On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:39:57PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > That's true; I'm an amd64 porter that opposes inclusion in sarge at this > time. > > However, that issue is orthogonal to inclusion in the archive in sid, > which is something that we also can't seem to get done. I've seen at least one message in this thread argue that a compromise between the two positions might be to get amd64 in to sid ASAP with the objective of waiting until some point release of sarge before including it there. Obviously it's not our normal practice to add architectures with point releases, but I think it's pretty clear that real support for this architecture is too important to wait until sarge+1 is released, potentially two years from now. Inexpensive amd64 systems are available right now, and many high performance sites (my "real life" workplace included) want to switch to it immediately. How does the rest of the developer community feel about this idea? Can anybody speak for the ftpmasters regarding the issues they might see with it? noah
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