Re: J1 CD images
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > I can almost make baseHurd.tgz. The following packages are missing from
> > my list.
>
> > gnumach (FMI, did this need to be rebuilt?)
>
> Nope. But it will have been wiped out with the archive purge. I will
> produce a new one this evening.
I thought this might be the case.
> > libc0.2
>
> What's asking for this? Nothing in the archive should be asking for
> libc0.2 now, but instead should be asking for libc0.3.
Using old lists.
> > libreadline4
> > libstdc++2.10
>
> I'll look into these later (unless Marcus beats me to it)
>
> > Three questions.
>
> > Will alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian packages need to be reviewed?
>
> Certainly. It will probably grow, since for some critical packages we
> used to be willing to do slight source hacks in order to make it
> compile. We no longer will do that. That means that various packages
> (even if really important) will wind up in there.
>
> I'm hoping that when people show up and say "How can I help", that we
> can say go to alpha:/gnu/hurd/debian, pick a package, and write
> patches that get it out of there, and submit them upstream.
Thanks, I will keep a close eye on it.
> > What is happening with non-US?
>
> I will continue to build that on my buildd.
>
> > What is happening with contrib?
>
> I will not be building contrib or non-free. Note that Debian policy
> allows us to have it, so if others feel like uploading them and
> maintaining them, they will go into the archive.
>
This makes things a little simpler for me.
Phil.
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