[Fwd]: Debian AMD64 Sarge released

Th new debian unstable release will be named Etch. 

----- Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert <joerg( at )debian.org> -----

 > 
 > Hi
 > 
 > Just following the "big" Release we have a small one to announce:
 > Debian AMD64 Port is now (since Wednesday, 8th June 2005) also declared
 > stable.  From now on there will be no changes to this archive, except
 > for point releases which will be coordinated closely with the Debian
 > ones.
 > 
 > CD and DVD images will be made available on cdimage.debian.org, try
 > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ as soon as the
 > images are built, which should be today or tomorrow.
 > 
 > Security Support for this release will be provided by the Debian
 > Security Team via security.debian.org. Our security autobuilder will
 > start this weekend. Should there be any DSA for sarge before that day we
 > will provide it manually until then (but we dont expect this to happen
 > at the moment).
 > 
 > To make this support happen we agreed to some conditions, which
 > include "Only a very minimal set of packages is allowed to be patched
 > for AMD64 support". We achieved this by strict rules for uploads and
 > dropping some packages that need large amounts of patches or work to
 > be done to compile or run on AMD64 systems. We are now down to 8
 > packages that are not in sync with Debian, with candidates like
 > syslinux, linux86 and also base-config/choose-mirror (to use our
 > mirror list). In total, the list of packages removed from our archive
 > is much bigger - a few hundred. We compiled a list of these for the
 > security team to work with, but it may also be useful for other
 > people. It is available under
 > http://amd64.debian.net/docs/package_changes.txt if you want to take a
 > look.
 > 
 > We do plan to support those packages, if there is someone from the
 > porting team or even the maintainers themselves willing to work on
 > it. We will provide a sarge-patched (or similar named) repository in
 > our archive, which will contain most of those packages, patched to
 > work on amd64. But please note: They DO NOT have official security
 > support. Usually the one maintaining the package in this section will
 > keep it uptodate, but if you have some hard security policy - please
 > do not rely on this!
 > 
 > If you visit packages.debian.org and search for a package you will
 > notice (since a few weeks ago) that it also lists the amd64 versions,
 > including links to download the packages from one of our mirrors.
 > This will continue to work for sarge, but may break for short times
 > while amd64 gets integrated into the main Debian archive. If you see
 > that then please be patient.
 > 
 > Now, talk about the future: etch and sid, testing and unstable.  We
 > will continue to track these two releases until AMD64 is in Debian and
 > the buildd stats show that it has built more than 95% of the
 > archive. Around that day we will discontinue our etch and sid support,
 > but will post a short announcement to this list when that happens.
 > (http://buildd.debian.org/stats/)
 > 
 > Other interesting links:
 > 
 > http://amd64.debian.net/docs - contains our release notes for now, will
 >                                get Faq/Howto/Whatever else also.
 > http://amd64.ftbfs.de/       - If you are searching for a build log of a
 >                                package on amd64, this is your place for
 >                                now.
 > 
 > Finally please let me say thank you to all the people who support our
 > architecture by making services and bandwith available to us. We do
 > appreciate your support!
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > bye Joerg
 > > Or write yourself a DFSG-free replacement for that piece of software.
 > Using the copy and paste method from the old source, obscured by 
 > irrelevant changes.



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