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

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: 2) by sjames on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:51PM

    by sjames (2882) on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:51PM (#110037) Journal

    I wouldn't worry about D, I'm fairly sure both vi and emacs will be included as hard dependencies in the next release.

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  • (Score: 2) by cykros on Wednesday October 29 2014, @02:38PM

    by cykros (989) on Wednesday October 29 2014, @02:38PM (#111170)

    That's probably true. Emacs, because systemd aspires to do everything, and Vim, because it also needs a decent text editor.