On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:31:56PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:17:03PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:22PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > But really, is there much benefit in > > > making *releases* for the SCC architectures? > > > > What will happen is something like this: > > > > A: "Oh, let's see what we got here.... a nice Alpha server..." > > B: "Let us install Debian on it!" > > *browsing the web* > > A: "Oh, no release of Debian for Alpha... it's unsupported..." > > B: "Sad... it's a nice machine, but without a working Linux on it, we're > > gonna > > throw it away...." > > It's unsupported officially, but unstable is still available. > > The porters could do their own release if they wished.
Maybe the porters could then also upload the packages they maintain only for their pet arch then ? Do you have an idea how many of our 900+ maintainers are from not-mainstream arches ? i bet it may well be around 10% in both maintainers and amount of packages concerned. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
