2012/7/18 peter green <[email protected]>: > >> Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian > > I don't think it will ever be in debian proper for a couple of reasons > > Firstly I think it would be very difficult to get the powers that be to > approve an arm arm variant in debian that mainly targets one device > (the impression I get is that other than the Pi and low end smartphones > armv6 is fairly uncommon)
Well, if raspberry brings thousands of users, why not? I think Debian can benefit from that. But it is my personal opinion... > Having said that I would certainly appreciate it if debian could do > things in a way that is more friendly to derivatives like raspbian. > In particular it would be very nice to have the defaults for gcc > set in a central place rather than duplicated across god knows > how many source packages (we have modified at least 6 so far > and I'm pretty sure I missed some). > Can one of Debian release goals (hardening buildflags) help with that? Thank you. Anton [1] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/SecurityHardeningBuildFlags -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALF6qJknJJJcsAjr2owJO+wiMLLYeqe7QWRiqdm1NKBwxvq=8...@mail.gmail.com
