On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 10:41:09AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > If you really want to have APUS included, potato won't freeze anytime > > > soon, or at least the boot floppies will delay release even longer than is > > > to be feared now anyways. > > > > are you saying if i wish to have APUS included, potato will be delayed by > > it ? > > No, what I'm saying is that potato would have to be delayed for that. I'm > not saying it will (take that up with the release team, preferably after > checking with the powerpc porters). > > > What about just just making an apus lha archive containing all needed stuff, > > and sort of include it unofficialy ? > > Where? I've not seen a section 'unofficial' on the FTP archives, nor an > 'unofficial' CD. If it's on the FTP site or on the CD, it's official. If > you want to build your own distribution 'based on Debian', fine. Beware of > the obvious traps (need I say Schatztruhe here?) and be prepared to > support it.
If Sven can have proven working apus support in the kernel-patch, kernel-image, and a branch of boot-floppies within two weeks then I think it could go into potato. Considering it's low impact on other subarchs and the pushing back of the freeze, I don't think it will hurt. Unfortunately, there appear to be so many special cases for apus kernel support (telling me that nobody is actively maintaining it), it's going to take a lot of commitment to make that timeframe. We can't afford to have apus support rolling into boot-floppies after a couple weeks. -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
