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.
Update to Glibc 2.16
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.
Support UEFI Secure Boot
Discussion thread here.
Proposal: Support booting with UEFI secure boot.
Owner: Olaf Kirch and Vojtech Pavlik
Status: Implementation.
Multiple Python runtimes
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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