On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:31:56PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > A: "Oh, no release of Debian for Alpha... it's unsupported..." > > B: "Sad... it's a nice machine, but without a working Linux on it, we're > > gonna > > throw it away...." > > It's unsupported officially, but unstable is still available.
Ah, but we have always (rightly!) told end-users to avoid unstable because: a) it could be buggy b) it could be horribly broken at any given moment c) there may be no working installer d) there is no security support. These are showstoppers. > The porters could do their own release if they wished. And what, publish it on Alioth? Doesn't this bring about the same problems that amd64 on alioth has? > It would be interesting to hear how NetBSD/OpenBSD handles this > situation, as they have a lot of ports. (Of course they have far fewer > packages than we do so their problem is on a much smaller scale.) > Do they release new versions on all ports at once? Gentoo also has quite a lot of ports, and have quite a lot of packages, also. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
