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An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

Posted Apr 27, 2005 9:32 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works by JoeBuck
Parent article: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

I've contemplated switch to Debian but ended with Gentoo instead. There are solution is trival: each package has status for each architecture. Thus package can be upgraded for x86 and sparc, but not for arm and mips. Why not go this way ? It's only logical, after all...

P.S. And no x86 is not "the most current one": some changes are essential for x86-64, but not really important for x86 - in such a case package will be marked as "~x86" and "amd64"...


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An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

Posted Apr 28, 2005 3:16 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Because then you have multiple versions of the package running around, making support much harder.

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