Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes:

> On 21 Feb 2005 20:54:36 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
> wrote:
>>Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:
>>> - security response time (more builds to do)
>>
>>Which DSAs came out later than they should have because of this
>>supposed delay?  Nor could this possibly slow release.
>
> There are rumours that the noticeable multi-week gap last fall when no
> DSAs were released at all were caused by some buildd failure on one of
> the lesser-userd arches and the security team decided to defer
> advisories until security builds could be released for all arches.
>
> I have a dedicated opinion about this time of service the major arches
> received during this time, but I do not want to voice it here as I am
> only talking about a rumour and I do not want to start yet another
> flame war.
>
> Greetings
> Marc

On the other hand there have been DSAs where some archs where left out
and fixed later iirc.

MfG
        Goswin