I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the
general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for
the port than "Debian GNU/NetBSD", both because it is more specific about
what's going on, and because it doesn't dilute the NetBSD trademark. While
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 02.12.03 21:51:20:
>
> I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the
> general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for
> the port than "Debian GNU/NetBSD", both because it is more specific about
If t
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:49:42PM +0100, Michael Ritzert wrote:
> Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 02.12.03 21:51:20:
> >
> > I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the
> > general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for
> > the
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the
> > general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for
>
Hi Joel,
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the
> general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for
> the port than "Debian GNU/NetBSD", both because it is more specific about
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the
> general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for
> the port than "Debian GNU/NetBSD", both because it is more specific about
> what's
There are very important technical reasons for these decisions, not only
"nomenclature correctness" stuff. Let me explain.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:33:22AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > uname -s: GNU/KFreeBSD
> Uhm. I'd have to turn on my box to
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:24:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> There are very important technical reasons for these decisions, not only
> "nomenclature correctness" stuff. Let me explain.
>
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:33:22AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > > uname -s: GNU/KFree
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:22:36AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> Indeed. As long as it's documented, people are probably going to be
> hand-selecting their APT entries, anyway, so it isn't such a big deal.
>
> [...]
> The Debian architecture will remain 'netbsd-i386', with the known issue
> that we'l
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:04:20AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:22:36AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > Indeed. As long as it's documented, people are probably going to be
> > hand-selecting their APT entries, anyway, so it isn't such a big deal.
> >
> > [...]
> > The Debi
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:46:05PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> >
> > Untill we resolve this, please take into consideration to avoid filing
> > patches
> > that use "netbsd-i386" in a way that breaks the other port. I've been
> > careful
> > to keep such incompatible patches without submitting, s
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:28:03PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:46:05PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > >
> > > Untill we resolve this, please take into consideration to avoid filing
> > > patches
> > > that use "netbsd-i386" in a way that breaks the other port. I've been
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:21:09AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
>
> Which works great, if it's libc-dev that's needed. It fails fairly
> severely, if a specific version of a library is needed due to, say, a fix
> in an included library that also requires a fix in the application.
>
> Not to mention p
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:22:36AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
>
> So. I propose the following, and, barring objections over the next week
> or so, I'll take steps to update what I can to reflect this:
>
> uname -s will remain 'NetBSD'.
>
> uname -v will continue to have distinguishing features (I
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