linux_base-debian - going to 3.1?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 02:07:20PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:25:38PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Am Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:22:11 +0200 (CEST)
> > schrieb Marko Kuntic <mkuntic at mioc.hr>:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Are there any plans for upgrading the FreeBSD port of Debian Linux up to its 
> > > stable release (3.1) in the near future (like in time for the release of 
> > > FreeBSD 6.1)?
> > 
> > Very unlikely. The default linux_base is linux_base-8. Everything is
> > supposed to work with the default one. If it's doesn't break with
> > another linux base port, then you are free to feel lucky (there are
> > known bugs in non-default linux ports, the old maintainer wasn't
> > willing to fix them and insisted that the default linux base port is
> > changed to fit his style, ATM those non-default linux base ports are
> > unmaintained).
> > 
> > Some people are working on updating the default linux base to fc3. But
> > this will not happen before the release. We're holding back some
> > commits until the release is out of the door, since those commits would
> > change too much before the release.
> > 
> > Feel free to submit an update for the debian based linux base port, but
> > even if you do it *now* it will most likely not be available in the
> > release.
> 
> Definitely not; the package builds were complete and "carved in stone"
> some weeks ago.
> 
> What you say is correct though; the port is unlikely to be updated
> (and in fact is going to be scheduled for removal since it doesn't
> build properly) unless an interested user such as yourself takes it in
> hand.

By "yourself" I meant Marko.

Kris
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