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Re: Please allow tre 0.7.5 in testing



On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:29:31PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the second item: I'm not sure about 64-bit powerpc, but at
> > least sparc is one of our fully supported architectures, and a
> > "does not work at all" bug seems to be the kind of bug we usually
> > don't want to see in a stable release.
> 
> True, but the Debian sparc port is not a 64-bit architecture; it's a 32-bit
> userspace running on predominantly 64-bit hardware.
> 
> So there doesn't seem to be anything here that justifies a freeze exception
> (and the debdiff for this update is quite unwieldly).

Ok. I suspected we would not have too many big-endian 64-bit users,
but never imagined we did not have any at all :-)

(And yes, I agree the diff is very large)

Thanks.



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