Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts
Agreed. To think otherwise is silly.
As I am about to swith to Alpha, I have a conern: I maintain some
dozen or so packages, currently under i386. There are people that go
around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody
goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for i386! So if
I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha will have
the current versions, and perhaps the Sparc and m68k too, but i386
will be obsolete! Fix anybody?
John
Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:
> 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.
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