Re: HURD/Linux/BSD* ... Loosing focus.
Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:
> Nope. The question is whether hurd should be debian compliant.
EVERYONE agrees that the Debian GNU/Hurd must be Debian compliant
before it is released. EVERYONE.
> Quite the opposite. I worry that debian/hurd will be gratuitously
> different from debian/linux in places where it doesn't have to be.
That's a very different question.
It's also vastly premature and pointless to discuss, given the
universal agreement to the answer for the first question.
> *We* agree here. But does everyone? There still is this fundamental
> question of whether the goal is Debian on hurd, or a Debian-branded
> version of GNU (which happens to include hurd but is not limited to
> that, and which implies that gnu standards should trump debian policy,
> rather than the opposite.)
What? The goal of the Debian Hurd project is Debian GNU/Hurd.
Nothing more, nothing less. And that it must certainly conform to
Debian policy--at the point at which it is released.
The GNU Coding Standards are about how people should *write* programs
for GNU. They are not about the same thing as the FHS; they have a
totally different domain. The Coding Standards *couldn't* trump the
FHS, even if someone wanted them to, because they are addressing
totally different problems.
Thomas
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