Hi folks. I'm starting plans to port GNOME to the Debian GNU/k*BSD platform. Since GNOME components are generaly portable software and are also known to work well with Glibc, this won't be much of a major work.
The only significant porting issue is with updating libtool in all the packages containing an old version to a newer one that supports GNU/k*BSD. Currently 1.5.2-1 or later supports GNU/k*BSD, but you're strongly advised to use 1.5.6-1 or later which fixes other (unrelated) issues. Forwarding the task to upstream is also usualy a good idea. For details, see http://bugs.debian.org/242950. So if you maintain a library and/or are going to upload a library package soon, please take a minute to sort this out. Although this is a long-term plan, I'll eventualy be filing bugs for libtool updates on individual packages. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
