Joerg Schilling wrote: >> > The Debian people don't port to Solaris but to Linux. >> > >> > They even usually apply patches that cause the the software to >> > fail on any other platform because they don't care about other >> > platforms. >> >> They only care about Linux because it is the only well supported >> architecture inside Debian; it makes sense. > > This is a bit euphemistic...... > Don't look too much for Debian - we are a OpenSolaris community.
They care about their users. As long as they are using Linux, that is their only worry. If we push to change it, I mean, we make OpenSolaris a new working platform inside Debian, that will change. At that point, there will be people complaining about Debian because they support Linux and OpenSolaris but applies patches that break the FreeBSD support. I'm looking to Debian because I'm trying to sort the OpenSolaris scheme a little bit. Do Debian write its own software? or Fedora? or Gentoo? Why do we want to do everything by ourselves? Isn't it better to relay the packaging and distribution work on a consolidate community that has done a great work in the last years? > They (Debian) deliberately apply non portable patches on my software > and they did even complain when I rejected to include the patches > for the official release _because_ they would break the software. IMO each one played its role. They cared about Debian/Linux which is right thing to as long as it is the only real platform, and you cared about cdrecord rejecting those patches. It is the natural way, it can not see a big problem here. I didn't follow that much, so probably I'm missing something. -- Greetings, alo. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
