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Re: why is amd64 still separate?



Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:13:42PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> 
>>Perhaps I missed something, but why is amd64 still not
>>included into the "official" package pool?
>>
>>I am still in the NM process, but maybe I can help?
> 
> 
> It's a case of one architecture too many, rather than a problem with
> amd64 specifically. The archive for 12 architectures is too big.
> It will be split into two parts, being one distributed by all mirrors
> with the most common platforms (i386, amd64, perhaps powerpc) and a
> second half containing the less used architectures.
> 

Any news about this?

I am pretty concerned that amd64 won't make it for Etch,
either. With Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Gentoo and whatever officially
supporting amd64 for several months or even years, Debian is
loosing ground here.


Regards

Harri

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