Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 2:09pm, Alexander Rapp wrote:
> Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >If you had read my response to Goswin, you would know we aren't talking
> > about release dates for anything, I'm talking about Sid, which will
> > eventually become Etch, but obviously will exist for a long time before
> > Etch does. :) The issue here is just the co-location of non-free and the
> > AMD64 repository (whatever its called, wherever its located). Those 2
> > will find themselves together again on debian.org long before Etch sees
> > the light of day, but the point is there is no reason to separate them
> > *now*.
>
> If you are so certain that providing non-free amd64 from a non-debian
> server will not pose any legal problems, and so determined that there
> are packages (other than nvidia) in non-free that people actually want
> to use, then why don't you host it yourself? You can "apt-get source
> -b" the source packages from ftp.debian.org, upload the amd64-compiled
> .debs to any webserver you have access to, and get a script to generate
> Packages.gz.
Because its already been done. mtms announced earlier that he's keeping a
mirror of our old non-free. And he's not going to get sued by anyone either.
There is no legal threat, that's just the excuse they used to get rid of
something they never wanted to keep, even though a majority vote of DDs voted
to keep it.
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