Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-11-29 22:25 GMT+01:00 Svante Signell : > On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 22:01 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > Debian releases when it's ready. If large numbers of our users are >> > going to >> > have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switc

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Philip Hands
Felipe Sateler writes: ... > This is indeed unfortunate. Because runlevel[234] are links to > multi-user.target it means that distinctions between those runlevels are > not preserved. It also means that the ability to differentiate between > graphical.target and multi-user.target is almost lost

Bug#771475: ITP: libfap6 -- APRS parser

2014-11-29 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Iain R. Learmonth" Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Iain R. Learmonth" * Package name: libfap Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Tapio Aaltonen, OH2GVE * URL : http://www.pakettiradio.net/libfap/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-29 Thread Josh Triplett
[I've removed the blatant trolling from the subject line.] Marc Haber wrote: > With all the technical issues in systemd popping up just now, we have > frozen prematurely. On the contrary, that's precisely what the freeze is *for*: to stop taking new development that doesn't fix bugs (and potentia

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:30:49 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >> > One claim is changed, see below. > >> > On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >> > > H

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 22:01 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Debian releases when it's ready. If large numbers of our users are > > going to > > have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to > > systemd, > > then we should take appr

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-11-29 21:30, Steve Langasek wrote: Debian releases when it's ready. If large numbers of our users are going to have a bad experience with jessie as a result of being switched to systemd, then we should take appropriate steps to address that, even if that means unfreezing the installer

Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Svante Signell , 2014-11-29, 21:27: Debian will not be as it was historically Indeed! Debian is going to be more awesome than it historically was (with or without systemd overhead). -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 21:27 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > But it does not seem like you are realizing what is > happening unfortunately. Debian will not be as it was historically due > to this issue. Maybe the new DDs are to young to learn from history? Please don't patronise people. Just because

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > One claim is changed, see below. > > On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Hello, > > > In summary: > > > a) Upgrades should _not_ change in

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:19 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:40 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan, > > please! > > You are of course free to do that. This discussion is about what Debian > should do, howev

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:40 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan, > please! You are of course free to do that. This discussion is about what Debian should do, however. If you wish to discuss Devuan, please do so in a more appropriate

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
On 29-11-2014 19:40, Svante Signell wrote: [...] > This is another nail in the Universal OS coffin: Let's move to devuan, > please! Use Debian as upstream (as long as it lives) > > Yes, next Debian release is lendows, not jessie :( Thanks! We appreciate less noise on these lists and on the next

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: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:14 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > One claim is changed, see below. > > > > On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > In summary: > > > a) Upgrades should _not_ change i

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 17:10 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 29.11.2014 08:37, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > I'm not Simon, but one valid argument I've heard is that embedded stuff > > has a tendency to get stuck on old vendor kernels, something that > > doesn't work so well when systemd u

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: upgrading to jessie broke usb_storage on a mode switched device

2014-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 12:20 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: [...] > So in these logs we see that: > > 1. when I plug in my smartphone > 2. the kernel tells me he has noticed it and correctly reports the >newly discovered device to the log > 3. also the usb-storage module reports that it is seeing

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: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:15:08PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > One claim is changed, see below. > > On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > Hello, > > > In summary: > > a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > > kept. > > b) New installs shou

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: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
One claim is changed, see below. On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > In summary: > a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > kept. > b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf > message about alternative ini

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: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:36:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: >>Marc Haber: >>> It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new >>> concepts. >>> >>I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new >>con

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: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 29.11.2014 13:41, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I'm heartened that some developers are doing the work to make > non-systemd remain a > viable option in debian, but for it not to degenerate into "the systemd > way / the less maintained > and tested non-systemd way", we need to promote the API

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 29.11.2014 08:37, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'm not Simon, but one valid argument I've heard is that embedded stuff > has a tendency to get stuck on old vendor kernels, something that > doesn't work so well when systemd uses newer kernel interfaces. Correct, and I don't see the situation i

Re: curl and certificate verification in jessie

2014-11-29 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
[ not sure what's the point of CCing debian-devel, but I kept it. I removed Ian from the chain though, since he hasn't been much involved with curl lately ] On sab, nov 29, 2014 at 01:10:20 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi, > > I recently started to move parts of debian.org's infrastructure to

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 novembre 2014 12:41 GMT, Alastair McKinstry   : > One concern I'd have is the lack of flexibility to produce a cut-down > system. The option of "a dedicated init=/custom-program", but lack of > an ntpd, for example, because ntp has been absorbed into systemd's > orbit and other ntpd's bitro

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
> Why, precisely, do you foresee future problems with embedded systems > development? Personally, I'm looking forward to a much easier time > building future embedded systems using systemd, or the occasional > too-small-for-anything-else embedded system (that couldn't run standard > sysvinit or D

BSP in Alcester, GB, 16-18th January 2015

2014-11-29 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Hi, I will host a small BSP at my home in January over the weekend of 16th - 18th. Regrettably, I do not have enough room for more than a handful of attendees, so I have invited some that I know are interested. If you would particularly like to attend, please mail me privately and I'll see what w

curl and certificate verification in jessie

2014-11-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, I recently started to move parts of debian.org's infrastructure to jessie. I noticed a regression with software using curl to do https with certificate verification. On wheezy, this works: | weasel@mipsel-manda-01:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/puppet-https-buildd | Acquire::https::buildd.debia

Re: upgrading to jessie broke usb_storage on a mode switched device

2014-11-29 Thread Tomas Pospisek
So, since there hasn't been any reaction to this, let me try to ask a few additional questions, that might help me to find out where to dig next: Am 27.11.2014 um 18:53 schrieb Tomas Pospisek: > Am 27.11.2014 um 17:12 schrieb Thomas Goirand: >> On 11/27/2014 09:28 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >>> Hel

Bug#771415: ITP: libarray-heap-perl -- perl module implementing heaps/priority queues

2014-11-29 Thread Slaven Rezic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Slaven Rezic * Package name: libarray-heap-perl Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Marc Lehmann * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Array-Heap * License : Artistic & GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : perl mo

Re: splitting source packages

2014-11-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 10:49:34 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 16:50:12 schrieb Neil Williams: > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:24:12 +0100 > > > > Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Neil Williams: > > > > By having separate source packages, a stable

Bug#771414: ITP: bbbike -- route planner for cyclists

2014-11-29 Thread Slaven Rezic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Slaven Rezic * Package name: bbbike Version : 3.18 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic * URL : http://bbbike.sourceforge.net * License : Artistic & GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : route planner for cyclists

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: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. >> >I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new >concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, they make my life way easier.

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:09:19 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of >> services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus >> starting to runlevels behaves completely different from what users >> expect. >> >Well

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript trigger design

2014-11-29 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le vendredi 28 novembre 2014 à 20:46 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2014-11-28 13:20:36) > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > >> It's been a long time I've been thinking about it, and I believe that > >> the only way to do this, would be to use trigge

Re: splitting source packages

2014-11-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 16:50:12 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:24:12 +0100 > > Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Neil Williams: > > > By having separate source packages, a stable API becomes mandatory. > > > > You're correct in that it is easier to keep an API

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Tollef Fog Heen: > I'm not Simon, but one valid argument I've heard is that embedded stuff > has a tendency to get stuck on old vendor kernels, something that > doesn't work so well when systemd uses newer kernel interfaces. > That attitude is unfortunately not limited to "traditional" embedd

Re: ITP: cruft-ng -- program that finds any cruft built up on your system / rewrite in C

2014-11-29 Thread Alexandre Detiste
> > Here is my ITP for my rewrite of cruft's engine. > > I think you might want to email debian-mentors, with a sponsorship request > (an RFS bug), rather than debian-devel, that is intended as a mailing list > for technical discussions. > See https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors Ok thanks for adv

Bug#771403: ITP: willie -- simple, lightweight, open source, easy-to-use IRC utility bot

2014-11-29 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Antoine Beaupré" * Package name: willie Version : 4.5.1 Upstream Author : Michael Yanovich, Edward Powell, Elad Alfassa... * URL : https://github.com/embolalia/willie * License : EFLv2 Programming Lang: Python Descri

Bug#771401: ITP: ruby-redis-rack -- Redis Store for Rack

2014-11-29 Thread Balasankar C
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Balasankar C * Package name: ruby-redis-rack Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Luca Guidi * URL : https://github.com/redis-store/redis-rack * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Redis Store for R

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of > services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus > starting to runlevels behaves completely different from what users > expect. > Well, I wouldn't expect runlevel 2 to start a graphical desktop eit