This message is intended to meet the expectations set forth by Anthony Towns
in email dated 1 July 2001, specifically the paragraph:
Deadline: someone from each architecture that wants to release
needs to mail -release with their current status, and a successful
install report by July 24th.
I believe that the ia64 architecture can and should be included when we
release woody. In support of this assertion, I offer the following:
- Our toolchain has stabilized. We have an architecture-specific binutils
package and are the only Debian architecture using gcc-2.96. These tool
versions are the current defaults for this architecture in the community.
- The system is definitely usable as it stands. Systems running Debian
have been stable for several months, and in the last few days I have
begun using an HP Workstation i2000 including a working X server as one
of my principle software development systems.
- Approximately 70% of the relevant packages in Debian are up to date
in the unstable archive, and several people are working full or part
time to resolve the buildability issues in the remaining packages.
- We are happily installing Debian on new systems using a CDROM image based
on boot-floppies CVS, on Itanium systems from HP, Intel, and Compaq.
We are making some minor adjustments to the way elilo is configured, and
Richard Hirst hopes to commit "final" support for ia64 systems to
boot-floppies CVS shortly. An upload of packages to the archive can
happen quickly using CVS boot-floppies code, or we can wait for a new
release after our changes are committed... and upload quickly then.
If there are any further questions, I will be happy to answer them.
Bdale
