Hi, On Friday 22 December 2006 15:25, Bill Allombert wrote: > > m68k can be removed from testing and amd64 should be removed from > > stable... > Why ? etch-m68k is alive and kicking.
Because it makes the statistics less useful: if you look at http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/ you will see that m68k has the most broken packages, thus contributing heavily to the number of packages which are broken on "some" arch (see there). The "which packages are broken on some archs" is a useful indicator, but it's not/less useful for etch, if architectures which are not including in etch are included. And, no matter how alive m68k "really" is, m68k will not be part of etch, this has been decided and announced three month ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00020.html What might happen is, that the m68k porters create their own m68k-etch, just like amd64-sarge - which is also not displayed on that page under sarge. If this happens, a edos-debcheck for m68k-etch would be useful (like, for example, edos-debcheck is useful for debian-edu, too) - but it's not useful to polute tools with non-relevant data. regards, Holger
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