On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:09, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hi, > > What is the future plan for pure64 and gcc-3.4? What will the gcc-3.4 (now > almost gcc-4.0) archive eventually become? Will it always be an > experimental thing that never becomes "official", or will it eventually > become the official AMD64 port's Sid with pure64 becoming the Stable, or > what? I've never seen any reference that explains why those 2 different > archives exist and what their futures are. TIA.
This has been discussed before on this list, but it seems that many messages that go out to the list do not actually get archived at http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/ I'm not sure why this is, but it has been happening for a while. For example, Andreas posted an explanation on 2005-02-21 about his intentions for the gcc-3.4 archive, but this mail never showed up in the archive. I believe that this type of archive failure is why many questions get repeated. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I have appended the message below. -Ted > >On 05-Feb-21 17:48, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> What happens to the gcc-3.4/gcc-4.0 repository is totaly undecided and > >> I leave that up to Andreas as he is doing all the work on it. > > > > My intention is to continue the gcc-3.4 archive until > > Debian officially switches to gcc-4.0 as its default compiler. > > > > However, this may take quite a long time and I think that to avoid > > confusion the following should be done: > > > > 1. The 'gcc-3.4' archive should be renamed to 'gcc4' to reflect its > > current state. > > > > 2. The documentation for the amd64 port should mark the 'gcc4' archive > > as an experimental archive. > > > > 3. The documentation should clearly state that the 'pure64' archive > > is the 'official' one for the amd64 port which will be > > integrated into the Debian archive after sarge is released. > > > > Hopefully, the name change from 'gcc-3.4' to 'gcc4' will not cause too > > much trouble for mirrors and current users. For some time the old name > > 'gcc-3.4' should be still available as a symlink to 'gcc4'. > > > > Regards > > Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
