Re: this post is not off-topic
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: this post is not off-topic
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:00:18AM -0700, David Wright wrote:
> > Thanks for chiming in, Collin.
> >
> > > Ah, yes. So the security team will have to support both potato and
> > > woody, because both will be stable on different architectures. Package
> > > maintainers will have to support wildly different versions of their
> > > packages in stable. All this until the other architectures get a new
> > > stable release - which, if we only cared about raw numbers of users
> > > rather than developers willing to do the work, would most likely be
> > > never.
> >
> > This is an important point.
> >
> > Woody, however, is supposed to support 11 arches to potato's 6. One
could
> > drop the 5 new arches without encountering this problem. Would dropping
> > these 5 not help?
>
> The new architectures are well-maintained, so no, not particularly. My
> impression is that the security team are not all that willing to support
> the six architectures from potato through to woody without the
> infrastructure improvements currently in progress, let alone the five
> new ones. We need the infrastructure improvements anyway, and once the
> central components are finished I imagine that the cost per architecture
> will not be particularly great.
>
> I should also point out that this is completely the wrong time for this
> discussion; it's way too late to even think about persuading the release
> manager to change the architectures that will release with woody.
>
> (Please don't Cc: me, by the way; I read the list. Thanks.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
>
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