On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:00:05PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:38:57PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> was heard to say: > > Anyhow, I'm just get told on #debian-devel that the Hurd should be > > ported to Debian instead and Debian shouldn't change. They say policy > > is more important than ABI compatibility with existing systems. I wish > > the BSD people a lot of luck, I'm happy to be out of here. > > You didn't answer me on IRC and maybe you won't see this message, but: Sorry then, it's just that too many messages came to me and people where trying to make the point that I should go away, so I parted. It's not that I must give my opinion, I just think there is a possibility it's useful. > What existing Hurd distributions might Debian GNU/Hurd be incompatible > with, and what causes the incompatibility? As far as I know there is no > real usable Hurd system apart from Debian. The GNU system, commonly found in the gnu-0.2 directory. But that isn't a problem, we also have a *BSD system in Debian. We have to be compatible with that and libexec is part of the BSD ABI because the loader is located in libexec. For the nitpickers: FreeBSD kernel is already ITP'd, but of course it's not an existing port yet due to Debian bureaucracy. It's also not a released architecture, so some people here think you should give a damn fuck about it then, but I disagree. CC me please as I'm not subscribed any longer. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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