Re: amd64 into mainstream
On 4/19/05, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> So IMHO there is something for everyone in debian and people should be
> less obsessed with release cycles. Yes sarge should be released ASAP
> for a number of reasons but not at the expense of stability and
> durability.
That's a two way street.
If we oughtn't obsess with pushing for releases, there may be others
that oughtn't obsess with holding back on releases... :-)
I daresay I have been quite happy enough with using unstable for
various purposes.
For my own purposes, the current state of affairs is pretty
acceptable, with the two exceptions:
1. I'm keen to see x.org come into play, and that's "officially" a
post-sarge thing, and
2. I'm keen for AMD64 to become an "official" Debian relase I could
point to for servers at work, which has a similar dependancy. I
CANNOT recommend Debian/AMD64 right now.
And it is exasperating that "stable" is still using not only an
ancient major version of PostgreSQL, but even an ancient,
known-to-have-numerous-instabilities (since there are subsequent minor
releases) release. The minor releases only come to fix
instabilities... Testing and unstable are useful answers to this, but
it's exasperating that there wouldn't be a move to 7.2.7, which is a
safe binary upgrade...
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