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

2013-10-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, WTF? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:18:18AM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > Changed-By: Andreas Moog 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 building with ld --as-

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

2013-10-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 25/10/2013 00:39, Brian May a écrit : > On 25 October 2013 03:33, Christoph Anton Mitterer > mailto:cales...@scientia.net>> wrote: > > Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and > more pissed off by GNOME _upstream_ . > They continuously try to push their a

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/25/2013 12:08 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/24/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> This would mean: > [...] >> * Tweak CD and installer builds: >>+ change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead >> of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) >>+ Add an exp

Re: OpenVZ

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/25/2013 12:30 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:16 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 10/24/2013 06:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oc

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve McIntyre dijo [Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 04:40:48PM +0100]: > Hi folks, > > 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

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] James McCoy > That doesn't contradict what I stated. One can use systemd (the > package) without using systemd (the binary) as PID 1. I don't see any > reason why Gnome would care what init system is used, while I do see > reasons why they want to use the various other tools that come along

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread James McCoy
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 wrote: > >> Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. > >> ... > >> Pros: > >> > >> * CD#1 will work again without size worries > >> > >> * Smaller,

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Mark - Syminet
To not be provided with a choice is utterly *horrible*. There is init, upstart and sytemd; the linux boot manager (GRUB) is a JOKE; see extlinux - use what the kernel devsuse. Perhaps we should appeal to the BSD community. :wq :q ```:q One can't help but wonder if we've finally got enou

Re: GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:25:18PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > > What's the status of GNOME on BSDs? How do they get around this sytemd > > stuff, if it's not ported? Do they just use chunks of systemd like > > Ubuntu? > > I can't answer for the systemd part but GNOME on BSDs mostly depends >

Work-needing packages report for Oct 25, 2013

2013-10-24 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 535 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 160 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > > In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. > > I'm missing a key bit of context here. Does gnome-settings-daemon just > require that systemd be installed? Or does it require that the init > system be systemd? > > The systemd

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
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 change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I >> feel.

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:41 -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > No, no, no… drop GNOME. > > Useless anyway. 1. Don't top-post. 2. Assume good faith. 3. This list is for discussion of Debian development, not for random opinions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 10:54, Brian May wrote: > * The Debian packages of Gnome currently will not install on non-Linux > systems. > Seems I was mislead. On hurd and kfreebsd, gnome-settings-daemon does not depend on systemd. http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-settings-daemon/3.8.5-2/debian/contr

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 10:25, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > gnome-settings-daemon depends on systemd > > This is only true on Debian's Linux architectures: > > > http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-settings-daemon/3.8.5-2/debian/control#L58 Oh, ok, good,

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 06:37, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm missing a key bit of context here. Does gnome-settings-daemon just > require that systemd be installed? Or does it require that the init > system be systemd? > Me too. Am getting rather lost as to why gnome-settings-daemon depends on systemd.

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 09:39 +1100, Brian May wrote: >> If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it. > Well actually it's not that easy to avoid all of it, at least you get > some libraries even when using 3rd party GTK/GNOME apps. Meh. That's not

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:41 -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > No, no, no… drop GNOME. > > Useless anyway. You really think such comments will help anyone or actually lead to dropping it? o.O smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
James wrote: >On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. >> ... >> Pros: >> >> * CD#1 will work again without size worries >> >> * Smaller, simpler desktop >> >> * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) >> >> *

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

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 09:39 +1100, Brian May wrote: > If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it. Well actually it's not that easy to avoid all of it, at least you get some libraries even when using 3rd party GTK/GNOME apps. > Trying to say "[GNOME upstream] continuously try to [.

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
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 don't have the ability to choose a desktop. A

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
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 incrementally less helpful? Sorry, but we're talking about Debian! I don't think

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Brian May wrote: > gnome-settings-daemon depends on systemd This is only true on Debian's Linux architectures: http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-settings-daemon/3.8.5-2/debian/control#L58 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Symonds
No, no, no… drop GNOME. Useless anyway. -- Mark On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > systemd, GNOME or similar. > > > In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. > > I

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the > > choice more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice > > in an installer. […] > > > > If you need to eliminate the concept of default

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrei wrote: >On Jo, 24 oct 13, 16:40:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> 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 >>

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:08 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of options, > users will tend to pick the first on the list. Randomise the order (every time). And note that I wouldn't suggest to add all things that can be vaguely considered a desktop envir

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 06:48 +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. I don't think user's are that stupid. Just think about the

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice >> more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an >> installer. Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of >> options,

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice > more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an > installer. Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of options, > users will tend to pick t

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > But do we really need a default desktop environment? There are different ways of presenting the choice that make the choice more or less obvious, but it's hard to avoid a default choice in an installer. Even if you force the user to pick one of a list of optio

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 06:24, Olav Vitters wrote: > - GNOME 3.10 runs on OpenBSD (probably good to repeat this :P) > If I understand this correctly, upstream Gnome 3.10 will run fine on OpenBSD. However the Debian packages won't work on OpenBSD, as gnome-settings-daemon depends on systemd which doe

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

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 03:33, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and > more pissed off by GNOME _upstream_ . > They continuously try to push their agenda through and force their > blessings (most of the time broken, e.g. NM, GNOME Shell)

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Lynn writes: > How often is the choice of default desktop re-evaluated, and how is this > done? We have an argument about it at least once every release cycle. One of the problems with the recurring argument is that we don't have a good decision-making criteria. Another problem is that t

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
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 netinst image and web pages a list of desktop blends would need

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Since some people have demanded to drop GNOME as default desktop in "my" "systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME" thread the following popped up in my mind: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. Do we need

Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-24 Thread Roger Lynn
On 24/10/13 03:00, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek : >> > Well, that's one more reason the init system and the dbus services should >> > be >> > separated out in the packaging. >> Some of the services consume fun

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now

2013-10-24 Thread Mark - Syminet
This is a move to SABOTAGE linux as an OS. -- Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:30:41PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > systemd, GNOME or similar. > > > In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd.

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > And this is not just an issue because of people not wanting to use systemd > init, but also because systemd init *can't* run in a container. Whoah, that's not true: sudo systemd-nspawn -bD ~/images/fedora-19 works just fine :) Zby

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

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:37 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. > > > > I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away > > from he

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

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
This seems a little bit of a distraction from the issue at hand (Debian Development) — perhaps you and the OP could follow up off list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

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

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I'd call such cases even intentional malicious behaviour against user. > > I'm sure you can easily find the related bugs, but please keep them away > from here, since the flames do not need even more coals to burn higher.

Bug#727644: ITP: snap-byob -- ITP: snap-byob -- A block-based drag-and-drop programming environment

2013-10-24 Thread Nicolas Guilbert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Guilbert * Package name: snap-byob Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Jens Mönig * URL : http://snap.berkeley.edu * License : AGPL Programming Lang: Javascript Description : ITP: snap-byob -- A block-based d

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

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 21:42 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean > with "outrageously"? Yeah I could, but this already turned far too much into a flame war. There's e.g. the bug that Evolution silently corrupts eMails, which is known

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two > in order to force adoption of systemd. There are obviously others who GNOME is not. And I'm speaking as a GNOME release team member. A video of GNOME 3.10 ru

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

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:33:34PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I know of my own tickets I've reported upstream and how outrageously > GNOME deals with some critical things... Could you give me a few bugnumbers and/or be more concrete what you mean with "outrageously"? Do you mean some

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > systemd, GNOME or similar. > In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. I'm missing a key bit of context here. Does gnome-settings-daemon just require that systemd be installed?

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:35:30PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > On 24/10/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. > > I agree. > I'm using it happily for more than a year and it mostly works. Less > mature than Gnome 2.x, which i still miss

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Jackson Doak
XFCE is short of maintainers, both upstream and debian, but 4.12 is expected to be released sometime in the next 6 months. That said, everything both debian and upstream is stable, and a number of 4.11 "development release" packages are able to be uploaded to experimental if more people come onboar

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:25:12PM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Brian May (br...@microcomaustralia.com.au): > > On 24 October 2013 11:09, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally > > > (mostly because of the above point), but if I u

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 24/10/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. I agree. I'm using it happily for more than a year and it mostly works. Less mature than Gnome 2.x, which i still miss, but powerful and functional. Pros: * CD#1 will work again without

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > On 10/24/2013 04:51 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: [...] > > If GNOME decides they want the DBus interfaces from systemd, that does > > not put any obligation on systemd or the systemd maintainers to split > > those bits of functionality out of systemd. > > We've been reading a

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] 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 overlap between them, right? Even if one assume that they

Bug#727629: general: CPU fan always on (high speed)

2013-10-24 Thread Felipe
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? It's a fresh install (Wheezy and Jessie). There was no changes on the system, and the fan works on high speed, with a normal temper

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Jackson Doak
+1 to xfce, but it might be worth using a nicer theme than the current xfce one. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 24/10/13 17:31, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? >> >> That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, thoug

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/10/13 16:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I haven't tested GNOME on kfreebsd-* for a long time now, but I > assume that the package works if it has been successfully built, > doesn't it? I believe the effect of not having systemd-logind is that the features for which GNOME uses systemd

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/10/13 17:31, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard > rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some > unsolved issues in that regard, which is a problem since GNO

Re: GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > [Another new topic, sorry -develites] > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > > > > > That was a big strengh of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Le 24/10/2013 18:34, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : > On 24 October 2013 15:15, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: >> Le 24/10/2013 15:57, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : >>> On 24 October 2013 14:18, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git:

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wookey
+++ Neil Williams [2013-10-24 18:06 +0100]: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:40:48 +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 change to make sense. Now

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Brian May (br...@microcomaustralia.com.au): > On 24 October 2013 11:09, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally > > (mostly because of the above point), but if I understand it right, it takes > > over the whole cgroups system, requ

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Le 24/10/2013 18:24, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > On 24/10/13 at 15:18 +0200, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: >> Hello, >> I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: >> >> git clone deb::mypackage >> >> It does a faithful import of the package history from >> snapshot.debian.org. There i

Re: GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Hashem Nasarat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNOME can run on BSD. This page documents the procedure done by one user. https://wiki.gnome.org/TingweiLan/FreeBSD On 10/24/2013 01:16 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > [Another new topic, sorry -develites] > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200,

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wolodja Wentland
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 change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I > feel. Let's change the def

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Please keep debian-accessibility in Cc for accessibility matters, otherwise concerned people won't be able to provide information :) Neil Williams, le Thu 24 Oct 2013 18:08:56 +0100, a écrit : > On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:31:52 +0200 > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 24/10/13 at 16:40 +0100,

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:31:52 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 24/10/13 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 change to make sense. No

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:40:48 +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 change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I > feel. Let's change the def

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 18:08 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On 10/24/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > This would mean: > [...] > > * Tweak CD and installer builds: > >+ change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead > > of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) > >+ A

GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
[Another new topic, sorry -develites] On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > > > That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard >

Re: lxc / vserver / openvz (was: systemd flamage)

2013-10-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:40:04PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > > > > What do you mean by "holding hostile root." ? > > http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 > > > > The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC) ar

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/13 at 17:40 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 24 October 2013 17:38, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > >> What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > >> > >> That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've

Bug#727620: ITP: dh-virtualenv -- Wrap & build python packages using virtualenv

2013-10-24 Thread Jyrki Pulliainen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jyrki Pulliainen * Package name: dh-virtualenv Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Jyrki Pulliainen * URL : http://www.github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python, Perl Description : Wra

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 oct 13, 16:40:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi folks, > > 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 t

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

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > > at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the > > "revised code of conduct" that Wouter is proposing: "Assume good faith". > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wr

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

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:30 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Now, let me know - is this the new way of silencing critical voices? > > No. But it is a gigantic leap forward in the culture of our community. Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and more pissed off by

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > And I for one heavily use vservers > > > > It's a professional shame of mine that we are still trying to get ri

Re: OpenVZ (was: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:16 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/24/2013 06:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wr

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Zlatan Todoric
Sorry for not setting link to [0] Here it is https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeFlashback On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Zlatan Todoric wrote: > But then again you have Flashback mode [0]. > > And just bashing GNOME DE for systemd and GNOME Classic > is not good enough point because probably the lar

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Zlatan Todoric
But then again you have Flashback mode [0]. And just bashing GNOME DE for systemd and GNOME Classic is not good enough point because probably the largest user base of Debian user use GNOME. This comment should not be seen as pro-GNOME as XFCE is also decent DE which I also admire. Also I have que

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 October 2013 17:38, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? >> >> That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard >> rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard > rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some > unsolved issues in that regard, which is a

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:05 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so > >there is that. > > Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole > AFAICS. I just wondered... when and how is this going to be decided? I mean, wh

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 October 2013 15:15, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: > Le 24/10/2013 15:57, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : >> On 24 October 2013 14:18, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: >>> >>> git clone deb::mypackage >> >> Is it compatible with Ia

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 24/10/13 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi folks, > > 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 cha

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/13 at 15:18 +0200, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: > Hello, > I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: > > git clone deb::mypackage > > It does a faithful import of the package history from > snapshot.debian.org. There is some agressive caching built-in, and a > bit of log

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread James McCoy
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. > ... > Pros: > > * CD#1 will work again without size worries > > * Smaller, simpler desktop > > * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) > > * Does not depend on replac

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 24/10/2013 17:08, Uoti Urpala a écrit : > Surely you won't claim that tools > depending on systemd as init is an argument to not use systemd as init! It's an argument for not depending on those tools, since we don't want to (and can't) rely on systemd being the init system. Regards. signat

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 10/24/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: > This would mean: [...] > * Tweak CD and installer builds: >+ change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead > of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) >+ Add an explicitly-named Gnome CD#1 >+ Remove the explicitly-named X

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:29:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Yes, I just read what the release team put in their announcement and > was repeating what one of the proposals were. / | Proposed Release Goals | == | | The call for release goals has finished and we

Re: Please assume good faith

2013-10-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:00:42 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > > at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the > > "revised code of conduct" that Wouter is proposing: "Assume good faith". > > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/24/2013 05:05 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Adrian wrote: >> >> Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so >> there is that. > > Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole > AFAICS. Yes, I just read what the release team put in their announcemen

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:40 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > > What do you mean by "holding hostile root." ? > http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 > > The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC) are upstream now, and should > be ready for jessie. > > Until then

Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, 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 default desktop for installation to xfce. This would mean:

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Uoti Urpala
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 bit of it so that the modularity becomes e

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adrian wrote: > >Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so >there is that. Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole AFAICS. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Fr

Re: lxc / vserver / openvz (was: systemd flamage)

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:40:04PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 24, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > > What do you mean by "holding hostile root." ? > http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413 > > The missing parts (UID virtualization IIRC) are upstream now, and should > be ready for jessie. If I re

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Kitterman
Marvin Renich wrote: >* Tollef Fog Heen [131024 05:39]: >> ]] Steve Langasek >> >> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> > > 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek : >> > > > [...] >> > > >> If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends >on systemd, >> > > >>

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 09:49 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > I believe that systemd/GNOME upstream is intentionally coupling the two > in order to force adoption of systemd. There are obviously others who > do not believe this. If it is true, however, I would consider it > sufficient justification

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

2013-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: > > My apologies, I overreacted. > > Clear critic with real background - many of us have the same experience - > (how many times did my system break in the last years due to GNome?) > are si

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