Re: arch-specific packages and the new SCC requirements

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG writes:
> > The Debian Hurd project has another category that should be excluded
> > because they are kernel-specific.  (The current list on the web page is
> > update, makedev, ld.so, modconf, modutils, netbase, pcmcia-cs, procps,
> > ppp, pppconfig, setserial.
> 
> Pppconfig is not kernel-specific.  It's just a little Perl program that
> edits some PPP files.  While I have never tried it, I see no reason why it
> wouldn't work on Solaris or BSD.
> 
> I'm quite surprised that the Hurd still doesn't support PPP.

pppconfig is for the ppp package, which is kernel specific, and Hurd
ppp support needs to be a totally different way.

Supporting PPP is a very low priority.  Which isn't the point; the
point is that the "ppp" package is kernel-specific.

Thomas