About the next Debian release.

About the next Debian release.

Posted Jun 7, 2005 23:12 UTC (Tue) by ender (subscriber, #13629)
In reply to: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released by kena
Parent article: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released

It is easy now to say that we will try to not make happen this again. Sarge release took too much time and energy for almost all of us. It has even 'forced' several developers to resign from Debian (their own position, because nobody forces someone to enter or resign from Debian). We will try to release again in 12-18 months, a reliable timeframe. This release has put apart a lot of modern software (KDE 3.4, xorg 6.8.2 the first ones in my memory) for stabilizing the release.

What you refer to by '64-bit x86' I guess that is the AMD architecture called amd64. IA64 (from Intel) was supported back in woody. The architecture will release in a few days, because it was not included in mainstream Debian. Just after the release of sarge, the ftpmasters will merge the amd64 tree into the main archive, and the amd64 architecture will be definitely another one.

About the pruning of platforms, I suppose that you refer to the 'Vancouver proposal' by the Debian Release Team. I suppose that yes, the number of architectures able to cause release problems will be at least cut in half. Only i386, ia64, amd64, arm, and any other 'modern' architecture. The remaining ones will be 'second class citizens' (SCC) and will have parallel releases, but not hard-related to the normal one. Search in Google by 'vancouver proposal' for the complete mail.

I hope that it helps. Best regards.

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