Re: Uploading amd64 packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:13:23AM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote:
>> Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because
>> you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from
>> that upload?
>
> Why would ftp-master want to work on special-casing amd64 for this instead
> of just working on getting amd64 into the archive?

Because the former takes 10 minutes while the later takes weeks and
coordination with all mirrors.

Also the DAK could ignore all !all debs on all uploads and let
everything autobuild. No special casing amd64 there.

MfG
        Goswin