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Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs

Posted by timothy on from the notion-that-could-become-an-idea-and-maybe-a-concept dept.

smerdyakov writes "In this story posted by Andrew Orlowski of the Register Debian Release manager Steve Langasek has announced that support will be dropped for all but four computer architectures. Among the reasons cited for doing this are improving testing coordination, 'a more limber release process' and ultimately a ('hopefully') shorter release cyle. The main architectures to survive will be Intel x86, AMD64, PowerPC and IA-64." Actually, the story says clearly that this is only a proposal at this point, but it's definitely something to watch.

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  1. MOD PARENT +1 FUNNY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That's some funny shizzz

  2. Need of different levels of support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I assume if they drop support, those less common architectures would be supported by some forks.

    I hope there will be a good process of getting the changes from thoses forks bake into Debian proper if this happens.

  3. Re:As anal as Debian is, this is kind of sad. by keesh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Indeed. Gentoo supports everything that debian does and more. Well, except for Hurd.