Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:58:03 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:43:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Furthermore, the AMD64 architecture is mostly ready. It now builds just
>> as many packages as our other release architectures, and it has a
>> working installer.
>
> Judging from conversation on debian-glibc, it sounds like AMD64 really
> wants to use gcc 3.4, which is not tenable for sarge because it involves
> an API change (see Matthias Klose's recent mail to debian-release and
> debian-glibc). Can you explain how critical this is to the port?
>
I'm wondering if people realize that the sooner we get sarge out the door,
the sooner we can make large scale changes that would benefit amd64 (such
as switching to gcc-3.4).
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