+1, many thanks! (Re: GCC-15 mass bug filing.)

2025-02-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:32:08PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I for one appreciate this sort of early warning. It's much easier to > deal with failures like this promptly before they become a serious > problem, rather than having to disentangle things later when several > different failures have

Thanks for sqv in apt

2025-01-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi. I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who have contributed to the fact that apt now verifies packages with Sequoia (sqv) by default. I know I will have missed some people, hence the CC to -devel and to the Debian Rust team. And thanks of course are also due to all the upstream

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve Langasek dijo [Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 01:53:02PM -0700]: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:25:50PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > IMHO, it's better to have a vote quickly on a limited set of GR options, > > > with the possibilit

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:25:50PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > IMHO, it's better to have a vote quickly on a limited set of GR options, > > with the possibility of a second GR if there is sufficient dissatisfaction > > with the fi

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > I have to say I'm a bit disappointed to read some wants to change the > voting system because of what happened during this GR. Yes, the voting > system should be improved if it is possible to do so. But this GR > shouldn't be the main reason/motivation. There are a few d

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:04:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> * A formal amendment has to be sponsored like a new GR before it can be >> accepted, but the original proposer of a GR can make their own amendment >> without having it be sponsored. These two rules ma

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Ansgar
Simon Richter writes: > A core component of the operating system we ship is so complex that it > needs to be maintained by full-time employees. This has effectively given > the corporation employing these people veto power over our technical > decisions, because even though the software they ship i

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:45:29PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Debian is a political project that promotes the autonomy of users vis-a-vis > > large organizations such as corporations and governments. It does this by > > promoting the creation of free software, and by fostering a community

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2021-04-20 12:44, Adrian Bunk wrote: A single person being able to block consensus of basically everyone else feels like opening up the process to unconstructive behavior. A single person whom we trust to upload anything to our archive.[1] If the person thinks there is something left that

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:58:51AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > 4) It seems like there is an emerging consensus that we want either all > votes secret or to be able to have secret non-DPL votes. I dispute this statement. Some people said that. I disagree that voting secrecy is (sensibly) possible.

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Timo Röhling
* Wouter Verhelst [2021-04-20 13:50]: Not sure whether you consider this an issue, but I don't see that as a problem. There is a difference between "we can't reach an agreement and therefore decide on a no-outcome vote" (which the default option is), and "we have considered all the options and d

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:04:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Carter writes: > > > I think that framing the problems and noting them while the last GR is > > still fresh in our collective memories will be really useful. I don't > > think anyone should feel too much pressure right now t

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Eduard, On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:49:56PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Make no mistake, the quest to have "apolitical" free software is deeply > > political in itself: the process that decides which group can establish > Sorry, by your definition there is no way to escape from political >

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:59:31AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2021-04-20 10:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I would suggest to replace the option of shortening the discussion > > period with the possibility of early calling for a vote after a week > > that can be vetoed by any developer within 24 h

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-20 Thread Ansgar
Philipp Kern writes: > On 2021-04-20 10:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> I would suggest to replace the option of shortening the discussion >> period with the possibility of early calling for a vote after a week >> that can be vetoed by any developer within 24 hours. This would ensure >> that shorter dis

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2021-04-20 10:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: I would suggest to replace the option of shortening the discussion period with the possibility of early calling for a vote after a week that can be vetoed by any developer within 24 hours. This would ensure that shorter discussion periods would only happen

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:04:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >... > * The length of the discussion period is ill-defined in multiple ways, > which has repeatedly caused conflicts. It only resets on accepted > amendments but not new ballot options, which makes little logical sense > and cons

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 4/20/21 12:10 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: > Instead, some people viewed this as an election about how neutral Debian > should be. Some people viewed it as a discussion of how much we should > support rms. > Some people focused on what we should say about rms. > And that's okay. > We'll never entirel

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
he constitution, Steve could have made it > more difficult for other people to revise the wording of their ballot > options. > Those are the sorts of abuses I'm talking about. > None of those happened in this election as far as I am aware. Ah in that case I completely misunderstood

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-19 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Carter writes: Jonathan> On 2021/04/19 20:18, Daniel Leidert wrote: >> The vote was actually two votes: >> >> a) Should Debian respond publicly as a project? (the "if) b) How >> should such a response read? (the "how") Jonathan> I agree with

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >... > IMHO, it's better to have a vote quickly on a limited set of GR options, > with the possibility of a second GR if there is sufficient dissatisfaction > with the first GR outcome, than to have community energy spent endlessly on

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:37:01PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, Hi Simon, > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:56:34PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Is it really still an open question whether Debian is a political > > project that has opinions on non-technical topics like the board of the > > FS

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Carter writes: > I think that framing the problems and noting them while the last GR is > still fresh in our collective memories will be really useful. I don't > think anyone should feel too much pressure right now to come up with > solutions, and I'd urge any group of people who are bra

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Russ On 2021/04/19 21:36, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm helping hash out some ideas in private only because framing the > problem and brainstorming possible solutions requires a ton of back and > forth... I think that framing the problems and noting them while the last GR is still fresh in our col

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonathan Carter (2021-04-19 20:37:32) > On 2021/04/19 20:18, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > The vote was actually two votes: > > > > a) Should Debian respond publicly as a project? (the "if) > > b) How should such a response read? (the "how") > > I agree with you, I've said something similar b

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > Our current processes work best, I believe, if proposals are written in > the open, so that if people disagree with the proposed texts, they can > start working on their amendment right away, which is much more > difficult to do under the time pressure of a GR procedure.

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:58:51AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > 1) The person who introduces a GR is treated differently than anyone who > introduces an amendment in ways that are odd, and are subject to > strategic abuse. This asymmetry guards against a GR discussion being allowed to continue inde

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Simon Richter [Mon, Apr 19 2021, 06:37:01PM]: > Make no mistake, the quest to have "apolitical" free software is deeply > political in itself: the process that decides which group can establish Catch 22? Sorry, by your definition there is no way to escape from political discussions. No

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/19 20:18, Daniel Leidert wrote: > The vote was actually two votes: > > a) Should Debian respond publicly as a project? (the "if) > b) How should such a response read? (the "how") I agree with you, I've said something similar before, although instead of saying it was two votes, I'd rath

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Sam, On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:58:51AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > Certainly in the systemd process there were a number of short comings > that came to light that are worth improving: > > 1) The person who introduces a GR is treated differently than anyone who > introduces an amendment in way

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, dem 19.04.2021 um 11:30 +0800 schrieb Benda Xu: [..] > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on this > issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such > non-technical affairs. That's neither what the option said nor was intended for. The vote wa

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group

2021-04-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, dem 18.04.2021 um 14:04 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Carter: [..] > While this vote caught a lot of heat, essentially it's quite a trivial > vote. I think this is wrong. And here is why: > Ultimately it had become a question of if and how we should > respond to an external situation. The

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Theodore" == Theodore Ts'o writes: Theodore> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:05:20PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:30:48AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: >> > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on >> this > issue" implies that the

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:56:34PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Is it really still an open question whether Debian is a political > project that has opinions on non-technical topics like the board of the > FSF or the legal status of Taiwan, Palestine and Kosovo, or whether > Debian is a techni

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:05:20PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:30:48AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on this > > issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such > > non-technical affairs. >

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 19 avril 2021 à 14:05 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:30:48AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on > > this > > issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such > > non-technical affairs.

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:30:48AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on this > issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such > non-technical affairs. The vote in fact shows the opposite. That interpretation of the result woul

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 2021-04-19 02:46, Brian Thompson wrote: Is it really still an open question whether Debian is a political project that has opinions on non-technical topics like the board of the FSF or the legal status of Taiwan, Palestine and Kosovo, or whether Debian is a technical project where peo

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 2021-04-19 08:57, Jonathan Carter wrote: That's more than just a big assumption, I'd go as far to say that it's a big leap to assume that from that option. Additionally, you're assuming that that attempts to fix the problems in our voting system would somehow make us more political? How do

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Benda On 2021/04/19 05:30, Benda Xu wrote: > I would like to congratulate you for becoming our next DPL. Thanks! >> However, I don't think we're quite in a position to pat ourselves on >> the back here. This vote has once again highlighted some problems in >> o

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
Hi, > Benda Xu 於 2021年4月19日 11:40 寫道: > > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on this > issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such > non-technical affairs. Such a working group will distract us from > achieving technical excellence. > Most of th

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Carter writes: > On 2021/04/18 13:20, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> The details of the results are available at: >> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 > > Thanks for all your work on this vote, I believe that you made exc

RE: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Brian Thompson
all day, every day.  The last thing people want to do is contribute to a project in their free time that does the same thing. -Brian Thompson  Best regards, Brian Thompson From: Donald NorwoodSent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 5:54 PMTo: Adrian Bunk; debian-devel@lists.debian.orgSubject: Re: Thanks and De

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Donald Norwood
On 4/18/21 9:56 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Is it really still an open question whether Debian is a political > project that has opinions on non-technical topics like the board of the > FSF or the legal status of Taiwan, Palestine and Kosovo, or whether > Debian is a technical project where people of

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 14:04 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > However, I don't think we're quite in a position to pat ourselves on the > back here. This vote has once again highlighted some problems in our > methods for making decisions. I think that we should set up a working > group to specifica

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 02:04:38PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: >... > While this vote caught a lot of heat, essentially it's quite a trivial > vote. Ultimately it had become a question of if and how we should > respond to an external situation. I think that as Debian grows, as the > free software

Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Kurt On 2021/04/18 13:20, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > The details of the results are available at: > https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 Thanks for all your work on this vote, I believe that you made excellent decisions as project secretary and it seems th

Thanks again for autopkgtest testing migration gating.

2018-07-09 Thread Ian Jackson
I just wanted to say thank you again for getting this working. I know I have been sending a lot of messages about how things can be improved. That doesn't really reflect how good a change this has been. Now, when I have a package with a good test suite, development speed is very substantially in

[OT] Thanks for your QA work (Was: Please do not drop Python 2 modules)

2018-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
me to the conclusion that this must be a bot (wondering how the bot would be even able to create patches). So its really a human beeing. Than thanks for all the very helpful QA work. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive

2016-12-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14534 March 1977, Ian Jackson wrote: >> If everybody agrees that >> - new versions of packages shall be only uploaded to experimental >> - uploads to testing will only be done on request of the RT or with >> really new packages >> - everything else can be rejected >> processing would b

Re: Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive

2016-12-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Thorsten Alteholz writes ("Re: Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive"): > On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > This was problematic for me. (upstream) Development doesn't stop when > > then next stable freeze. > > If everybody agrees that >

Re: Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive

2016-12-27 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Thomas and Ian, thanks a lot for your kind words. On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Thomas Goirand wrote: However, after the deep freeze, we saw the queue getting bigger and bigger. The graph for Jessie shows up to 600+ packages in the queue. For good reasons the Release Team does not want to have

Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive

2016-12-24 Thread Ian Jackson
I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the quick response from ftpmaster at the moment. Particularly, the 19.5h turnaround for my most recent NEW package, which I uploaded on Thursday - more in hope than in expectation. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emai

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges > uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" > is a nice boost to troop morale. :)

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges > uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" > is a nice boost to troop morale. :) I

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Hands
Matthias Urlichs writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands: >> It seems to me that we could: >> >> Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 & 5 to >> multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less >> confusing to outsiders, how about: >> 2 & 5 --> graphical >>

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Philip Hands: > It seems to me that we could: > > Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 & 5 to > multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less > confusing to outsiders, how about: > 2 & 5 --> graphical > 3 & 4 --> multi-user > Or we could

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

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: 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: 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

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, 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. If anything, IMHO using words like "bizarre" isn't exactly

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:33:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if >> just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out >> they were right: We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulatio

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Le vendredi 28 novembre 2014, 22:25:28 Marc Haber a écrit : > We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulation, > and this does actually break the distinction between multi-user.target > and graphical.target. Hi, Here is a native kdm service I'v copied from an other distro months ago; and use

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:55:42 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric >> community. > >I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'm not >sure if this jab at F

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Marc Haber writes: > A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if > just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out > they were right: We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulation, > and this does actually break the distinction between mu

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric > community. I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'm not sure if this jab at Fedora is particularly warranted. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's >> going to be a gazillion times more painful. >> >Why? (Seriously.) Because this time fixing those things is more than just minor changes in some init

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's > going to be a gazillion times more painful. > Why? (Seriously.) -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:50:08 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package >> sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu >> PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie e

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 nov 14, 15:06:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > It's also not the worst idea to remove stuff from third party > repositories before upgrading and only install them again after the > upgrade. This way you can sure that they aren't interfering (something > which can't be prevented and just

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package > sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu > PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie etc.) from wheezy to jessie. That's probably why you had issues

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Tomas, Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" is a nice boost to troop morale. :) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:22:14PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Allthough apt-get dist-upgra

successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello list, I hope it's appropriate here, I just wanted to say *thanks to everybody*, in particular the low level package and infrastructure maintainers for the excellent work they've done. Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package sources and inst

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-18 Thread Ondřej Surý
I think all have been said, so I will just join this with +1. Cheers, Ondrej On Sun, Nov 9, 2014, at 02:08, Russ Allbery wrote: > zlatan writes: > > > In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am > > writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker. > > [...]

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-18 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Joey, Am 2014-11-07 22:04, schrieb Joey Hess: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Shocking. Thanks for all the great stuff you did and do, from a

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 07 November 2014 17:04:10 Joey Hess wrote: > It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I > originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish > everyone well, but I'm out. I'm very sorry to read this. We'll miss you. All the best -- https://githu

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-10 Thread Amaya
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > So you still could (and perhaps should[0]) reconsider not to leave > Debian. > Guess you've read the lists and saw how many people were emotionally > hit and upset about this. Joey, I beg you too. Please reconsider. Still, if it's not fun anymore by all means run

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-10 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey Joey, On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 06:12:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Please take that message with a pound of salt. I was upset when I wrote > it, it's probably not accurate, and I've left[1] for reasons that are > much more broadly structural, and are certianly not the fault of the > technical

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faidon, On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > Extremely sad to read this, Joey. +1 I personally feel like loosing a friend. If I imagine myself to leave Debian I would leave a major part of my life and I guess its similar for Joey and that the decision was ha

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 22:38 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > I can completely understand why we (and that includes me) want systemd > as a default: it gives the best possible integration of desktop > components possible. I even think it's best on a server (that means, if it was used as it could be)..

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I > originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish > everyone well, but I'm out. see shy jo :( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I've left[1] + >Almost. So you still could (and perhaps should[0]) reconsider not to leave Debian. Guess you've read the lists and saw how many people were emotionally hit and upset about this. (well I think it's worth a try ^^) Cheers, Ch

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Gilbert wrote: > How can you possibly think no more need said? You are one of four > complicit in the act that finally pushed Joey over the edge [0]. > > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/11/msg00045.html Please take that message with a pound of salt. I was upset when I wrote

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Игорь Пашев
2014-11-10 0:38 GMT+03:00 Simon Richter : > automake With autotools one can always use plain shell code in configure.ac and plain make in Makefile.am ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 09.11.2014 04:57, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > In the end it's quite easy: sysvinit has many deficiencies ans > missing feature, systemd is superior in all places. - From your perspective. I can completely understand why we (and that in

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2014-11-09 18:19, Adam Borowski wrote: And since changing the init system on existing installations is an important _technical_ problem, it is in scope for the CTTE. Where does the constitution make "important technical problems" in scope for the tech committee? (Not being awkward, but th

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 12:54:39PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Jung wrote: > > I read Joey's message over and over without getting any more clues. He > > said the CTTE has "Decided it should make a decision", which it seems to > > me it did not. So I probab

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Jung wrote: > I read Joey's message over and over without getting any more clues. He > said the CTTE has "Decided it should make a decision", which it seems to > me it did not. So I probably misunderstood something more fundamental here. Read all of #762194 ve

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, On 09/11/14 07:28, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >>> No accusation, just a statement of fact. Four ctte members were >>> complicit in the vote [0] >> >> Well maybe I read t

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 08 novembre 2014 à 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > No, the fire is not systemd, it is the politicization of the project > via ctte and GR rather than patient evolution of the best technical > solution. You are definitely right. However, I think we would all appreciate if you co

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/08/2014 at 10:57 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > In the end it's quite easy: sysvinit has many deficiencies ans > missing feature, systemd is superior in all places. On 11/09/2014 at 12:01 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > All of these systems were capable of booting a Linux,...

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Sad news. I wish you all the best for your future endeavours. I hope to cross paths with you from time to time (maybe I should tidy up my half finished ikiwiki patches!) The coincidental timing of Colin leaving the tech-ctte did make me wonder how different things would be if we could have coerced

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> No accusation, just a statement of fact. Four ctte members were >> complicit in the vote [0] > > Well maybe I read that ruling wrong, but didn't it more or less say > "we

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > No accusation, just a statement of fact. Four ctte members were > complicit in the vote [0] Well maybe I read that ruling wrong, but didn't it more or less say "we're not deciding anything right now"? And even if that decision would be

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 22:32 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> You are one of four >> complicit in the act that finally pushed Joey over the edge [0]. > > Don't you think it goes a bit far to personally accusing some people of > this?

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 22:32 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > You are one of four > complicit in the act that finally pushed Joey over the edge [0]. Don't you think it goes a bit far to personally accusing some people of this? I guess Joey was long enough in the business to have known how to deal wi

Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > zlatan writes: > >> In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am >> writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker. > > [...] > > And yet, I don't see how it could have been said better. Thank you so > much f

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
zlatan writes: > In advance sorry for all spelling mistake that I will write as I am > writing from my phone and I am not a native English speaker. [...] And yet, I don't see how it could have been said better. Thank you so much for putting this into words. > I just want the warm community fe

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