Re: Re: Architecture qualification
Hi,
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> On 28/05/12 01:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> > On 29/05/12 19:57, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > [...] we add hurd-i386 to testing with
> > > break/fucked, but we don't expect it to make the release. I.e. bugs
> > > for hurd-i386 are not RC.
> >
> > Maybe that's all that's needed?
> >
> > The recent enthusiasm sounds to me like an opportunity. An official
> > testing suite in the archive, from which usable installer images can be
> > built, could be what encourages hurd-i386 to progress into something
> > really releasable. If this doesn't happen now while there's some
> > momentum, it might never happen again and that would be a shame.
>
> >From the one of the porters side, this would be a _very_ good solution
> indeed! If GNU/Hurd enters som kind of testing status, the number of
> users and contributors will increase (hopefully). Can it be part of
> testing and then when the release happens, be treated specially?
As I understand it, this has been discussed but deemed not
possible/worthwhile.
> And most packages will be located in the main repo, only the packages
> having patches, not yet handled by the DMs, being there. Is that
> possible?
What do you mean with "there"? Either there is a testing distribution,
or there is not, as far as Debian is concerned.
Michael
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