Minutes of GNU/kFreeBSD IRC meeting 20050605

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:31:25PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:58:45PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > * aurel32 & braindmg:   adopt packages from nyu
> Done.
> 
> Note that concerning freebsd-buildutils, since we already have
> freebsd5-buildutils, I have asked for removal instead of adopting
> it.

There isn't much usable changes in that package.  The idea was that
freebsd-buildutils (and kfreebsd6) were going to be the "trunk" packages
where most packaging development happens, but eventualy I found myself
pushing the changes from the 5.x parts instead.

They're quite outdated now.  I wouldn't advocate for removal but at least
for not using them untill most users switch to 6.x.

I think we've never discussed this before though.  In the beginning I wanted to
provide two branches as upstream does, but 4.x wasn't suitable for my taste (no
devfs, no ufs2, a few abi breaks with 5.x).  Do you plan to provide 6.x for
etch, or only if 5.x has become obsolete?

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Robert Millan