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Re: Question to the candidates: inclusion of the kFreeBSD-* ports



On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:13:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> But what I mean is more that maintaining two simple Debian patches (one
> for Linux, one for kFreeBSD) is probably simpler than maintaining one
> complicated Debian patch (with some conditional make cruft). And probably
> more importantly, it means that you can do immediately upload stuff for
> kfreebsd without *any* risk of breaking the Linux version. And even if
> you do autoimport patches from Linux to kFreeBSD, you have the option
> of not uploading the source for BSD unless it does actually build for BSD.

All this applies to the Hurd, and yet, it is an official port.

Mike



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