--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 12:14 am +0200 "Christian Meder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: >> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish >> Brian> to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! >> >> I don't think sparc is ready to go, though Johnnie or Eric may see it >> differently. >> > I'm neither Johnnie nor Eric but I think the basic tools on sparc are > stabilizing (compiler, glibc2.1, kernel). I don't think Sparc is ready > for a full blown quality release like i386. > > Does it make sense to go for a stabilized developer snapshot, i.e. > a Sparc port which has base, required, standard and parts of the > optional packages (sources based on the slink dist of i386) ? > Kind of a official _development_ release with a big disclaimer about > the development character of the port. Powerpc probably would be a > second candidate for such a release. > > 2 reasons in favour: > > * we ease the work of the CD producers to provide a _reasonable_ > (installable) snapshot of the ports > We don't have installable CDs, do we? Our disks don't work on all models... although our netboot is better. AFAICS, there are still serious bugs in X - and also the 2.0 series kernels don't work well on SS2s, at least - but the 2.1 series kernels don't work at all with our bash. > * if there's a stabilized snapshot newbies will get (hopefully) a > softer introduction in the wonders of the Linux-Sparc/Powerpc/Arm/... world I see your argument. I'm worried that we might be perceived as giving the message that debian-sparc is ready for primetime, which, alas, it is not.. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem - | | and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC) | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
