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Re: Two Debian Release Cycle Issues



On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:24:00PM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote:
> * The Multiple Architecture Support Issue
> 
> Each additional architecture support will significantly increase
> the Debian release cycle, including security update, as well as
> moving from "unstable" to "testing".

I don't believe that this is true to anywhere near the extent frequently
claimed. Moving from one architecture to multiple architectures
certainly introduces a good deal more work; moving from 11 to 12 makes
very little difference. You'll probably have seen comments about the
extra architectures in woody having slowed things down, but that's
because some of the infrastructure wasn't up to the task. That's been
fixed now.

Of the glibc bugs that slowed things down recently, a number were just
as visible on i386.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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