Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 10:38 schrieb Johan Groth: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:04:31PM +0100, Jan Houstek wrote: > >>On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > >>>We will atleast have a released version of the sarge repository, with > >>>updates if there are, and security updates. > >> > >>That's good news. Any chance this port will become a part of the official > >>stable in some future release (Sarge 3.1 r1, r2 ...)? > > > > I don't think so. > > Then I have a (maybe a stupid) question. What is the point of doing this > port if it is never going to be part of a stable release? > > /Johan
Er, rough guess: it's being done because many people like you and me need it? And I expect it to be in debian 3.2/4.0. Though I'm not part of any plans nor have I joined discussion (and only briefly read parts of it). What I don't unsderstand though is that many people don't want it in sarge. I know it would have delayed it even more. At least after WinXP x64 is released and world+dog have an AMD64/clone (;-) on their tables it'll be laughable not to have an AMD64 port of debian/stable. And we all know it'll take another three years until debian 3.2/4.0. Plus in many companies, something that's called 'testing' or 'unstable' won't be allowed on production systems, even if it's more mature than any SuSE etc. ever was. That's a heavy set-back for debian in corporate environment I think. I also have some trouble here btw. but I can stand it. Sönke Yikes! you have an ugly sig ;-p ...Plus it doesn't start by '-- \n' so it's not cut automatically...