Re: When will amd64 unstable be official?

[Jo Shields <jo.shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> Ken Bloom wrote:
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> > Did you remember to include non-free and contrib in your sources.list?
> > Most of the packages you mention would be found there.
> >
> >
> >    
> Yes,... of course ;-)
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> > BTW, AMD64 is very almost an official port. It is autobuilding packages
> > as they are uploaded to Debian, so any package that's not included is
> > probaby due to arch-specific reasons. All that AMD64 is waiting for to
> > become "official" is a place on the official mirrors.
> >
> >
> >    
> Uhm,.. really? Already autobuilding? Why can't one see amd64 messages in
> the REMOVALS.TXT and so?
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Try amd64.ftbfs.de - there's no autobuilder for non-free though, which 
is likely the cause of the problem (some of non-free is licensed to 
Debian only, and AMD64 Debian, being unofficial, isn't covered by those 
licenses)

> And what keeps them from moving it to the official servers?
>  

Bureaucracy. And retarded statements like 'With the exception of i386 
and sparc, pretty much everything else has [run aground like IA64 did]'

> Chris.

--Jo Shields