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Debian GNU/kFreeBSD may be dropped from Debian 8

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday October 08 2014, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the needs-a-systemd-port dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

According to an email sent to the Debian debian-devel-announce mailing list by Adam D. Barratt, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port is in grave danger of being dropped from the upcoming Debian 8 "Jessie" release. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD runs the GNU userland tools, the GNU C library and the Debian package set on top of the FreeBSD kernel.

Barratt states:

We remain gravely concerned about the viability of this port. Despite the reduced scope, we feel that the port is not currently of sufficient quality to feature as a fully supported release architecture in Jessie.

We therefore advise the kFreeBSD porters that the port is in danger of being dropped from Jessie, and invite any porters who are able to commit to working on the port in the long term to make themselves known *now*.

We will assess the viability of kFreeBSD in Jessie on or after 1st November, and a yes/no decision will be taken at that time.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Wednesday October 08 2014, @01:59AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @01:59AM (#103410) Journal

    Could this be related to increased workload due systemd adoption?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:59AM (#103426)

    Yes, I think it's safe to blame this on systemd and the disruption it has caused to the entire Debian ecosystem and community.

  • (Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Wednesday October 08 2014, @08:14AM

    by pe1rxq (844) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @08:14AM (#103477) Homepage

    Since systemd is closely tied to the linux kernel it would be very convenient for the maintainers if the only incompatible kernel in the debian ecosystem would disappear.