On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 08:18:18PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:01 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > When is amd64 going to be allowed to go into sid? It has been more or > > less ready to go into sid since mid Feb and seems to be primarily > > blocked on the fact that it is not an official Debian port yet. > > > I'm not sure amd64 is ready; dpkg support hasn't yet been put in a > release though it's now in CVS and build-essential hasn't been updated > with amd64 requirements, and none have been communicated to me. > > I outlined what I felt were the necessary steps over a month ago in > Bug#241689, and haven't seen any feedback from that. > > I'm not trying to block anything, the pure-amd64 architecture looks > pretty necessary (though nobody's donated me a machine yet *sniff* <g>) > but you can't just hope that all the required tools will get the support > you need at once. Since you are one of the dpkg maintainers can you upload a version with amd64 support? That solves the first part of the problem you mentioned in #241689 that you mention you told the user about over a month ago... Then we are back to needing to get amd64 into sid which you listed as step 2. Chris
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