Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#932795: Ethics of FTBFS bug reporting"): > For the specific question of whether a single CPU core is a "reasonable" > build environment, my answer at the moment is "I don't know".
There are two issues here: 1. "Is a 1-cpu system `reasonable' or `supported'" (or whatever) 2. We don't have anywhere to write down the answer to these kind of questions. (That there was nowhere to write down the answer, in particular, nowhere in policy, is I think a large underlying cause of why Santiago is frustrated. Because it means that the answer isn't written down despite it being quite relevant.) I think most people here would be happy to have (1) decided (one way or the other) by the release team. Solving (2) seems like a job for the -policy list, since it's mostly wordsmithing. The detailed questions you ask downthread seem like good questions to be asking to help aswer (1) but maybe now would be a good time to bring in -release ? Ian.