Bug#463569: Please re-enable mips and mipsel builds

[Luca Capello]

Hi Thiemo!

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:05:04 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Starting with SBCL 1.0.9, support for several architectures was
> disabled due to continuous instability when building the package
> on the autobuilders.

IIRC the other major reason was that the SBCL maintainer was Peter
alone.  Now that SBCL is under team maintenance [1][2] everyone can step
in and help :-D

> At least for mips and mipsel I believe I fixed the root cause in
> upstream version 1.0.10. I continue to maintain the MIPS port
> upstream and haven't seen the issue re-occur since then.

Thank you for having fixed that.

> Please re-enable mips and mipsel in the debian/control file.
> Note that this can expose said instability once more, as the
> SBCL version to bootstrap from is older than 1.0.10. If this
> is the case I'll upload manually built versions.

Given what I wrote above about team maintenance and if Peter agrees, do
you want to join the Debian Common Lisp Team [1] and take care of SBCL
for mips and mipsel?  Obviously, you can help with other things, too.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://pkg-common-lisp.alioth.debian.org
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sbcl.html
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