In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> A silly question to you as release manager: > >Silly indeed. Use the list archives. You cannot miss the monstruous threads >about it. > >> What exactly are the technical reasons why amd64 can't simply be shipped >> as 12th architecture with sarge? > >Mirror space. Instead of replying and beating a dead, burried, and already >decomposed horse, just go read the archives.
Well, there's several mirrors like ftp.nl.debian.org and ftp.debian.nl that now mirror _both_ official debian and debian-amd64. Which means the source is mirrored twice already. On those mirrors, including amd64 would mean less mirror space, not more. Because of the popularity of amd64/em64t I expect a lot of mirrors to follow suit, anyway. So in the end it doesn't really matter if sarge includes amd64 or not - the mirrors will carry it regardless. It would be simpler though to include amd64 with sarge. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
