On 24/11/2013 06:02, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Take that up with FreeBSD Project, the upstream of the FreeBSD kernel. > There is nothing that Debian can do here. > > Debian simply takes upstreams and puts them together in a usable > binary distribution.
Furthermore, we have very good relation with the FreeBSD project. They often help us with problems that affect our port. We contribute back with bug reports, patches/bugfixes and feedback of janitor tasks done in Debian (e.g. ABI stability in freebsd-libs). There's no use in keeping all this to ourselves. The patchset is still quite large. I've done a lot of work in reducing it over the past years. Part of it involved the creation of a lot of glue code/headers (c.f. freebsd-glue), and part of it involved working with upstream to get our patches merged. Overall, I think this has proven quite useful in making updates manageable. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
