Re: portability as a goal for debian?
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:28:25PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> Most apps are written for 32-bit archs...that's just a
> fact....and most of the time, if one of the 64-bit arch folks doesn't
> write in the correct code or fix the software in some other way, it just
> doesn't get ported. In short, we do quite a bit of work-arounds every
> day. I don't see this as being any different really.
But when you do write the correct code, it tends to be accepted upstream
because it's better code.
I would not accept a patch to my debian/rules that deals with xargs
not accepting -r. I would tell the submitter to get a better xargs.
And that's the sort of thing we're talking about for portability
to OpenBSD.
Richard Braakman
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