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Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts



At 12:30 +0200 1998-10-14, Paul Slootman wrote:
On Mon 12 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
:-)   debian/i386 is also a port!

No. For 90% (I think more) of the packages it is the primary architecture.
The word "port" implies carrying to _another_ architecture. Hence the
package on the primary architecture is _not_ a port.

To me it is a port, a port of Debian GNU/Linux.
--
Joel Klecker (aka Espy)
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>        <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
  Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc.
<URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>  <URL:http://www.debian.org/>


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