Hi, On Friday, 06 Jan 2006, you wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:40:23AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > could the FTP-Team please clairify what the current status of the mirror > > split and the inclusion of AMD64 is? It has been said this will happen > > directly after the release of sarge. Sarge is now 7 month out and (to > > the enduser view) nothing has happened. This is very embarrassing for > > Debian. > > > > I don't like to hear "It will happen" but what the actual current status > > is and where the community can help. > > aj blogged about it here: > > http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/11/16#2005-11-16-dak > > There was also some talk about this during the recent "Archive > architecture qualification" IRC discussion on #debian-tech[1]: > > < Q_> aj: So what still needs to happen for the mirroring changes? > <aj> Q_: work out exactly what mirrors should do; tell mirrors > what they should do; wait for mirrors to do that > [...] > <aj> Q_: there's already a reasonably easy script, it's more the > issue of making it easy for people to find a (eg) m68k mirror > when the country mirror only had i386 eg > > There have also been ongoing discussions about optimizing > apt-ftparchive, but I am not sure whether this is part of the solution > as well. Maybe aj can comment on that.
There have no "official" announcment yet. I find it very embarrassing for Debian not to tell official what still needs to happen. Official is for me a mail to d-d-a. Greetings Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
