Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"
On Friday 31 May 2002 03:27 pm, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Fundamentally, Debian is committed to being a multi-architecture system
> > for as long as porters are willing to support it. The Project Leader
> > posted to debian-devel-announce about porting a couple of weeks ago, and
> > summed up the issues quite nicely.
>
> That must be this post here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-20
>0205/msg00007.html
>
> I would never argue for dropping support for arches unless there was no
> longer any interest in them; however, I still think asynchronous
> releases are a decent idea. i386 undoubtedly gets far more testing and
> should be ready for release before other arches.
way back when i first used suse, my suspicion of their imminent transition
into user-phobia and rh-style commercialism seemed vindicated by their
disregard for platforms other than i386. while i can't hold a conversation
with a mac user for longer than ten minutes, there really wasn't even gloat
value in the notion that the biggest, fattest, meanest mac in town had to
wait six months or a year to get hold of the current release. it just made
suse seem cheesy. i think it speaks for the integrity of debian that as much
as possible is done to cater to everyone simultaneously.
ben
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