Re: Support for amd64 on ftp.debian.org?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:03:14AM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> > We do presently have a pure64 environment that is mostly usable and
> > complete enough to meet the standards for having something in
> > ftp.debian.org. We also have the biarch64 environment that is probably
> > not ready for this yet.
>
> What standards are you referring to? IIRC, back before "sid" meant
Please see:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200402/msg00615.html
> unstable, it was used to denote new ports which were not quite ready
> yet, but these files were still hosted on the ftp site. I think
> the standards for having something in ftp.debian.org are really much
> much lower than "ready for prime time".
Yes.
> I think biarch64 might progess a lot faster if it was made available
> in this way.
Yes, but pure64 can progress a lot faster yet and is farther along now.
-- John
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