On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:43, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The Debian project, > > based on its Social Contract stating that its priorities are its users > and free software, > > recognizing that the AMD64-based architectures are likely to become the > most widespread on personal computers and workstations in a near future, > > and acknowledging that its users want to take advantage of all this > architecture's features, > > hereby resolves: > > 1. that the next Debian GNU/Linux release, codenamed "sarge", will > include the "amd64" architecture, based on the work currently hosted > at http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ ; > 2. that non-compliance of that "amd64" distribution with the Linux > Standard Base specification for IA32 will not be considered a > release-critical bug; > 3. that we will include it immediately in the "sid" distribution and > auto-building infrastructure, and take all appropriate steps so > that inclusion won't delay the release of "sarge" any further. > > Rationale: > > With our current release timeframe, AMD64 is likely to become the most > sold architecture for personal computers way before the release that > will follow sarge. If we don't release sarge with AMD64 support, our > users will be very disappointed. The popularity of the debian-amd64 > project just shows what they are waiting for. > > Furthermore, the AMD64 architecture is mostly ready. It now builds just > as many packages as our other release architectures, and it has a > working installer. > > The only valid reasons for not including it are lack of LSB compliance > (which can still be easily achieved with a i386 chroot) and mirror space > (which will be saved using partial mirroring). Another reason seems to > be the lack of cooperation of some developers. This resolution intends > to make everyone cooperate in this direction. Of course, the author of > this resolution would welcome if the people responsible would just do > it, thereby making this resolution superfluous.
Seconded. However, this GR should not have been necessary. I second it in the hope that dropping a sledgehammer on their toes will get the ftpmasters to learn to communicate. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you." Hebrews 13:5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
