On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:47:54PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote: >On 5/9/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Wednesday 09 May 2007 06:52, Brian Morris wrote: >>> please provide us with updated images so that I and >>> others with slow internet/ multiple machine needs for >>> cd images can do our updates. >> >>The m68k architecture is currently not in testing (a consequence of it not >>being an Etch release architecture), so it is impossible to build images >>for it. The m68k porters are working on getting the architecture >>supported again, but it is currently unknown if and when that will >>happen. >> >>Cheers, >>FJP >> >boy you are one mean bureaucratic honcho. where do >you get off talking down to people like that ?
I fail to see anything in Frans' response that could be interpreted as "talking down". Care to enlighten us? >it loooks to me like testing is there. I think you are in error >about that, or else there is some dispute. No, m68k is not currently in testing: $ ls -al /mirror/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-m68k ls: /mirror/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-m68k: No such file or directory <snip> >it seems to me you are blocking the possibility of reinstatement >of the port by not providing the means to create images. >and also that you are blocking the principles of free >software, if not the legal statement of the licenses. > >I understand some protectiveness around the release >of official cd images. but that cannot be allowed to >continue the erosion of our freedoms. it is a very >dangerous thing and debian has no business being >on the wrong side of it. I'm sorry, but I can make no sense of what you're trying to say here, particularly in terms of "erosion of our freedoms". I'll reply to what I *think* you're trying to ask, though... As soon as there is something available for m68k that we can usefully build against, I will happily re-add m68k to the list of regularly built CD and DVD images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
