* Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020427 14:57]: > We don't currently explain how to help us very well. Perhaps you can > guide us on this. I'd like to get some pages up that cover how to > help the Hurd porting effort. I don't know how to get this > information so that people uploading packages choose to read it. Part > of me wonders if the porting section of the Policy should refer to a > general porting document. I'm not thinking even just for us, but > generically things like understand the issues around 32->64 bit > pointer conversions, and issues the BSD folks will have too. > > Does this fit with what you're thinking?
Jeff, Now that Woody is sort of winding down, Raphael Hertzog and Adam Di Carlo started a discussion[1] on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that has expanded to talk about the Debian Developers Reference[2], Debian Policy[3], a new "dpkg reference manual" that's in the dpkg CVS (per Wichert) and new Debian "best packaging practices" documentation. This discussion is taking place on the debian-project (and debian-policy) mailing lists. Finding a place in this array of documentation for general porting issues would be ideal. These are documents all Debian developers are (should be?) familiar with. Shall we begin creating a list of porting issues? While there may be many they should be able to be categorized fairly well once we have them listed. Cheers, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian-project-200204/msg00076.html [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ [3] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ [4] http://cvs.debian.org/dpkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
