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Re: AMD64 for sarge [<rant> Package: ftpmasters, Severity: serious, ...]



On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:26 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:01:51AM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > According to Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader:
> > >   - A general port inclusion policy: there are a number of pending ports
> > >     (s390x, powerp64 and various BSD ports), and therefore it is
> > >     important to have a clear policy saying which criteria a new port
> > >     has to fulfil.
> > 
> > AMD64 hardware sales are huge and growing.  Its CPUs are made by both
> > AMD and Intel.  It's the upward-compatible upgrade path for the single
> > most popular computer architecture *ever*.
> > 
> > But Debian can't accept the port because we don't have a PORT POLICY.
> > 
> > I think there's only one possible comment: "WTF?!"
> 
> But we have a situation here where the amd64 port name was arbitrarily
> changed in dpkg (without any public discussion first);
> 
I'm not sure how this is relevant to this discussion about ftpmasters; I
made that decision, I am not an ftpmaster and have no desire to become
one.

It wasn't "changed" either, it was simply introduced in dpkg with a
different architecture name; that was intended to be the *start* of a
discussion period (the amd64 porters would be unaffected since they were
already using a forked dpkg) -- it could've been easily changed before
the release of sarge to something else after calm discussion.

Instead the children involved with the port decided to throw a tantrum
and believed the best way to get what they wanted was to be as loud and
insulting as possible.

> amd64 is more mature than even some released architectures
> 
This might be true of the architecture, unfortunately it seems to be the
exact opposite for most of the people involved with it.

Scott
(not an ftpmaster; nothing to do with ftpmasters; doesn't look, smell or
taste like an ftpmaster; doesn't speak, sing or dance for ftpmasters;
Womble's friend)
-- 
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?

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