Proposal for an interim ballot for mips binutils

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+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.
+
+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