Because they don't want to. William
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 17:30 -0500, Michael Casadevall wrote: > What about simply decoupling mips/mipsel's version numbers so an out of > date package on mips(el) doesn't stall out the rest of the testing. Having > (somewhat) setup britney/update_out to generate testing for m68k, it > should just be a matter of adding of adding mips and mipsels, to the > proper lists in update_out.py. As it stand armel uses this (hence why in > update_excuses it says Ignoring armel dependency). > > As I haven't fully gotten britney running, there could obviously be a big > problem, but it might be a fessible way to allow mips/mipsel to have > testing, and not break everyone else. > Michael > > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:57:03 +0100 > > From: Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS > > buildd backlog. > > Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:26:18 +0000 (UTC) > > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > > > On 02/03/08 at 23:34 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> I have not asked MIPS to be removed from the list of released > >> architectures. I have asked testing migration to be uncoupled from MIPS > >> building while the buildds are suffering. In a previous thread it has > >> been suggested that this operation requires a minimal amount of work. > > > > It requires a minimal amount of work to remove mips from the > > architectures considered for testing transitions. On the other hand, it > > requires a lot of work if we still want to release with mips after that, > > because from that point, testing and testing-mips will start diverging. > > Getting them back in sync will be really hard, and actually, it's likely > > to cause us to release without mips. > > > > So, even if it would be better to have testing be in good state, it's > > not a release blocker yet, and developers should concentrate on fixing > > bugs. Users can use testing + apt pinning. I use that on all my !stable > > systems. > > -- > > | Lucas Nussbaum > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | > > | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
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