Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 12:14 am +0200 "Christian Meder"
<meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
>> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:
>>
>> Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish
>> Brian> to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks!
>>
>> I don't think sparc is ready to go, though Johnnie or Eric may see it
>> differently.
>>
> I'm neither Johnnie nor Eric but I think the basic tools on sparc are
> stabilizing (compiler, glibc2.1, kernel). I don't think Sparc is ready
> for a full blown quality release like i386.
>
> Does it make sense to go for a stabilized developer snapshot, i.e.
> a Sparc port which has base, required, standard and parts of the
> optional packages (sources based on the slink dist of i386) ?
> Kind of a official _development_ release with a big disclaimer about
> the development character of the port. Powerpc probably would be a
> second candidate for such a release.
>
> 2 reasons in favour:
>
> * we ease the work of the CD producers to provide a _reasonable_
> (installable) snapshot of the ports
>
We don't have installable CDs, do we?
Our disks don't work on all models... although our netboot is better.
AFAICS, there are still serious bugs in X - and also the 2.0 series kernels
don't work well on SS2s, at least - but the 2.1 series kernels don't work at
all with our bash.
> * if there's a stabilized snapshot newbies will get (hopefully) a
> softer introduction in the wonders of the Linux-Sparc/Powerpc/Arm/...
world
I see your argument. I'm worried that we might be perceived as giving the
message that debian-sparc is ready for primetime, which, alas, it is not..
Jules
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