Michal Suchanek, le Tue 18 Mar 2008 13:15:27 +0100, a écrit : > > Debian doesn't wait for non-official architectures to catch up. > > They do delete Hurd packages when there are no new ones to replace > them?
No, but they do delete _all packages when there are new ones to replace them, even if the _hurd rdeps are not compiled yet. > > > Can't there be a server with a Hurd repository that archives enough of > > > core packages to allow building a Hurd system out of these? > > > > > > The problem is to determine automatically what has to be kept. > > Everything. There aren't that many packages for the Hurd. There are currently ~3600 packages installed. Plus the _all packages... Keeping all the versions is quite some disk space. > Plus keep all versions of packages on some "hurd-core" list until > somebody manually marks a newer version as verified working. It's not necessarily so simple, you need to check all the rdeps etc. Samuel