Re: portability as a goal for debian?
Robert Norris <rob@nauseum.org> writes:
> As I see it, Debian is an operating system in its own right. It uses
> Linux (or the Hurd) as its kernel, with a (mostly) GNU userspace.
Policy is a lot of it.
You can use any tool and depend on any userspace in debian, if only
you declare a depency on it (which happens packagewise). I see no
reason not to allow a depency on fileutils-bsd, if there were such
package, but the same package name/version should provide the same
functionality on every Debian platform.
So if you're depending om make.deb you can use GNU extensions because
the make packages is GNU make.
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