On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:55:32PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > we could get a list for that an generic porting discussion. where should > i ask for a new list of the Hurd project?
I am happy to have such a list for discussing that topic. I just don't know if the savannah interface for mailing lists in that regard is fully automatic. Jeff, do you know how this is done? > > The problem is that Debian bugs should never really go upstream. > > Debian's glibc is heavily modified to deal with the fact that we have > > ports that upstream doesn't actively care about (sh and hppa). Some of > > those changes involve some fairly invasive hacks. Certainly in the case > > of glibc, you risk facing the Wrath Of Drepper (sort of like the Wrath > > of Kahn, except that drepper always wins *g*) > > I see.. then maybe it's not a good idea to share porting-related libc > bugs with Gentoo. Well, otoh, the Hurd port of glibc is not modified in the Debian version IIRC (at least not the Hurd specific parts of it). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
