** On Jan 16, Hamish Moffatt scribbled: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:06:48PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > ** On Jan 15, Hamish Moffatt scribbled: > > > No, Debian (a software project) is about developing an OS, not > > > about providing access to machines. The machines are only a tool > > > for developing the distribution. > > yes, but you can't expect all the maintainers hava a park of machines of all > > architectures. And yet, the Debian OS runs different kernels and on > > different architectures. The conclusion is obvious. > > The obvious conclusion is that you did not understand my comment. Be it. > You are not expected to have the complete set of Debian provided machines. Good. > Debian will provide access to other platforms for the purpose of > Debian development work. Access to those machines is a tool for > developing the distribution; it is not a reason to join Debian > in itself. I never, _never_, said that. It was an argument why the account is needed. > You don't have to compile packages for other architectures yourself, > either. The autobuilders do that, much easier than your or I can do it by hand. They don't fix bugs for me. If I want my software to work on a different architecture and the software has some architecture dependent things, _and_ I don't have machines of that architecture available, but Debian as a project has them, then I do need the account to make the software work OK. And no autobuilder will guarantee that. Please, let us not make another flamewar out of this issue - it was just a single argument among others (and not the most important one). marek -- Visit: http://caudium.net - the Caudium WebServer /* A completely unrelated fortune */ * bma is a yank * Knghtbrd is a Knghtbrd * dhd is also a yank * Espy is evil * Knghtbrd believes Espy
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