Re: Future of kFreeBSD in Debian unstable
В Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:32:33 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt написа:
> But we would need people to commit to that: someone has to address
> issues that arise (these do not have to be Debian Developers, though
> ports should have at least some Debian Developers commit to them);
I'm not qualified to work on the toolchain and don't have special
sysadmin skills that are probably needed for a buildd maintainer.
However, I can work on bugs in specific packages with a certain degree
of stubbornness. My impression is that the majority of GNU/kFreeBSD
bugs are fairly trivial to fix like this one:
https://sources.debian.org/src/terminal.app/0.9.9-1/debian/patches/FTBFS-
kFreeBSD/
I first installed GNU/kFreeBSD some time after the first installation
instructions became available, but couldn't get it to boot. I made a
fresh reinstall following #593898. I felt guilty for losing Axel
Beckert's time so went on and installed kfreebsd-i386 on one of my
machines. I had to buy a LAN card as mine wasn't supported by the
kernel. I couldn't use it as my main workstation but that was mostly
because the machine was rather old and slow. I used it regularly for
several years to test packages (mostly GNUstep) until the HDD died.
Contrary to most people, my interest is philosophical, not technical.
> however with the kFreeBSD buildds gone, we would also need at least some
> people willing to maintain buildds (this is limited to Debian Developers
> as long as the port lives on ftp.debian.org).
As kfreebsd-* are probably never going to to be release architectures
due to systemd, maybe it is better to move the port to debian-ports.
At some point, it was evident that much more people were engaged with
GNU/kFreeBSD compared to GNU/Hurd. It is bewildering why human
resources have been in short supply lately.
> Currently no architecture-dependent packages get updated for kFreeBSD;
That's the beginning of the end, unfortunately. If the port is moved
elsewhere, does it have to be bootstrapped again or the wanna-build
database can be reused?
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