Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:56:27PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:
> 
> > It does seem prudent to find a way to permit a release on x86 and
> > ppc before all architectures are complete.  Especially if this
> > tactic will give Debian the ability to release more often.  Is it so
> > bad to allow the smaller architectures to lag as long as problems
> > are fixed?
> 
> This would only make sense if we had a complete x86 and ppc release,
> but not a complete mips release.  In practical terms, this doesn't
> happen.  It's not like we do all the x86 work, and then the rest.

I agree completely.  This makes sense iff the lesser used arches
affect release.

As I posted in another message, this discussion about removing arch's
seems to me to be a red herring.