[Sussex] Debian news...

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

Colin Tuckley <colin at tuckley.org> writes:

> Steve Dobson wrote:
> It's the "reliable compile farm" problem. They are thinking of changing the
> list and dropping any arch that does not have a commercially available
> source of spare parts. They had a serious problem recently when 2 of the ARM
> build systems failed, it took a long time to find replacements even though
> they had money to throw at the problem.

Steve was referring to GCC not debian

> Err... not the FSF.

,,, see above...

> Yes, this has been stated. It's one of the things that makes Debian
> different and without it they are "just another distro".

Well, not "just another", it will always be remembered as the distro
that really sorted out the "chain of dependencies" problem.  It's
still very fair to say that without Debian there would be no Gentoo,
Arch or any number of distros and that's not even including those
distros (like Ubuntu) that use the Debian package management system itself.

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Geoff Teale
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