On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:22PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Ingo, obviously you are pissed off. But really, is there much benefit in > making *releases* for the SCC architectures? yes, there is. because people want it. just like they want stable releases for i386. the only difference is that there are less people... if we have to treat some arch as a "second class citizen" in order to get our releases out in a timely manner, whcih is what the proposers claim, that's fine with me. but then there must be a way for the people interested in the port to work towards having a stable and officially supported release. in the current state i seriously doubt that one could get a minor architecture, say sh, into the archive again no matter how much work you spend on it. simply because some people don't want it there. and if this it's needed for timely releases, why is it the only thing that is said about changes in the release process. if people think that this is the only thing needed to make our releases work, they are most probably wrong. summing up: if we need the scc in order to make good releases, fine. but then we also need to make sure that we do the releases and make sure that an arch can come back. cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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