In #850887, the Debian Technical Committee was asked to choose a
solution for #840227, a bug that prevents a significant number of
packages from building on the mips architecture.  Given the upcoming
Stretch freeze, this issue is urgent.

As an interim measure, using its powers under section 6.1.4 of the
Debian Constitution, the Technical Committee overrules Matthias
Klose's decision to revert the NMU of binutils fixing #840227.  The
committee requests Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer to make a new
NMU fixing #840227.  This NMU should not go through the delayed queue.

The committee requests the release team to support the interim nature of this solution and if a permanent solution is adopted before the release of Stretch, to consider including that solution in Stretch even if the freeze criteria would not normally permit such consideration.

In addition, the committee requests the stable release managers for Stretch to consider including the eventual upstream solution for this issue into a stretch update.

This interim decision stands until the release of Stretch, until it is replaced by resolution, or until the binutils maintainer fixes #840227 in some other manner.

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Choice 1:  Approve the Resolution (3:1 majority)

Choice 2: Reject this Interim Measure

Choice 3: Further Discussion