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Re: [Internal projects] Common development in subprojects



On Friday 18 October 2002 07:20, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 18-Oct-02, 01:02 (CDT), Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, marco trevisani wrote:
> > >  The majority of the resources for next step will be anyway devoted to
> > >  fixing before the 1.0 release in April, plus, starting porting to more
> > >  platforms (alpha, risc, ppc, 64-bit machines etc.).
> >
> > This will be done automatically if you join Debian.  Any package has to
> > work on all released plattforms.
>
> No, they don't. If they did, we wouldn't need an "Architecture:" field.
>
> Steve

Right but an application can be set to Any and tested easily.  Most of the 
time the non ia32 people know exactly what the problem is and can offer a 
patch.  So the act of porting goes fast enough.



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