On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:50 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:31:00PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 01:14 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Alex Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Michael Banck wrote: > > > >> If so, do you plan to use Debian's mailing lists and bug > > > >> tracking system for development? > > > > > > > > No. We have ours: svn, Trac, and mailing lists. > > > > > > It's unlikely that you'll be accepted as an official Debian port unless > > > you're willing to use the Debian bug tracking system. It's not > > > reasonable to expect Debian maintainers to be willing to copy bugs to a > > > completely different bug tracking system in cases where it turns out to > > > be a Solaris-specific issue. > > > > on another hand, is Debian community willing to be not just GNU/Linux > > centric and put some work on GNU/Solaris too? If yes, we could > > re-consider. > > We do have non-Linux ports in the works (in various states of completion). > Typically they don't get released because there is insufficient interest to > get them to the quality level needed for a stable release. This lack of > interest probably stems from a "Linux is OK for me" viewpoint rather than an > "all these non-Linux ports are useless" opinion -- that is, apathy rather > than malice.
OK. May be I used too strong wording.. One of consideration on why we decided to go with Debian-technology at first place was the fact that Debian *is* a "system runtime" independent project. At least it was. But when we actually start looking into the details, we found it very GNU/Linux-centric except some absoutely core packages. > A released Debian/Solaris would, in all likelihood, enhance Debian in all > sorts of ways, like porting a regular program to 64-bit and big-endian > architectures cleans things up. And I believe OpenSolaris community will benefit too. > > on another hand, Ubuntu has its own tracking system, so GNU/Solaris is > > not the first one. Even though Ubuntu is GNU/Linux system... > > It's GNU/Linux, but not Debian. It's a derivative. The question here isn't > whether you want to use some Debian-derived technologies in your port (which > you're free to do with or without any input or cooperation with Debian > itself) but whether you want to be part of A Debian Release. Hard to say right now... Lets see how all this thing will progress. But, *yes* we are willing to cooperate. > > on another hand, GNU/Solaris uses different kernel and libc, which > > brings many non-Debian-related issues into play. > > Yeeeeehah! As I recall, there were plans to produce a non-glibc port of one > of the BSDs, so there's precedent at some level. Being > not-so-glibc-dependent would also benefit projects like the guys trying to > rebuild Debian for uclibc (or one of the other itty-bitty-libcs) for use in > the embedded space. true. there will be a lot of benefits for both communities. Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
