Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:26:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> Well, the other big ones would be the installer, being synced up on sources,
> and the ability to do point releases.  It seems the first two are addressed,
> and the third seems to be more or less the same question as that of security
> support -- whether the people involved are willing to coordinate with an
> externally-hosted repo when doing updates.

A silly question to you as release manager:

What exactly are the technical reasons why amd64 can't simply be shipped 
as 12th architecture with sarge?

This wouldn't require any extra work.

> Steve Langasek

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Adrian

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