Re: Personal Introduction

[Samuel Thibault]

Brent W. Baccala, le jeu. 05 avril 2018 18:42:24 -0400, a ecrit:
> Also, I should mention that a major issue on the mailing list for the last two
> months has been upstreaming glibc.

You are FUD-ing a lot here.

> It's again related to how we interact with Debian.

Nope, not at all.

> There are so many Hurd-specific, Debian-specific changes to glibc,

Nope, they are not Debian-specific.  They are commited to our own repo
on Savannah.

git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/glibc.git

> that the Debian maintainers have threatened to drop us completely unless we 
> get
> our code upstreamed into the main glibc code base.

Nope. That never happened, you are completely inventing this.

What did happen is that upstream glibc said they'd really want to have
glibc master actually build on the Hurd (and even cross-build, which is
not the harder part) so that they can do build tests while revamping the
code.  That only just makes sense.

> I'm hoping the copyright assignment won't be an issue with the kernel proper,
> since it's based on Mach and isn't owned by the FSF, but I'm not 100% of that.

Mach is covered by copyright assignments too, only Mig is not.
The fact that the base code copyright isn't owned by the FSF doesn't
mean the changes can't be.

Samuel