Mike Gabriel writes: > On Sa 09 Nov 2019 23:57:08 CET, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> The one thing I am against though is the non-Linux ports holding back >> innovation and experimentation on the Linux ports. If we go with the >> lowest common denominator, we can't realistically move forward, ever. > > I agree with that and at the same time think that we (Debian) should > do our best at being universal (that's what the upcoming vote is > about).
How so? Debian doesn't support multiple libc implementations. So it's already not universal if "universal" requires to always support alternative implementations. Nor does Debian (the released distribution) support non-Linux kernels. Nor does Debian support the various OpenSSL forks. We also have lots of software that requires Linux-specific functions and are not portable. So in many, many cases Debian has made the choice to only support one specific implementation of something. Ansgar