The following is a draft for an amendment to the latest GR; I'd appreciate comments on it before eventually proposing it:
=== I hereby propose an amendment to the current GR proposal "Release sarge with amd64": The Debian project hereby resolves, That we will not include further architectures for the next Debian release (codenamed 'sarge'), except for possible point releases (at the Release Manager's discretion). The text completely replaces that of the original proposal. Rationale: sarge is already late, like most other Debian releases before it. Including yet another architecture (ie. more functionality) is not what the majority of our users need now; such an inclusion would most likely lead to sarge being delayed further, without a real gain for most of our users. (AMD64/x86-64 runs all i386 software already, the performance gains are in the class of 10-15% and the 64-bit address space is only needed for a very small segment.) AMD64 has its obvious place in Debian, but before it goes in, lots of other things should go in place, most notably multi-arch support in dpkg and in Debian in general. This is work that can be done very quickly after sarge has been released, which will gain both AMD64 and other architectures a lot more than having a 64-bit-only port go into sarge at this stage. IMHO having a GR for this is wrong -- what goes into a release is the business of the Release Manager. However, as there is already a proposal on this, there should also be a counter-proposal for those who disagree. === /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]