Hello!
I would like to hear your opinion on Debian's kernel ports. Both the Hurd and *BSD ports are likely to be ready for release on woody+1 (sarge?), but there are serious difficulties originated in the Debian archive structure and dpkg's way of handling architectures. In other words, the Architecture tag, which has served well to maintain separate architecture ports of Debian, is not flexible enough to handle kernel ports properly. Nor is a kernel: tag I sent a wishlist item to dpkg for some time ago (#118910) We are going to need important changes in the archive system to obtain a complete Debian GNU/Hurd or Debian GNU/*BSD distribution. To get an idea on the scope of these changes, you can refer to this document written by Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt However, this document is not a definitive proposal. Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on a new document on the same line and will likely speak about it after the woody release. My questions for the three candidates are: What is your personal opinion on those ports? Will you support the above mentioned changes? Thank you very much for your attention, please keep the CCs to debian-hurd and debian-bsd Cheers, -- ---------------------------------------------------- Robert Millan Debian GNU/* user zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ ----------------------------------------------------
