Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/14/2013 06:45 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: These aren't the only viable option and you know it. FYI, OpenRC port to Debian is doing well, and it is already able to boot a Debian system with current init script unmodified. Remaining to do: - support for update-rc.d - support for invoke-rc.d - f

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > OpenRC has already been discussed for Debian for over a year, it's > still not fully ported and working, yet you claim the port is doing > well. And even if ported and fully working it will still lack the features needed by a modern init system. Open

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz schrieb: > On 07/13/2013 11:46 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my >> third blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the >> Debian systemd survey: >> >> http://people.debian.org/~stapelber

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/14/2013 06:45 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >> These aren't the only viable option and you know it. FYI, OpenRC port to >> Debian is doing well, and it is already able to boot a Debian system >> with current init script unmo

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
* Marco d'Itri [2013-07-14 11:26:29 +0200]: > On Jul 14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > OpenRC has already been discussed for Debian for over a year, it's > > still not fully ported and working, yet you claim the port is doing > > well. > And even if ported and fully working it will sti

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Scott Kitterman: > Sorry, I can't quite let this pass. I just went and looked at the > AGPL v3 again and one implication of the license is that you can't > locally fix a security issue without immediate disclosure. This > doesn't fit my personal ethics at all and at least IMO makes it > pretty

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 14, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > > OpenRC is too little and too late, and it's a shame a GSoC project is > > wasted on this dead end. > It's a shame that such objections haven't been raised in a timely manner > and through the proper channels. I did it here and in #684396, so I think that

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 14, David Kalnischkies wrote: > At least I am seriously expecting that Debian isn't discarding the outcome > of a project it has officially endorsed to be under its umbrella for GSoC > without even the slightest bit of consideration. I am seriously expecting that Debian will not waste time

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/14/2013 01:09 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: At least I am seriously expecting that Debian isn't discarding the outcome of a project it has officially endorsed to be under its umbrella for GSoC without even the slightest bit of consideration. I didn't know that someone is working on OpenRC

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Kalnischkies: > GSoC in Debian was announced a long time ago, enough time to raise > any objections against any proposed project. Not really, a GSoC project doesn't come with any guarantee, implied or otherwise, that any deliverable is actually used by the mentoring organization. (Of the

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Игорь Пашев
Why not to use different init systems on different kernels? Debian already supports 3 (three) init systems *at once*, sysvinit, upstart, systemd. This is much harder that using single system. FYI, on Dyson [1] I've made dh_installinit noop, and working on dh-smf [2] [1] http://osdyson.org [2] ht

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/14/2013 04:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/14/2013 06:45 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> These aren't the only viable option and you know it. FYI, OpenRC port to >> Debian is doing well, and it is already able to boot a Debian system >> with current init script unmodified. Remain

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/14/2013 08:31 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 14, David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> At least I am seriously expecting that Debian isn't discarding the outcome >> of a project it has officially endorsed to be under its umbrella for GSoC >> without even the slightest bit of consideration. > I a

openrc packaging status (Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 14. Juli 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > yet there isn't any fully working implementation > I'm not sure what you call "fully working". one which is at least installable with apt-get + sid sources. that's still not the case, despite 684396 being announced here a year ago. cheers

Re: openrc packaging status (Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/14/2013 11:40 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sonntag, 14. Juli 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> yet there isn't any fully working implementation >> I'm not sure what you call "fully working". > > one which is at least installable with apt-get + sid sources. > that's still not the case

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/14/2013 01:09 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> >> At least I am seriously expecting that Debian isn't discarding the outcome >> of a project it has officially endorsed to be under its umbrella for GSoC >> without even the sl

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Kalnischkies: > >> GSoC in Debian was announced a long time ago, enough time to raise >> any objections against any proposed project. > > Not really, a GSoC project doesn't come with any guarantee, implied or > otherwise, that any de

DFSG claims BSD, not BSD 2/3-clause, is DFSG-free

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
Dear all, during my ongoing NM process, I have been asked to review several Debian documents and propose any changes I would like to see. While, to put it bluntly, I think the Debian Constitution is written somewhat sloppily, it's most likely not worth going through a GR to get what amounts to ja

Re: DFSG claims BSD, not BSD 2/3-clause, is DFSG-free

2013-07-14 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Perhaps you'd be interested in 20130105150458.ga6...@vasudev.homelinux.net Cheers, Paul On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Dear all, > > during my ongoing NM process, I have been asked to review several > Debian documents and propose any changes I would like to see. > >

Re: DFSG claims BSD, not BSD 2/3-clause, is DFSG-free

2013-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Richard Hartmann writes: > Something that _can_ easily be changed (afaik) is that the DFSG[1] > states that > 'The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that > we consider free.' > It's quite obvious that this refers to 2- and 3- clause BSD, not > 4-clause BSD. It is? The

Re: DFSG claims BSD, not BSD 2/3-clause, is DFSG-free

2013-07-14 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:36:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Richard Hartmann writes: > > > Something that _can_ easily be changed (afaik) is that the DFSG[1] > > states that > > > 'The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that > > we consider free.' > > > It's quite ob

Re: DFSG claims BSD, not BSD 2/3-clause, is DFSG-free

2013-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Richard Hartmann: > Something that _can_ easily be changed (afaik) is that the DFSG[1] states that > > 'The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that > we consider free.' > > It's quite obvious that this refers to 2- and 3- clause BSD, not > 4-clause BSD. The "BSD" hyperli

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Marco d'Itri wrote: being worked on by a student, so its too late to voice any concerns now as this is just slapping the student right across the face. Its at least I am quite sure that the quality of Debian and its continued viability as a modern OS is way more important t

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 14, Игорь Пашев wrote: > Why not to use different init systems on different kernels? Because it would be stupid, since it requires either one of: - implementing the equivalent of init scripts for each init system - dumbing down the init systems to the lowest common denominator (and when

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 02:38:02PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/14/2013 01:09 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > >At least I am seriously expecting that Debian isn't discarding the outcome > >of a project it has officially endorsed to be under its umbrella for GSoC > >without even t

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my > third blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the > Debian systemd survey: Well I am behind on my mailing list reading just at the time when it matters for my concerns for debian. I disagree with many of th

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 14, David Kalnischkies wrote: > But there is a difference between "not used after its done as the project > proofed that it is not able to deliver something more valuable" and > "saying midway that whatever the student does, it will be discarded". Whatever the student will do it cannot cha

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/7/14 Marco d'Itri : > which is a waste of time and adds code which cannot > be well tested. Isn't Debian itself is a waste of time, while we have RedHat? :-P Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! 2013/7/14 Paul Tagliamonte : > [...] > It's also about the *student*. We want more contributors. Why throw away > someone willing to do great work within Debian? > >> but just because a GSoC student is working on OpenRC in Debian >> doesn't make it any more appealing or sensible in my eyes. >

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Kevin Chadwick writes: > P.s. whenever I hear someone talk about Linux and Modern it is simply > proving to show that commenter's inexperience. Only idiots *require* > cgroups or parallelisation the latter being only required/beneficial > when the fastest bootup is required, which is almost never

/usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 08:19:58PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > since some people might not read planet debian, here is a link to my > > third blog post in a series of posts dealing with the results of the > > Debian systemd survey: > > Well I am behind on my mailing list reading just at the t

Bug#716924: ITP: hyperrogue -- non-euclidean graphical rogue-like game

2013-07-14 Thread chrysn
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: chrysn * Package name: hyperrogue Version : 3.7 Upstream Author : Zeno Rogue * URL : http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper.php * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : non-euclidean graphical rogue-lik

Re: [Popcon-developers] Encrypted popcon submissions

2013-07-14 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 15:32:15 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 02:33:57PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Hmm, do you have a reference? I've looked in the gnupg git master and > > stable-2.0 branches and I don't see any obvious mention of this on the > > NEWS file, or commi

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 13:09 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On 07/14/2013 06:45 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> > >> These aren't the only viable option and you know it. FYI, OpenRC port to > >> Debian is doing well, and it