Re: [buildd] Etch?
Stephen R Marenka <stephen@marenka.net> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:03:53PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
>> > Might something be done within the debian infrastructure to assist those
>> > architectures that are excluded from the etch release, such that they
>> > could make a late release, without disturbing the current stable user base
>> > and without introducing the burden of out of tree packages?
>>
>> Hmm. Perhaps. Not much has been said about that, however; only some
>> handwaving, like "if necessary, we could do this or that"... we'll
>> probably be able to get something that may work out of talking to the
>> right people.
>
> I think it *can* be done, but I believe that is a discussion to have
> when we've proved we have a viable release candidate port. It's always
> possible that we can rejoin stable in a point release or some such.
This has been discussed for amd64 before. There will not be an
addition of archs in a stable point release. Either m68k gets into R0
or won't have an official etch release (but inofficial ones are
possible).
MfG
Goswin
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