On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:36:35AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I can understand that certain packages, like inet-utils for example, > cannot be ported to Debian GNU/Hurd and thus need to be packaged > separately.
Actually, the GNU inetutils package has the same roots as the Linux netkit package. But while the BSD netkit only runs on BSD, and the Linux netkit only runs on GNU/Linux, the GNU inetutils package runs on GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, QNX and Cygwin32 (all of these are frequently tested, although I think QNX and Solaris were not tested for the next release). While I only did a quick-hack packaging of GNU inetutils for the Hurd, Jeff Bailey has dramatically improved it for Debian in general, and I am forward for his inetutils packages so I can install them on my Debian GNU/Linux system (he is waiting for the woody freeze to end before uploading the new versions). > But that does not go for the filesystem. Debian GNU/Hurd > will still be Debian; If GNU doesn't like that, then GNU must make > it's own Hurd-distribution, and not try to change Debian. I hope nobody forgets that I was a Debian member over a year before I got my GNU account. You make it sound as if there is a hard line with Debian on the one side, and GNU on the other, but there is no such line. Many people are members of GNU and Debian, including, but not limited to, a lot of the Hurd people (including its two major authors). But I am not shy to try to change Debian where I think the change is an improvement. And I am not shy to give Debian a personality that makes Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd people happy. At least I will try to. I am a bit surprised about all those "if you want to be different, go away" responses lately. "Debian" as a whole of course has to decide if it wants to stay Debian GNU/Linux solely and only worry about that, or reach a broader level of abstraction. While the inclusion of Debian GNU/Hurd might just have been an overseight, the inclusion of the BSD ports makes it more of a pattern in my eyes, so the decision already seems to have been made. People should not be terribly surprised that catering for three different operating systems requires new solutions to old problems than catering for one operating system does. Such dramatic developments are stressing and require patience on everyone's side. But if we are determined, we can do it, and hopefully without getting in your way personally and in each others way generally too much. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]