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

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

>> Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> writes:

 > The "but ... is screwed anyway" doesn't really mean anything; it
 > certainly doesn't bear any direct relation to the installability of
 > the package.

 Ok, that's partly what I wanted to know.

 > 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  Being out of date on a screwed architecture still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.

 Then, what exactly does being "screwed" mean here?  Why is it relevant?

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Marcelo