* Peter 'p2' De Schrijver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 13:45]: > > | - the release architecture must have successfully compiled 98% of the > > | archive's source (excluding architecture-specific packages) > > well, that's just an "the architecture is basically working", so that we > > don't get too many RC-bugs because of architecture-specific issues, and > > also don't get too many packages kept out of testing for not all archs > > being built. Of course, the 98% is not engraved into stone, and might just > > be another arbitrary high number like 97.5%. From looking at the usual > > level where we start noticing problems with testing migrations, a number > > in this range is sane.
> I strongly disagree with this. There is a need for a set of base > packages to work, but it's entirely reasonable to have a release for eg > m68k without KDE or other large package sets. It's not as if debian/m68k > would be unusable without KDE packages for example. You might try to convince me that KDE is architecture-specific :) I hope you can agree that we need to say that "almost all" packages that should be build are build. And I consider 97.5% to be a reasonable level. Also, if we exclude too much, we might start to ask the question why we should do a stable release for an arch that builds only a very minor part of the archive. But the "excluding architecture-specific packages" gives of course some possibilities which packages count and which not. > > | - the release architecture must have a working, tested installer > > I hope that's obvious why. :) > As long as FAI or even raw debootstrap counts, I can agree here. Any installer inside Debian. Of course, we can't tell people "To install Debian, you first need to install Gentoo" :) > I fail to see why less archs allows you to improve the scripts. You can > always improve them, regardless of how many usage they get. I believe > there is sufficient algorithm knowhow in the debian developer community > to solve the scalability problems. Anyone who provides better scalability for britney is welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]