Chris Metzler wrote:
You're jumping from "we shouldn't be held up by minority distros" to "we shouldn't only support one distro" which I didn't see proposed :)Your sarcasm aside, I've never understood this argument. There are a *zillion* distros out there that only support x86, or x86 + some very small number of other platforms. Debian is one of only a few with a broad range of supported platforms; that's one of the things that makes it different. Why should that be given up? Why in the world do we need *yet another* x86-only distro?
Failing to build from source is an RC bug, so a package which doesn't compile on a supported architecture can hold up sarge, *even if it's never used by anyone on that architecture*.