Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:24:42PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:35:33PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > >
> > > Debian will continue the Hurd/Mach port until a viable alternative
> > > exists, which will likely take a few years, if there will ever be one.
>
> hmmm... so how much of the Hurd/Mach port work comes from upstream and
> how much from debian? Is this an effort that has mostly been relegated
> to debian or does it continue upstream?
That depends on your understanding of the term "Hurd/Mach port". The
development of GNU Mach and GNU Hurd is mostly done upstream, whereas
porting packages (originally dpkg etc., nowadays stuff that doesn't
compile fine) and building new versions of packages is done by Debian.
On the other hand, the set of people working on both is quite
overlapping (some people work on both, some only on upstream or Debian),
so it is not making a lot of sense to really quantify this.
Michael
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