Hi, Thanks for taking the time for this!
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 18:42:45 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: important > Tags: patch > [(X-Debbugs-)CCing the porters' list] >ยท > The Debian GNU/kNetBSD port is referred incorrectly as "GNU/NetBSD". > I assume this mistake was not intentional and the pages just haven't > been updated for a while. No, the port is correctly referred, becuse it's based on the NetBSD libc and BSD userland. So it's not like in the GNU/k*BSD ports which we explicitely specify that we are using only the kernel from the *BSD and not a more complete BSD system. > By contrast, this is not the case with kfreebsd-gnu -- the GNU/kFreeBSD > folks have been referring to the system with its proper name (also on > wiki.d.o). We (the GNU Webmasters) would be grateful if this issue > is fixed, so that we can amend the last paragraph of [1] in a similar > fashion like [2]. > Please consider applying the attached patch. The GNU/kNetBSD has been in lethargy for some time now, we just focused our energies in GNU/kFreeBSD, we might come back to it maybe once GNU/kFreeBSD has been officially merged into Debian as a proper port, and if there's developer interest. By then I'd agree to add the new port on the webpages as knetbsd-gnu alongside knetbsd-gnu, or it might make sense to consider the old port deprecated (with permission from the GNU/NetBSD porters) and fix the webpages. > Also, I was wondering why the knetbsd-gnu ports are still called > netbsd-i386 and netbsd-alpha (i.e. without the "k" prefix)? Is this > for historical reasons? dpkg-architecture lists both variants. That's also related to it being a different port and having a different GNU triplet. thanks, guillem
