Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:31:56PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > A: "Oh, no release of Debian for Alpha... it's unsupported..."
> > B: "Sad... it's a nice machine, but without a working Linux on it, we're gonna
> > throw it away...."
>
> It's unsupported officially, but unstable is still available.
Ah, but we have always (rightly!) told end-users to avoid unstable
because:
a) it could be buggy
b) it could be horribly broken at any given moment
c) there may be no working installer
d) there is no security support.
These are showstoppers.
> The porters could do their own release if they wished.
And what, publish it on Alioth? Doesn't this bring about the same
problems that amd64 on alioth has?
> It would be interesting to hear how NetBSD/OpenBSD handles this
> situation, as they have a lot of ports. (Of course they have far fewer
> packages than we do so their problem is on a much smaller scale.)
> Do they release new versions on all ports at once?
Gentoo also has quite a lot of ports, and have quite a lot of packages,
also.
-- John
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