Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
The Wanderer dijo [Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 11:18:12PM -0400]: > > It must work without systemd well enough to be able to cleanly reboot > > the system from the GUI, after upgrading. > > > > Anything beyond that is nice-to-have, but definitely NOT required. > > I, for one, would be highly displeased

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie

2014-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Urlichs wrote: >For Zurg (Jessie+1), we're likely to switch to Wayland. How do you plan to We're *what*? (Says someone who uses X11 forwarding, VNC in, VNC out, and all that on an almost-, if not daily, basis.) OT: prevent-systemd-*_9_all.deb are in my repo. Wookey, feel free to u

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* The Wanderer , 2014-07-04, 12:00: Zurg (Jessie+1), Has that name actually been formalized in any way? No. But no worries, if RT chooses a different name, we'll have a GR to override them. :-P -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 04, The Wanderer wrote: > This part is precisely what I'm objecting to. I don't consider being > expected to reboot *in order to maintain existing functionality* after > an upgrade to be reasonable. Tough luck for you then, I fear that this is a perception issue. > At the very least, in t

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 11:28 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Borowski: >> There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the >> kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such >> forced reboots on

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, July 04, 2014 17:28:05 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Borowski: > > There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the > > kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such > > forced reboots on a repeated basis, I don't like where

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Adam Borowski: > There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the > kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such > forced reboots on a repeated basis, I don't like where this is going. > systemd and its components can re-exec themselves, t

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 10:42 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52:07AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > >> So, let me get this straight: >> >> You're saying that if, having decided to postpone rebooting after >> an upgrade where any reasona

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014, at 16:42, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52:07AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > So, let me get this straight: > > > > You're saying that if, having decided to postpone rebooting after an > > upgrade where any reasonable person would expect to reboot > > Thi

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52:07AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > So, let me get this straight: > > You're saying that if, having decided to postpone rebooting after an > upgrade where any reasonable person would expect to reboot This is Debian, not Windows or Red Hat, forced reboots are not accept

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 04:52 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> ... particularly because I use rather fewer things than many other >> people, and don't use most fancy GUI elements. (For example, I >> don't have a graphical "power button" a

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 04:59:25PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser has been seen typing: > No, there just has not been any challenge that met the form and > other requirements… and I am at a bit of loss at what to do here. > Besides, it’s not that the TC made a decision. Rather, the TC wa

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
That will be my last contribution to this pointless discussion. Le jeudi, 3 juillet 2014, 16.59:25 Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > or without systemd btw). Given that the technical committee has made > > a decision which stayed unchallenged (so far), I've now come to > > think that > No, there just

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014, at 16:59, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Besides, it’s not that the TC made a decision. Rather, the TC was > split, and the chairman threw in his weight. This is absolutely not > what I’d call a project(!) decision. No! The TC has made the decision with full adherence to Debian Con

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
The Wanderer writes: > ... particularly because I use rather fewer things than > many other people, and don't use most fancy GUI elements. (For example, > I don't have a graphical "power button" at all; I shut down by exiting > my window manager, logging out of the console where I had originally

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 11:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to >> testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > >> I generally dist-upgrade my primary co

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The Wanderer: > I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to > testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > We're talking about an upgrade from one release to the other here, with many intrusive changes (not just systemd). If you do that upgrade not in

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to > testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > I generally dist-upgrade my primary computer to testing about once a > week, give or take, but I don't reboot it more often than once a month

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 01:40 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Thorsten Glaser: >>> Can we get over this now and start making Jessie the most awesome >>> stable release we've ever prepared together? >> >> To do that, it MUST work without systemd, if a

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > A lot of Debian systems even run without dbus! > Yeah. So? systemd doesn't force you to run a dbus daemon. > No, there just has not been any challenge that met the form and > other requirements… and I am at a bit of loss at what to do here. > You get to do the same thing

sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > The proper solution is to stop trying to hide ourselves from to the fact > that some sort of systemd interfaces have been made unavoidable in > modern desktop environments (fact which is rightfully reflected in our Eh… you know… these are not a