Bug#932508: RM: cross-toolchain-base-mipsen/2 gcc-8-cross-mipsen/2~c2 gcc-defaults-mipsen/1.181.1

Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jul 2019 10:32:24 +0200

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cross-toolchain-base-mipsen is failing its autopkgtest on testing with
the new binutils, and that prevents migrating the new binutils and
everything that depends on it (including updates to gcc-8 and gcc-9).

Formally you could just ignore the test, but that package is just
broken and it doesn't make sense to keep it in that state.  Once the
mips porters fix it, it can then migrate again.

From my knowledge, Matthias already warned the porters about this
potential removal if cross-toolchain-base-mipsen went unfixed, but
nothing happened.

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                        Mattia Rizzolo

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