Re: Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit-core installations. Devuan is _not_ Debian. They forked it, with the full knowledge that they might have to do all the work to support their choices.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:30 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> As long as people choose to strip of dependencies to libsystemd from >> packages like util-linux, avoiding a fork would not work with how Debian >> and Debian based distributions are built. > > It might be feasible to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:30 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > As long as people choose to strip of dependencies to libsystemd from > packages like util-linux, avoiding a fork would not work with how Debian > and Debian based distributions are built. It might be feasible to introduce nosystemd

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 17/Oct/2018 23:06:24 +0200 Russ Allbery wrote: >> You say "more than adequate". I don't particularly see it as providing a >> solid system as you don't get restart on failure. Now I can see how >> people say that this is not a problem as daemons should not crash in the >> first place.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Bastian Blank - 19.10.18, 12:25: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > So Devuan almost doubles the percentage of sysvinit-core > > installations. > Devuan is _not_ Debian. They forked it, with the full knowledge that > they might have to do all the work to

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Holger Levsen - 19.10.18, 12:02: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > A minority? Yes. But a sizable one. > > It doesn't matter how many people use it, if noone is willing to > maintain it. *If* people are maintaining it, it also doesnt matter > how many

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > A minority? Yes. But a sizable one. It doesn't matter how many people use it, if noone is willing to maintain it. *If* people are maintaining it, it also doesnt matter how many people are using it :) *Someone* needs to do the

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 19/10/18 a les 09:37, Philipp Kern ha escrit: > On 2018-10-19 08:39, Narcis Garcia

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 09:37 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-10-19 08:39, Narcis Garcia wrote: > > El 18/10/18 a les 22:07, Bernd Zeimetz ha escrit: > > > For my packages I can state that I do not have a single machine > > > which is not using systemd - and to be honest - I won't waste my > >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-10-19 08:39, Narcis Garcia wrote: El 18/10/18 a les 22:07, Bernd Zeimetz ha escrit: For my packages I can state that I do not have a single machine which is not using systemd - and to be honest - I won't waste my time in writing/debugging initscripts. Most of people want to use a GNU

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-19 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 18/10/18 a les 22:07, Bernd Zeimetz ha escrit: > For my packages I can state that I do

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/13/18 12:58 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >>> no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 17/10/18 a les 23:06, Russ Allbery ha escrit: > I consider providing an init script

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > On 17.10.2018 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think a package of a daemon that does not inherently require any >> systemd-specific features and would work straightforwardly with >> sysvinit, but has only a systemd unit file and no init script, is not >> only buggy but

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On 17.10.2018 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think a package of a daemon that does not inherently require any > systemd-specific features and would work straightforwardly with sysvinit, > but has only a systemd unit file and no init script, is not only buggy but > RC-buggy. That's what Policy

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > I don't understand. If I submit a merge request to the maintainer, it's > on me to test what I submit actually works. So if I add stuff for a > completely different init system I have to test it. The question is: Is > the package buggy if it does not contain an init script

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Petter, (Dropping backports) Petter Reinholdtsen writes: >> 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). >> 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. > > Thank you for expressing so well the cause of the fate for sysvinit in > Debian. It seem clear its

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > SysV init leaves all the really hard problems to these, as it cannot > > really do much by itself. That's a fact that people that keep yelling > > "but SysV init was so easy!" keep finessing.. > > Absolutely. And the

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:20:24PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Absolutely. And the sysvinit boot system have lots of unsolved problems > > we never got around to figuring out, related to disk and other device > > setup.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 14:48 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > The question is: Is > the package buggy if it does not contain an init script but a systemd > unit and it seems to be the case. Note that there are a *lot* of useful > options in a systemd unit that would need emulation to make properly

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Pitt] > It's not only that. The sysvinit package *itself* doesn't actually do > much really. That's not to downplay your past involvement there of > course (e. g. developing insserv alone was a huge task), but the > *real* maintenance is in all the packages that *ship* SysV init >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:47:36PM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes: > > … this applies to the shim only. I was a bit surprised seeing on > > someone else’s system that it was no longer installable, but almost > > all systemd-free systems of people I know do not use the shim

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Benda Xu] > I was about to reply to this thread, but you have completely expressed > what I want to say: > > 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). > 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. Thank you for expressing so well the cause of the fate for

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-10-16 at 08:48, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-10-16 14:36, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop >> non-systemd support"): >> >>> Could someone reiterate about what the curr

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-10-16 14:36, Ian Jackson wrote: Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): Could someone reiterate about what the current state of init diversity is supposed to be? Is it assumed to be best effort of every maintainer being requir

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > Could someone reiterate about what the current state of init diversity > is supposed to be? Is it assumed to be best effort of every maintainer > being required to ship an init script

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
KatolaZ writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > The problem that spurred this thread is that sysvinit needs a > maintainer. That's why some of us are here: our intention is to help > with maintaining sysvinit in Debian if possible,

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-10-16 13:27, Matthew Vernon wrote: So: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-init-diversity It's a standard mailman list with a public archive. I'm hoping people interested in init system diversity in Debian can use it as a place to co-ordinate. I don't want it to be

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 22:31 -0700, Alessio Treglia wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:51 PM Enzo Nicosia > wrote: > > Please, just tell us who we should contact (current/last > > maintainer?) to start working on that. > > That's easy [1]. It is, but the link you gave is a rather cryptic way of

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
that the package is ready for adoption, as Petter also already mentioned: Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/10/msg00171.html For adopting it, one would need to become at least a Debian maintainer, or… have someone who spon

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:18 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > The main problem with sysvinit is the lack of a git repository. There is an upstream git repository with commits up to September 2018: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git -- bye,

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Enzo Nicosia
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:16:37AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:18 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > > The main problem with sysvinit is the lack of a git repository. > > There is an upstream git repository with commits up to September 2018: > >

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:02:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > I’ve volunteered to help out earlier in the thread, within constraints > > (but rather that than to see things go and break). > > The main problem with sysvinit is

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Matthew Vernon wrote: > > >I'm aware of some work ongoing at the moment to try and improve matters > >(currently looking at elongind, for example). If anyone's got some > > What’s elongind? elogind? Never heard of it… elogind is

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 17:49:23 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 17:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It's a matter of people subscribing to the > > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list and discussing there, > > I > > don't see why anything heavier would be

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 17:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It's a matter of people subscribing to the > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org list and discussing there, > I > don't see why anything heavier would be needed. I thought alioth was no more, but maybe the mailing list remains?

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Evilham, le lun. 15 oct. 2018 16:27:25 +0200, a ecrit: > Where to now? > At devuan-dev, Adam Sampson has suggested that the debian-bsd and > debian-hurd communities are also very interested in keeping non-systemd > things working, Yes, but they aren't populated so much either, with already a lot

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Evilham
Dear debian-devel, Am 15/10/2018 um 15:20 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > [ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not > set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, > Thorsten… ] > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > [ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not > set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, > Thorsten… ] Thanks… will follow up on those I read up on in the web interface (why is there no NNTP

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:20:03PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Is it worth interested parties reaching out to the Devuan project > regarding person-power for sysvinit maintenance? It's hard to discuss this with a straight face, but in any case even they admit they don't have any

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
[ re-adding TG who requested CCs in an earlier message, but has not set Mail-Followup-To:. You've probably missed half the conversation, Thorsten… ] On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be removed

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Holger Levsen writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that >> > no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? >> >> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for over 2 years, and

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-15 Thread Narcis Garcia
Sad to read Debian is walking to be single init software, unlike other more open distros. This is not "The universal operating system" direction. __ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Please note that sysvinit dependencies still have open RC bugs which > noone is caring for. Oof. How do I find them out? The BTS shows no RC bugs, not even ones tagged as affects src:sysvinit, and the QA page

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:17:11PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > sysvinit currently has two maintainers, but they've only > > > > > ever made one upload (over a year ago). > > > > Why would sysvinit need uploads? It’s largely working