Re: Please ensure SVGATextMode < 1.9-18 does not enter the distro for amd64
Ron wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:18:46AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:11:36AM +0930, Ron wrote:
> So at this stage I think the best thing to do is to leave it out of
> stable for now (for amd64, its fine for i386), until it has been better
> tested and confirmed to work for at least several common video cards.
>
> If we get that confirmation, then including a later build for amd64 in
> stable should be a reasonably safe thing to do. This package has
> changed very little over the last 4 - 5 years and is fairly solid on
> x86, its just more or less a complete unknown on amd64 at this stage.
>
> None of the changes I've made should affect the x86 builds, but they
> also don't fix any bugs for that arch, so a proposed update probably
> only makes sense if we do want to add it to the amd64 stable distro.
>
> I'll look at that if we get a reasonable quorum of acks from people
> who've actually tried it there without problem. Until then there
> might be a few more things that shake out in 64 bit builds...
Ok, thanks for the explanation and please contact us to include it when it's
ready.
Cheers
Luk
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