Hi! Thinking about the Gentoo GNU/Hurd (whatever..) project, it seems that whereas Gentoo and Debian are "competing" projects, the Debian GNU/Hurd and Gentoo GNU/Hurd share one goal: to port a lot of software.
It'd be interesting if we could discuss some ways of cooperation between Debian GNU/Hurd and Gentoo GNU/Hurd projects for porting duties. This way we'll avoid horrible things like reporting the same bugs twice, discussing the same bugs twice and fixing the same bugs twice. Some questions i come up with: - where to discuss a porting problem? debian-hurd was typicaly used for that. a possibility is to use help-hurd for common porting problems and the specific lists for the distro-specific bugs. or perhaps we could create a common porting list? - how do we share patches? there are a lot of usable patches in the debian packages that haven't been forwarded upstream yet. there are more of them pending to be applied in the debian BTS. In principle, a Gentoo porter should look at these places if he/she wants to avoid duplicating work, but it'd be interesting to define a "protocol" on what to do with patches once they're made, to ensure everyone gets them. - what about API porting-related bugs in the Hurd and Glibc? the debian BTS entries for hurd, libc0.3 and libc0.3-dev contain porting-related bugs. (ala, "function foo(), needed for package bar, is broken or unimplemented") maybe we should copy and forward them to the Savannah BTS? -- Robert Millan make: *** No rule to make target `war'. Stop. Another world is possible - Just say no to genocide _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd