Re: Status of debian-amd64 after sarge release
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:24, Soenke von Stamm wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 10:38 schrieb Johan Groth:
> > Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:04:31PM +0100, Jan Houstek wrote:
> > >>On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > >>>We will atleast have a released version of the sarge repository, with
> > >>>updates if there are, and security updates.
> > >>
> > >>That's good news. Any chance this port will become a part of the
> > >> official stable in some future release (Sarge 3.1 r1, r2 ...)?
> > >
> > > I don't think so.
> >
> > Then I have a (maybe a stupid) question. What is the point of doing this
> > port if it is never going to be part of a stable release?
> >
> > /Johan
>
> Er, rough guess: it's being done because many people like you and me need
> it? And I expect it to be in debian 3.2/4.0. Though I'm not part of any
> plans nor have I joined discussion (and only briefly read parts of it).
>
> What I don't unsderstand though is that many people don't want it in sarge.
> I know it would have delayed it even more. At least after WinXP x64 is
> released and world+dog have an AMD64/clone (;-) on their tables it'll be
> laughable not to have an AMD64 port of debian/stable. And we all know it'll
> take another three years until debian 3.2/4.0.
> Plus in many companies, something that's called 'testing' or 'unstable'
> won't be allowed on production systems, even if it's more mature than any
> SuSE etc. ever was. That's a heavy set-back for debian in corporate
> environment I think. I also have some trouble here btw. but I can stand it.
>
>
> Sönke
>
> Yikes! you have an ugly sig ;-p
> ...Plus it doesn't start by '-- \n' so it's not cut automatically...
Well my guess is that they want to wait for the 128 bit version coming out
next summer ;-). Just a guess so ;-o
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Nils Valentin
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