| Adam Majer 2004-07-23, 2:50 am |
| Andreas Metzler wrote:
> <>
> I cannot agree wholeheartedly to that. Being in a pre-release status
> for extended periods of time is difficult. - The necessary freeze of
> at least base makes work for maintainers of base packages very
> hard, necessary changes are postponed farther and farther. - Base
> dependencies have already been frozen for 4 months.
I guess this doesn't leave much room for testing of Amd64 then. Maybe
the best solution to the Amd64 problem is to release Sarge *without* it.
Then the major changes for Sarge+1 will be
1. Add Amd64
2. Switch to gcc-3.4
And release that as soon as both are ready (hopefully by mid 2005, at
the latest). We really should skip other major changes, like multiarch,
until Sarge+2. The major reason for that is not to delay Amd64 too far
and thus falling farther behind other distributions.
Since Amd64 is not even in Sid and base is frozen, I do not see how we
can get Amd64 ready in time for Sarge.
- Adam
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