* Raul Miller (moth@debian.org) wrote: > I'm running native i386 debian on an amd64 right now. [...] > If you don't provide a dual 32/64 bit amd64, your transition strategy > is going to be "install it on a different partition" or "backup, wipe > and reinstall". Hey, it took a long ass time, and it would have been nice if you'd made your complaint a *bit* clearer earlier, but I think I've finally figured it out. I guess I just couldn't believe that someone was actually bringing this up. Apparently you have woody/i386 (our stable arch) running on an amd64 box today and are concerned about an upgrade path to amd64 in sarge. You're right, there isn't one. The answer is very simple- wait for sarge+1 and multiarch. If you're happy with i386 on amd64 today then feel free to continue to use it, I don't believe anything we're introducing would cause you any problems there. Additionally, I'm not convinced that woody/i386 on an amd64 box is considered 'supported' by Debian. In fact, I seriously doubt that it is, so I don't believe this complaint is a valid one for keeping amd64 out of sarge until it can handle this situation. If you feel differently then I strongly encourage you to contact the RM's, the SRM and the web team and ask them to issue a statement confirming this and to update the web pages to reflect this. I hope this clears up what your complaint with pure64 is so that other people can read it and judge themselves how they feel about it. Personally, I couldn't care less about that situation. It would seem *much* more likely to me that users would be coming back from other distributions which already support amd64 to sarge if it's released with amd64. Stephen
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