Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Kevin Mark 

| IIRC the buildds do not have a weight attached to each package to
| determine its order in the buildd queue. Would the introduction of a
| weight, where resource intensive packages get put on the bottom and are
| built at 'slow' periods help?  

This will easily cause problems for those packages's migration to
testing, since there will be out-of-date binaries for slow arches in
the archive.  (Or the release team will have to get the old binaries
removed for said slow architectures.)

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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