An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

Posted Apr 25, 2005 20:29 UTC (Mon) by jwb (guest, #15467)
Parent article: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

Great news. They can hardly have expected AMD64 to remain out of sarge, as even in it's unsanctioned experimental state, it is the second most popular architecture after i386 (according to Popularity Contest). It is three times more popular than PowerPC and 9 times more frequently seen than Alpha. It deserves a Sarge release.

An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

Posted Apr 25, 2005 20:53 UTC (Mon) by avr (guest, #27673) [Link]

As I understand it, it is not released as sarge, or more precisely. The AMD64 release will not be part of Debian stable as a supported architecture.
The porting team made a huge effort to have it officially included, but it didn't make it. So the porting team decided to make a release parallel to sarge, taking care of the support themselves.

This is how I interpret the above combined together with the amd64 discussion on debian-devel.

Incidentally, the port now gets to be a guinnee pig for the upcoming unloved architectures of Debian, where the porting teams will be supposed to do their own security support, amongst other things, that up to and including Sarge have been taken care of by Debian.