openSUSE:Goals 12.3

This page contains a number of suggested goals for openSUSE 12.3. Please only add stuff that has been discussed on the opensuse-factory mailing list

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Drop SysV init booting, use systemd

Discussion thread on opensuse-factory.

We had in both openSUSE 12.1 and 12.2 release systemd with SysV init as fallback, it's time to move on.

Proposal:

systemd will continue to support LSB init scripts
If a package contains both LSB init scripts and systemd service files, only the later one will be used by systemd and thus, this is the only one supported.
Packagers are encouraged to add systemd service files for their services.
We will not add a hard requirement to abandon LSB init scripts from packages for the next release.
Packages can take advantage of using systemd only.
remove SysV components that are not needed to boot the system with systemd
Packages should not install (IE, abort build) files in /etc/systemd, /etc/modules-load.d/ or /etc/tmpfiles.d/ .. and systemd units should never be marked as %config.

Owner: ???

Status: In discussion.

Discussion thread here.

Most significant changes:

Support for ISO C11
Many bug fixes for the math library thanks to a thorough audit of all open math library bugs. The results are mor accurate exceptions and function results.
Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 which also brings unified headers for x86 and x86-64 - so there are really the same headers for all three ABIs on x86-64.

Owner: Andreas Jaeger

Status: Done.

Discussion thread here.

Proposal: Support booting with UEFI secure boot.

Owner: Olaf Kirch and Vojtech Pavlik

Status: Implementation.

Discussion threads: (1) (2)

Proposal:

separate packages "python2.7", "python3.3" etc. for each new version
"python" metapackage depends on "python2" depends on "python2.7"
when the time comes, "python" switches to depending on "python3" depends on "python3.X" (not in scope of this proposal!)
building python2 and python3 packages from the same specfile
adopt Debian-style shared directory for version-agnostic python modules (viz), while still supporting version-specific packages

Owner: Jan Matejek

Status: planning

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