Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
Andres Salomon writes:
> 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?
it's not yet part of Debian, so it can't be critical. Yes, this means
recompiling the amd64 binaries, no transition.
> 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).
s/3.4/3.5/g
Matthias
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