On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 18:00 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2005.03.17.1734 +0100]: > > This it what I see as the attitude of *some* people: "It works on > > x86, x86-64 & ppc. Who cares about lame old and/or arches like > > m68k, arm, hppa & sparc?" > > Well, there seem to be no more than two ways to get rid of this > problem: drop some architectures, or make people realise and embrace > what Debian is all about. I am not in favour of the first, and the > second seems utopic. So we're stuck. Yup. > > 1. even more disparity between the popular arches and the tiny > > ones. > > Supply and demand... Yup. > > 2. difficulty with bugs. How do you close a bug, if it doesn't > > work on some arches? The open bug count would go even higher. > > You don't close it, period. Or we introduce arch-dependent bugs > and/or fixed-in-i386 etc tags... Yup. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America.
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