On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:17, John Klos wrote: > Is one of the goals, stated or otherwise, of Debian to produce a > consistent source tree which is the same version across architectures? If > so, maybe there aren't that many m68k related problems. > > I suppose most of the work is going on in the architecture neutral parts > of Debian?
By and large, yes. The majority of Debian packages are architecture-agnostic, and are capable of at least being compiled on all our supported architectures. This doesn't necessarily mean that all programs will actually run properly on all architectures, but it's a start. p.