Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> added the comment:

The idea with the extension names is to have different names for different 
ABIs. See https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples for the list of ABIs that 
are "known", or documented.

mips-linux-gnu is documented as MIPS32r2+FPXX, which is a different ABI than 
MIPS32r2 apparently, and not compatible, so it should have a different name.

Other architectures like arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabihf have the 
hard/soft difference encode in their GNU triplet name, and apparently nobody 
did that for mips.

One solution would be to define a mips-linux-gnusf Multiarch name, which then 
would be different than the GNU triplet.  Note that there's no "authority" to 
define the Multiarch names, however in most cases the GNU quadruplet without 
the vendor is chosen as the MA name.

Other solutions could be to define no MA name, or go with your solution, just 
ignoring things. I'd still prefer something defining a name for this ABI.

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