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Re: testing and no release schedule



On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:02:29PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:46:46PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> 
> > > Debian releases on what is it, 11 archs?  Most of them are never tested
> > > by upstream authors, so if there's a problem, guess where it's going to
> > > show up?
> > How about we just stop making excuses?  If dead architectures are holding up
> > the release process, then drop them, or make them secondary platforms.  m68k
> > wouldn't be any worse off today if we had released an i386 sarge six months
> > ago.
> 
> Ah, you're offering yourself as a person that would like to explain users
> why their arch is no longer supported?

I'm not suggesting dropping support.  Please learn to read.  I'm saying that
architectures with RC bugs that are not popular should not hold up the
release.  They can be released later.  It will be up to the individual arch
teams when the release happens.

--Adam

-- 
Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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