I would like to congratulate the developers who did this great job to make available Debian amd64 port to all us debian users. Great work congrats once again. Bharath * Joerg Jaspert (joerg@debian.org) wrote: > Hi > > Just following the "big" Release we have a small one to announce: > Debian AMD64 Port is now (since Wednesday, 8th June 2005) also declared > stable. From now on there will be no changes to this archive, except > for point releases which will be coordinated closely with the Debian > ones. > > CD and DVD images will be made available on cdimage.debian.org, try > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ as soon as the > images are built, which should be today or tomorrow. > > Security Support for this release will be provided by the Debian > Security Team via security.debian.org. Our security autobuilder will > start this weekend. Should there be any DSA for sarge before that day we > will provide it manually until then (but we dont expect this to happen > at the moment). > > To make this support happen we agreed to some conditions, which > include "Only a very minimal set of packages is allowed to be patched > for AMD64 support". We achieved this by strict rules for uploads and > dropping some packages that need large amounts of patches or work to > be done to compile or run on AMD64 systems. We are now down to 8 > packages that are not in sync with Debian, with candidates like > syslinux, linux86 and also base-config/choose-mirror (to use our > mirror list). In total, the list of packages removed from our archive > is much bigger - a few hundred. We compiled a list of these for the > security team to work with, but it may also be useful for other > people. It is available under > http://amd64.debian.net/docs/package_changes.txt if you want to take a > look. > > We do plan to support those packages, if there is someone from the > porting team or even the maintainers themselves willing to work on > it. We will provide a sarge-patched (or similar named) repository in > our archive, which will contain most of those packages, patched to > work on amd64. But please note: They DO NOT have official security > support. Usually the one maintaining the package in this section will > keep it uptodate, but if you have some hard security policy - please > do not rely on this! > > If you visit packages.debian.org and search for a package you will > notice (since a few weeks ago) that it also lists the amd64 versions, > including links to download the packages from one of our mirrors. > This will continue to work for sarge, but may break for short times > while amd64 gets integrated into the main Debian archive. If you see > that then please be patient. > > Now, talk about the future: etch and sid, testing and unstable. We > will continue to track these two releases until AMD64 is in Debian and > the buildd stats show that it has built more than 95% of the > archive. Around that day we will discontinue our etch and sid support, > but will post a short announcement to this list when that happens. > (http://buildd.debian.org/stats/) > > Other interesting links: > > http://amd64.debian.net/docs - contains our release notes for now, will > get Faq/Howto/Whatever else also. > http://amd64.ftbfs.de/ - If you are searching for a build log of a > package on amd64, this is your place for > now. > > Finally please let me say thank you to all the people who support our > architecture by making services and bandwith available to us. We do > appreciate your support! > > > -- > bye Joerg > > Or write yourself a DFSG-free replacement for that piece of software. > Using the copy and paste method from the old source, obscured by > irrelevant changes. Thanks, Bharath --- Bharath Ramesh <bramesh@vt.edu> http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~bramesh
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