On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Clint Byrum <cbyrum <at> spamaps.org> writes: > > Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below, and > > others, aren't indicative that debian should drop s390, mipsel, and > > maybe hppa from the list of architectures? How about we release for > > i386, sparc, and powerpc, and let the others release on their own > > schedule? This business of supporting 11 architectures and making sure > > they're all 100% right before releasing is just about the worst idea > > ever. > > Still, the hours we maste on fixing, building, maintaining, ... code on > unused platforms is hysterical waste of resources. Resources we don't > really have.
I'd like to see your numbers on how many manhours have been wasted in the past, say, 6 months on fixing code on unused platforms which would have gone into other things had those architectures not been in Debian. - Matt
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