On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > b. They are already kept off testing (if there is a regression), > so what's the problem? The problem is that other packages which might depend from a package which is broken on one architecture will not move into testing. If you would keep those packages out of unstable you can be sure that you build your own package based on packages which have all the same version in unstable. This is the relevant bit of the suggestion. See the lot of packages which can not enter testing because a dependency is not fulfilled on a certain architecture.
Kind regards Andreas.