--- Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > How many people are using Debian > > GNU/Linux on hppa, anyway? > > Enough to have started and to maintain the hppa port. You > realize that > you are extremly rude to those people who spend much time > to port Debian to those archs.
Certainly not. Waiting for hppa (etc) support has delayed release of woody - that's a fact. The vast majority of Debian users have been adversely affected by a tiny minority of vocal marginal-architecture advocates. > If you want to speed up the woody release, go to > http://bugs.debian.org/ > and fix bugs and supply patches. There are no outstanding release-critical bugs in packages I use on the architecture I have access to, so your comment is not applicable. In my opinion the only practical way to get Woody released in a reasonable time (say, before the rest of the GNU/Linux community has moved on from the 2.4 kernel that we're still waiting to upgrade to) is to formally drop support for at least 3 of the current 11 architectures. If that statement displeases some of the advocates for the marginal architectures, so be it. It's time for some plain speaking here, in the interests of the viability of the Debian distro. Targeting several architectures, instead of just 386, is valuable. But targeting so many that we can't finish a release is self-defeating. Nick Jacobs __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
