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

To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Date: 21 Feb 2005 23:14:28 -0800
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Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

> Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I demonstrated 
> the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five other arches.

"lack of usage" here means "much rarer usage" of course.  .001 is not
zero.

And your point was supposedly that supporting these archs delays the
release.  Proving they are used by absolutely nobody still doesn't
prove that it delays the release.

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References:
- [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]
  - From: Clint Byrum <cbyrum@spamaps.org>
- Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>
- Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])
  - From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

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