LWN: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works
LWN: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works
I really hope that this release will work out fine and that it will also demonstrate feasibility of independant arhitecture specific teams doing releases for SCC arhitectures of Debian of post-Sarge.
I don't see OpenOffice.org in the problem package list. Does that mean it works on amd64 now? Should investigate that, but I don't have an amd64 workstation available currently.
I really hope that this release will work out fine and that it will also demonstrate feasibility of independant arhitecture specific teams doing releases for SCC arhitectures of Debian of post-Sarge.
I don't see OpenOffice.org in the problem package list. Does that mean it works on amd64 now? Should investigate that, but I don't have an amd64 workstation available currently.
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Here is the story with OpenOffice.org for amd64.
OpenOffice.org 1.x is not 64bit clean at all not to mention it is lacking asm stubs for x86_64. So OOo is completly excluded from the list of candidates. We didn't list things that will never work.
OOo 2.x promises to fix the 64bit issues and add x86_64 support but that is the future.
What users can do is run the 32bit i386 OOo package under ia64 or amd64 using the ia32-libs package or a chroot.
Why haven't we made a wrapper package like ia32-libs for OOo yet? The package source would be about 300MB building two (ia64/amd64) 150MB debs requireing a full upload for every point release. Do we dare add 600Mb to the mirror pulse for ever OOo upload?
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Muahaha
BSD has support for 64bit computing since allmost year ago...
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