On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:28:40AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (04/04/2007): > > [quote postponed to the end of the message]
> > No one has responded to the important point here, which is that *we > > should not ship broken binaries on 64-bit systems*; the -5etch1 > > package is certainly no better than -6 in this respect, AFAICS both > > versions still have an undeclared grave bug because they both ship > > binaries on ia64/alpha/amd64 that are known not to be usable. > I wouldn't say it is unusable, see the discussion we had [1]. Please > also note that this problem, according to upstream, has affected every > 64-bit architecture since it is opensource. As far as I know (please > note I'm quite new to the team), nobody ever reported that blender was > unusable on these archs, although it has been in debian since 2.23-0.1 > in oldstable. I understand that the public would be rather amd64-powered > than working on ia64 and alpha, and that there were no official amd64 > release, but well, nobody complained. > 1. > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-blender-maintainers/2007-March/000195.html Ok, thanks for the pointer. From that discussion, yeah, it doesn't sound unusable after all. In which case I consider it a bug that NEWS.Debian calls it "not releasable", but oh well. :) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
