is bundled within systemd. And I don't understand why you think your pe

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 03:58:53AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 25.11.2014 18:30, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Excellent. I'm sure that if they can create a deb, they can install > > sysvinit, or runit, or some BSD, or whatever else they want. A default > > is only a default

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 05:02:27AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 27.11.2014 11:53, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > Yes, the logind-related parte _could_ be provided elsewhere, but part of > > the features logind needs is already implemented in systemd. > > Can you understand

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Nikolaus Rath
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes: > On 27.11.2014 00:29, Noel Torres wrote: > >> manpower required to maintain a distribution with more than one init >> system widey installed, manpower to perform the required changes to >> support multiple init systems in Jessie, centered about the most

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 27.11.2014 11:53, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Yes, the logind-related parte _could_ be provided elsewhere, but part of > the features logind needs is already implemented in systemd. Can you understand, that this method is exactly one of the major reason why many people dont like the systemd fac

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 27.11.2014 11:18, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces >> that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to >> provide a modern init system. > > I still wonder why there are provided within systemd then. Same for m

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 27.11.2014 00:29, Noel Torres wrote: > manpower required to maintain a distribution with more than one init > system widey installed, manpower to perform the required changes to > support multiple init systems in Jessie, centered about the most > important question: our users. Just curious: ho

Re: gnome depending on apache [WAS: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution]

2014-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Is this an purely optional program, or does gnome itself depend on it ? Please review the dependencies of the gnome metapackage. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 25.11.2014 18:30, Stephen Gran wrote: > Excellent. I'm sure that if they can create a deb, they can install > sysvinit, or runit, or some BSD, or whatever else they want. A default > is only a default, after all. Just curious about the term "default": Can I still install a system w/o system

mass hosting + cgi [WAS: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution]

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 04.12.2014 22:23, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Apart from that, when you speak of "non-trivial" quantities - I'd > probably say that running gazillion websites from different entities on > one host is generally a really bad idea. No, it's not, and it's pretty cheap, if done right. Severa

gnome depending on apache [WAS: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution]

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 02.12.2014 06:01, Paul Wise wrote: >> gnome depends on apache ? > > gnome-user-share uses apache2 to share files on the local network via WebDAV. Is this an purely optional program, or does gnome itself depend on it ? >> seriously ? > > Sharing files with other computers on the local networ

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 21:14 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> FastCGI is another thing that almost nobody can afford when hosting a >> significant number of web sites. > Why not? > When I've investigated in mod-php vs. cgi vs. fcgi, the fcgi turned out > to have

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:23:15 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >Apart from that, when you speak of "non-trivial" quantities - I'd >probably say that running gazillion websites from different entities on >one host is generally a really bad idea. Gazillions of websites are served from such set

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 04, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > While using many more times the resources. You obviously have no idea of > > the challenges of providing secure web hosting for non-trivial > > quantities of web sites. > So what do you want to imply would be secure? The point is not just "secure",

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 21:14 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > While using many more times the resources. You obviously have no idea of > the challenges of providing secure web hosting for non-trivial > quantities of web sites. So what do you want to imply would be secure? Apart from that, when you s

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 17:03 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > If you can run a CGI inside a chroot/container/whatever, you can run a > small web server on a local port / Unix socket, and reverse-proxy it, > just as easily. Well that's probably roughly the same, although I'd still feel better if web

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marco d'Itri: > On Dec 04, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > If you can run a CGI inside a chroot/container/whatever, you can run a > > small web server on a local port / Unix socket, and reverse-proxy it, > > just as easily. > While using many more times the resources. Which "many more" are yo

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 04, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > If you can run a CGI inside a chroot/container/whatever, you can run a > small web server on a local port / Unix socket, and reverse-proxy it, > just as easily. While using many more times the resources. You obviously have no idea of the challenges of providi

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Christoph Anton Mitterer: > For many things, CGI is actually the only way to run them securely, > since it's the only way to run foreign processes in a container > environment (chroots, etc.) or with user privilege separation. ? If you can run a CGI inside a chroot/container/whatever, you ca

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 28.11.2014 19:09, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > For many things, CGI is actually the only way to run them securely, > since it's the only way to run foreign processes in a container > environment (chroots, etc.) or with user privilege separation. Not entirely true. About a decade ago, I've

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 29.11.2014 20:45, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > As for Systemd being the default (on Debian GNU/Linux, > specifically), – I guess I shouldn’t bother. GNOME is also the > default, but I cannot readily recall ever having it running on > my Debian installs. > By the way: didn't

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 29.11.2014 20:43, Svante Signell wrote: > The best for kFreeBSD and Hurd would be to abandoning the Debian ship. > It is sinking :( (just let the devuan people get things in order first) Well, I'll also put my projecsts on getting rid of polkit into that direction. Why ? Because I've got the i

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > On 27.11.2014 02:18, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> gnome Depends: gnome-core, which Depends: gnome-user-share, which >> Depends: apache2-bin (or apache2.2-bin in stable, which is a >> transitional package depending on apache2-bin in unstable). >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 27.11.2014 02:18, Josh Triplett wrote: > gnome Depends: gnome-core, which Depends: gnome-user-share, which > Depends: apache2-bin (or apache2.2-bin in stable, which is a > transitional package depending on apache2-bin in unstable). gnome depends on apache ? seriously ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt,

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Noel Torres wrote: > Contributing code is not the only way to contribute to Debian. At least to the > Debian I love. Please come out of the developer shell. Translators, e.g. are a > very important part of the project, even if they have not been give the same > voti

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Noel Torres
On Sunday, 30 de November de 2014 18:05:54 Neil Williams escribió: [...] > Contribute code or stop wasting everyone's time on the mailing lists. Contributing code is not the only way to contribute to Debian. At least to the Debian I love. Please come out of the developer shell. Translators, e.g.

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > > Axel Wagner > *plonk* There have been much worse emails here than calling somebody a troll for intentionally posting misleading information. If it quacks like a duck, and all that. The only other reason for you to plonk Axel I could find (after reading the last couple o

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Axel Wagner wrote: […] > Axel Wagner *plonk* Congrats, you’re the second person, after Josselin. (No, this eMail was not the only one, just the one to trigger overflow.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > The best for kFreeBSD and Hurd would be to abandoning the Debian ship. No. > It is sinking It has sunk, but not gone underwater yet completely. > (just let the devuan people get things in order first) And can you *please* *stop* the devuan trolling

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:40:50PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Hey, there are *still* bugs found because of s390 (not s390x). > > Uhm. s390x is 64bit BE; ppc64 and sparc64 never made it into the archive. Sure, but I was thinking of other issues, l

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 30. November 2014, 21:54:09 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 19:59 +0100, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > You complain about people blaming Debian, or more exactly Debian technical > > committee and GR decisions, for their decision to leave. Yes, it is > > any

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 19:59 +0100, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > You complain about people blaming Debian, or more exactly Debian technical > committee and GR decisions, for their decision to leave. Yes, it is anyone´s > decision to leave. No one to blame for it. > > But that also work

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 30. November 2014, 18:05:54 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:59:06 + > > Noel Torres wrote: […] > Debian: > > If you want to help our users, you > > can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages in > > Debian. But spreading your bitterness on develo

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:59:06 + Noel Torres wrote: > On Friday, 28 de November de 2014 07:45:29 Josselin Mouette escribió: > [...] > > This is nothing short of bullying. If you want to help our users, > > you can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages > > in Debian. But spr

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-30 Thread Noel Torres
On Friday, 28 de November de 2014 07:45:29 Josselin Mouette escribió: [...] > This is nothing short of bullying. If you want to help our users, you > can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages in > Debian. But spreading your bitterness on development forums is only > about hurti

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 29 novembre 2014 à 16:37 +, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > […] > > > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > > that could be provided elsewhere. > > Is that “use” as in “if available” or is that actually “require

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:33:44PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: […] >>> The second part, making systemd portable, has already been widely >>> discussed. There are significant technical reasons why systemd

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Axel Wagner
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Oh, holy… this… isn´t… true? Is it? No, it isn't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87iohxzsnc.fsf@rincewind.i-did-not-se

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 20:30:07 schrieb Svante Signell: > On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski- Szmek: > > New

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:30:07PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew > > > Jędrzejewski-Szmek: >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Svante Signell writes: > Have you seen this? > http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2014-11.html#e2014-11-23T09_26_01.txt I started reading and I just had to stop after the first few sentences, where the author quotes the specification clearly out of context to imply a cont

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:27 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:33:44PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > > > […] > > > > > The second part, making systemd portable, has already been widely > > > discussed. There ar

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > New dbus client library is also slated to become > public when its ready an

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 06:33:44PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > […] > > > The second part, making systemd portable, has already been widely > > discussed. There are significant technical reasons why systemd is > > Linux only. And the potential "

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: […] > The second part, making systemd portable, has already been widely > discussed. There are significant technical reasons why systemd is > Linux only. And the potential "recepients", like BSD, don't seem to > be interested anyway. Unles

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same*

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Josselin Mouette writes: […] > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > that could be provided elsewhere. Is that “use” as in “if available” or is that actually “require and be sure to die unless provided”? (Please forgive my ignora

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Cameron Norman writes: > Do you really think logind and systemd are the only pieces of C > software that struggle with strings or config parsing? Those are > definitely a couple of things that could be split out into a separate > library so we all do not have to either (a) suffer through it,

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… I brought this upstream to no >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 novembre 2014 22:21 +0100, Marc Haber  : >>So what? You can also use systemd without using the tools for NTP, >>network configuration, or the journal. > > Is that as "easy" as running current GNOME without systemd, which is > surely possible? systemd-timesyncd and systemd-networkd are disab

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:49:58 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >I think he meant systemd, the PID 1 specifically here. No. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannh

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Cameron Norman
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* >> binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… I brought this upstream to no avail. > OK

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… I brought this upstream to no avail. OK, since this is a different forum, let me go over the reasons once again.

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Marc Haber writes: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:28:19 -0800, Nikolaus Rath > wrote: >>Marc Haber writes: >>> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:25:46 -0800, Nikolaus Rath >>> wrote: Would you stop using (random example) apache if it started shipping with some often-useful CGI scripts? >>> >>> I am pr

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-11-28 23:29 GMT+01:00 Adam Borowski : > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:36:22PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:21:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> > Is that as "easy" as running current GNOME without systemd, which is >> > surely possible? >> >> Much easier. Note that if y

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:36:22PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:21:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > Is that as "easy" as running current GNOME without systemd, which is > > surely possible? > > Much easier. Note that if you want GNOME without systemd, it required > actu

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:21:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Is that as "easy" as running current GNOME without systemd, which is > surely possible? Much easier. Note that if you want GNOME without systemd, it required actual effort instead of doing petty jabs on mailing lists. Actual effort was

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:28:19 -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:25:46 -0800, Nikolaus Rath >> wrote: >>> Would you stop using (random example) apache if it started shipping with >>> some often-useful CGI scripts? >> >> I am pretty sure that the apache peopl

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 28. November 2014, 09:28:39 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > Hi, > > Martin Steigerwald: > > Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 22:30:15 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > > > ❦ 27 novembre 2014 22:02 +0100, Martin Steigerwald : > > > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is i

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Marc Haber writes: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:25:46 -0800, Nikolaus Rath > wrote: >> Would you stop using (random example) apache if it started shipping with >> some often-useful CGI scripts? > > I am pretty sure that the apache people would include them with a way > to disable them just in case on

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:40:50PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hey, there are *still* bugs found because of s390 (not s390x). Uhm. s390x is 64bit BE; ppc64 and sparc64 never made it into the archive. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:03:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > It's not that anybody needs to listen, but nobody is going to tell me > to shut up just because I only know how the result of a job should > look like without being able to do the job myself. Having a detailed discussion about how syste

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Marc Haber writes: > Your way of communicating is hurting people as usual. Please stop. I respectfully disagree. There was imho nothing in the quoted message that would warrant a reaction like this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 19:05 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > And I am also pretty sure that they would not de-implement the Common > Gateway Interface just because people still like to run vulnerable > Matt Wright Scripts from 2002. For many things, CGI is actually the only way to run them securely, si

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:45:29 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >There is nothing in the FUD that’s still being spread that hasn’t been >entirely debunked almost a year ago in >https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd >I have nothing to add to what we wrote at that time. > >And I’m tired of p

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:25:46 -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >Would you stop using (random example) apache if it started shipping with >some often-useful CGI scripts? I am pretty sure that the apache people would include them with a way to disable them just in case one does not want them. And I am a

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:20:22 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >If you want to convince the systemd people to split that part of systemd- >-as-pid1 off to a separate library, and/or to properly version that API, >you should submit an appropriate patch You see, I have been an architect and a sysadmi

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Sascha Mester
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Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > > Github? Ugh! http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/free-software-needs-free-tools > This has just started, give them some time, please. No. If they even consider things like this, there is something seriously wrong right in the beginning. > Maybe it would b

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 13:48 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > > > It will be interesting to see how many Debian Maintainers and Developers > > will jump the ship and join them (in addition to the users). Future will > > I’ll tell you in the present. > >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 28.11.2014 09:43, Svante Signell wrote: > The official name of the Debian fork is devuan: https://devuan.org > It will be interesting to see how many Debian Maintainers and > Developers will jump the ship and join them (in addition to the > u

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > It will be interesting to see how many Debian Maintainers and Developers > will jump the ship and join them (in addition to the users). Future will I’ll tell you in the present. Github? Ugh! http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/free-software-needs-free-tools

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:53:18 +0100, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: > >Yes, the logind-related parte _could_ be provided elsewhere, but part of > >the features logind needs is already implemented in systemd. So using that > >instead of rolling your own from scratch is simply common se

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 08:45 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 27 novembre 2014 à 21:29 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > If you want to help our users, you > can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages in > Debian.

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 22:30:15 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > > ❦ 27 novembre 2014 22:02 +0100, Martin Steigerwald : > > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > > > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… > > > > Wild guess:

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 novembre 2014 à 21:29 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > wrote: > >Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > >that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > >provide a modern init sys

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
It took me time to realize why writing the below didn't feel right in some uneasy way. That's because, allthough being logically completely correct (I boldly assert here...), what I wrote below completely misses the essence and is therefor just bullshit, which we can have a good laugh about. And th

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 22:30:15 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 27 novembre 2014 22:02 +0100, Martin Steigerwald : > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… > > Wild guess: because it manages processes like PID

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Marc Haber writes: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > wrote: >>Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces >>that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to >>provide a modern init system. > > Why does it initialize the network, p

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 27 novembre 2014 22:02 +0100, Martin Steigerwald  : > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… Wild guess: because it manages processes like PID 1? -- /* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ 2.0.38 /usr/src/lin

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 21:29:40 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > > wrote: > >Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > >that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > >provide a modern init

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:53:18 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Yes, the logind-related parte _could_ be provided elsewhere, but part of >the features logind needs is already implemented in systemd. So using that >instead of rolling your own from scratch is simply common sense. It would be common se

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces >that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to >provide a modern init system. Why does it initialize the network, provide an NTP implementation a

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > > What exactly _is_ the point? It's one git repository instead of five, but > > what (technical) problem would having five repos and five Debian source > > packages, instead of one, actually solve? > > > > IMHO: None at all. Instead it creates busy-work, and a testing he

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 14:28:01 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > Martin Steigerwald: > > But I think for most of the people that dislike systemd this is the main > > concern: systemd is a lot of system building blocks in *one* repository > > and > > *one* debian package and while they may be

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > But I think for most of the people that dislike systemd this is the main > concern: systemd is a lot of system building blocks in *one* repository and > *one* debian package and while they may be separatable they are not separated. > > But well, its an upstream topic a

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 11:53:18 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > Hi, Hi Matthias, > Martin Steigerwald: > > > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > > > that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > > > provide a modern init system. >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 27.11.2014 um 01:19 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Yes, yes, and yes. This needs to be put in a frame and bashed in the > head of anyone who keeps repeating that systemd is about GNOME. What about the idea of being mindful of the tone of your conversation and keeping it conciously moderate, Jossel

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > > that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > > provide a modern init system. > > I still wonder why there are provided within systemd then. > Yes, the logind-related part

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 01:19:14 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 16:05 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > And many of us who actually *are* Debian server administrators have said > > repeatedly that your gut is wrong, in the innumerable versions of this > > conve

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Noel Torres wrote: > Exactly. Who they are? The people who chose Debian, are they laptop users? > desktop users? sysadmins? The question is important. All of the people you mention choose Debian. It is impossible to know who they are though, except for people who

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett writes: > gnome Depends: gnome-core, which Depends: gnome-user-share, which > Depends: apache2-bin (or apache2.2-bin in stable, which is a > transitional package depending on apache2-bin in unstable). Also, just in general, popcon is not going to be particularly helpful in getting

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Sascha Mester
Every Desktop-user who has a printer also needs a webserver since CUPS has its own webinterface ... ;) Am 27.11.2014 um 02:18 schrieb Josh Triplett: > gnome Depends: gnome-core, which Depends: gnome-user-share, which > Depends: apache2-bin (or apache2.2-bin in stable, which is a > transitional pa

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery's response already refuted the general approach of attempting to create artificial divisiveness between Debian users, but in addition to that, I'd like to refute a specific bit of misinformation from this mail: Noel Torres wrote: > But we can have estimates. popcon gives us 98681 inst

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:05:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Noel Torres writes: > > > It is a gut feeling also, and one that has been widely expresed by > > others, (with better and worse words) that Debian server admins will not > > be pleased with an init system which is bigger and does not

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