Re: Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:26:57AM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Perhaps if you picked something other than runit you'd make your point more effectively. Try using the case of someone who makes a tool that depends from System V init running as process #1. It is hardly farfetched.

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): While I appreciate that this is a very important issue for a lot of people, I am deeply concerned by the point in time it is revived. _*We have less than 3 weeks till the Jessie freeze starts!*_ I agree

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/17/2014 10:33 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: If the fix is not easy then we have three options: the release team mark it `jessie-ignore', the GNOME maintainers fix it, or GNOME is removed from jessie. The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants to rely on specific

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants to rely on specific features of a given initsystem. Yes, indeed. The implication of this proposed GR seems to be that those tools

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/17/2014 11:26 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): The implication here appears to be troubling for any upstream who wants to rely on specific features of a given initsystem. Yes, indeed. The implication

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.vote Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: If people want to make Debian derivatives that work only with a particular init system, that's completely fine. The reverse - trying to put back support for sysvinit, if it gets taken out of Debian, would be very very

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 10/17/2014 12:06 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes (Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): nevertheless, runit behaves differently when it is pid 1 than when it is used in a subordinate role to another initsystem. If i'm upstream and i'm building

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (2014-10-17 18:38:35) On 10/17/2014 12:06 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: And the GR text is quite careful: it doesn't say that failure to work with one init system is worse than any other bug. It is only _requiring a specific init system to be pid 1_ which is forbidden.

Re: Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Daniel Kahn Gillmor: The implication of this proposed GR seems to be that those tools would be unfit for inclusion within debian unless someone erects all the additional scaffolding that runit provides (process supervision, pipelined logfiles with autorotation and log msgs just sent to

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/03

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-16 17:23, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): I wish to propose the following general resolution, and hereby call for seconds. This GR resolution proposal is identical to that proposed by Matthew Vernon in March