Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> It got proposed because no one was able to give correct explanations >> about why it hadn't been included. > > Heh. I'm almost morbidly curious enough to ask what you think the > "correct" explanation of why it hasn't been included is, except that, > well, I'm not.
The only reason amd64 didn't get added and still hasn't been added is that some mirros don't have enough space/bandwith to cope with another arch. That is for _sid_. Inclusion of sarge (as the misphrased GR wanted at some point) was always blocked by not being in sid. > For those playing along at home, Martin replied to Josselin's query at > the time with his DPL hat on: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/07/msg00253.html | - Some technical AMD64 questions: ftpmaster had some specific | questions about the AMD64 port they want to see answered. Also, | an LSB person recently expressed some technical concerns (see [1]). Ftp-master (meaning James here) never ever did express any questions or any reply. Only second hand we got the information that suddenly there were no more questions. As for LSB issue that was just misunderstanding of the port status and cleared up later in the thread. And the port inclusion policy (first point in the mail) was always said that it will allow amd64 in anyway. > Josselin's reaction to that explanation, which remains completely > correct as far as it goes (though perhaps focussing too much on the > "write a policy") is pretty much why I don't think explanations are a > particularly useful part of addressing these controversies. Without the explanation the contious weekly questions why amd64 wasn't in debian would have continued. With it there was a small discussion and then a lot less noise. The explanation also ment we could give up asking for inclusion as none of the (remaining) points were anything that could be changed. >> I still believe it was a mistake to release without amd64. > > We didn't release without amd64; the sarge release for amd64 is on > amd64.debian.net. You (as in Debian) released without amd64. Now don't start claiming the ports own release is suddenly official when everybody maintained the opposite all this time. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
