Re: ITP: fdisk-pc9800
At 19 Jun 1999 01:27:27 -0700,
Chris Waters wrote:
> Standard (and esp. required) is for stuff that *everybody* needs, not
> just everybody with a specific brand of hardware. Even if the package
> is required for that hardware.
Is Extra OK, even if this package must be needed by a installer
to partition a hard disk for NEC PC9800s?
> (Hardware as opposed to architecture, of course. If it's necessary
> for a given arch, then it should be Priority: required on that arch,
> but I'm assuming that the NEC PC9800 is arch i386, rather than being a
> whole new port of Debian.)
NEC PC9800 is arch i386, but it's nothing but i386(i.e NEC PC9800
has just i386 family as CPU), so some features are different from
PC/AT's i386. For example, the kernel, informations of partition etc...
But, most of binaries can work on it, of cource.
Or should we make new arch `binary-pc9800'?
But it faces many problems. So currently in Debian JP Project,
we have made new version `potato-pc98' so that what is needed
by only PC9800 such as fdisk98, grub98, kbd98 or xserver98 etc
is to be available only for PC9800's users.
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