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

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

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

> For your convenience, I quote the numbers here again along with a quick
> percentage calculation:
>         files.downloaded  percent
> i386             1285422  70.5079
> all               504789  27.6886
> powerpc            17754   0.9738
> ia64               10111   0.5546
> sparc               3336   0.1830
> arm                  850   0.0466
> alpha                507   0.0278
> hppa                 204   0.0112
> mipsel                91   0.0050
> m68k                  15   0.0008
> mips                   7   0.0004
> s390                   4   0.0002
> total            1823090 100.0000


The only thing this shows is that Debian does not need to mirror s390,
mips, m68k, mipsel, ... all over the world. Those architectures should
be droped from all but a select few _mirrors_. As the ftp-masters have
(second hand) said before, the SCC that is to come after sarge will
address this issue, allowing primary mirrors to drop archs while they
currently must carry all archs.

Dropping those less used archs should clear up enough space for amd64
and other future addons.

MfG
        Goswin