Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:07:14 -0500:
> AFAIK, it is incorrect right now to exclude s390, arm, sh, etc on > stablereqs right now..But, I ask this question to the dev community: > "Why?" There are ~190 open bugs with s390 as assignee or on the CC list. > Does it *really* matter if these under-staffed "odd" arches have a > stable tree or not? Having been an amd64 user back when it was much smaller, and having followed the previous discussion on this here, including the mips -> experimental move, yes, it does matter. With the bugs there's at least some info on a package and its stabilization potential when/if someone gets around to doing something about it. Without them, the job of bringing them back to unsupported and then to full supported, if there's suddenly a leap in interest, becomes much harder as there's that much less info on what /was/ stable at one point, and on anything in the ~arch versions that might need checked before they go stable again. So it matters; there's a practical reason for it. However, that's not the same as saying it's the overall best solution at this time. I have no opinion on that, particularly as I /personally/ prefer ~arch in any case. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
