This one time, at band camp, Henning Makholm said: > Scripsit Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> > > This one time, at band camp, Henning Makholm said: > > >> The announcement that actually got posted says that the only > >> architectures that will be allowed to have "testing" and eventually > >> "stable" after sarge releases will be i386, ia64, powerpc, and amd64. > > >> All other architectures have the "flexibility" to either stick with > >> unstable and only unstable, or leave the project. Boo-yeah. > > > No. The actual line is: > > > | We project that applying these rules for etch will reduce the set of > > | candidate architectures from 11 to approximately 4 [...] > > > "We project that the architectures that will have enough porter support" > > is not the same as "We refuse to allow any but the following". > > The point is still that some architectures are going to be left out in > the dark. That's the purpose of the whole plan. Only if those architectures don't have sufficient community support. I really cannot see the problem with that - you want to release architectures that aren't well supported as 'Debian stable'? I don't. Under the terms of the proposal as laid out, all 11 architectures shipping with sarge _could_ ship with etch (although they might not be mirrored so widely). It is just up to the porters to make sure this happens. > > It is not a pronouncement, it is proposal, > > And how does its being a proposal mean that it can't be criticized? > Indeed it is only because it is a proposal that it makes sense to > criticize it at all. Criticize away - just criticize what it actually says. I understand there is a lot of emotion around this issue, but it seems to me a lot of people are letting that emotion get in the way of a clear understanding of the proposal, and that's not helpful at all. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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