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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ?
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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:47:08PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> Hi,
> the last days/weeks there was a repeated discussion of breaking the binary
> compatibility. I read the whole thread on linux-mips but i didnt get the point
> why this has to happen - If we are repairing a real bug for it.
> 
> Could someone please elaborate on whats going on as i feel i missed ~200 mails
> discussion and i dont want to purge the whole debian archive until i know
> what for we actually drop the compatibility.

We don't.

  Ralf