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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:43:10AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:28:15PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 16:09 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek:
> > > You do know that m68k is the only architecture still carrying around
> > > 2.*2* kernels in sarge?
> 
> > False. See sparc32.
> 
> $ madison -a sparc -s testing -r 'kernel.*2\.2'
> $
> 
> ?
> 
> > Even if it is true that we do still carry 2.2 into sarge, that is only
> > for Mac; not for any of the other subarchitectures.
> 
> Nevertheless, it is a factor that contributes negatively to the
> maintainability of a stable release...

Well, we could drop mac/m68k supported subarch then ?

For that matter, it would probably make sense to drop 2.4 kernels fully in the
not so far future.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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