dists: sid, potato, unstable, and frozen...
A gentle reminder:
Note that at the moment there is no frozen distribution for Alpha.
The other three are all equivalent (well, sid is the real tree; potato
and unstable are symlinks to sid basically).
So, if you're doing porting for the Alpha, _PLEASE_ concentrate on
porting the slink packages, instead of the potato ones. We're trying
to get a Debian/Alpha 2.1 release out, so we must make sure that there
are no versions in there that are _higher_ than the i386 packages!
Of course, I can understand exceptions such as versions from potato that
work on Alpha where the slink versions don't; and very maybe packages
that don't exist at all in slink, but otherwise, try to restrain yourself :-)
On the other hand, having an Alpha machine available for general use by
debian developers seems to have helped; there are now only 118 packages
not compiled for Alpha, of which a number may not be portable to Alpha
anyway; and 192 packages out of date (which shouldn't be hard to trim
down, as most just have a debian revision change, not new upstream
source). Let's get those numbers down! (Except Chris: you concentrate
on the compilers etc :-)
Paul Slootman
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