[Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: ppc64 archive bloating alioth disk ...

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 03:05:52PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> On 05-Sep-23 14:38, Sven Luther wrote:
> > it all depends if multiarch is a etch release goal or not. Current discussion
> > with the RMs tell me that multi arch is only a non-blocking etch release goal,
> > which means if it is not ready in time, then there will be no ppc64 support at
> > all, and no biarch fallback.
> 
> Multiarch will almost certainly not be supported in etch. A biarch 
> fallback solution for some core libraries would of course be nice, 
> but fear that it will not be easy to get this into etch either.

and who are you to know this if even the RMs are not sure about this ?

> > And i don't see you working on multi-arch either.
> 
> No, I am not working on multiarch because I am mainly interested in
> a clean 64-bit user space. However, the packages from the native ppc64
> archive will be necessary for a multiarch approach for powerpc.

it can be a partial archive though.

but right, you are not interested, you are not participating, you are not even
informed of what is going on inside debian, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther