Re: update excuses: what does "but foo is screwed anyway"?

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> wrote:

> * out of date on arm: libwings-dev, libwmaker0-dev, wmaker (from
>   0.61.1-4) (but arm is screwed anyway)
>
> what does that mean?  In particular, what relation does that bear with
> the installability (or lack of it) of a package into testing?

The "but ... is screwed anyway" doesn't really mean anything; it certainly 
doesn't bear any direct relation to the installability of the package.  The 
excuses script just says that for all arm packages (and m68k and powerpc I 
think).  Being out of date on a screwed architecture still makes the package 
uninstallable.

p.