New release time?

[Joe Buehler]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> As soon as we release 1.3.23, we should go ahead and rebuild all packages
> under control of at least people on this list within a week.  On
> cygwin-apps we should encourage all maintainers to rebuild as quick as
> possible and we should set a date (+6 months or so) after which all
> non-rebuilt packages are removed from the distro.  This has the
> interesting side effect that we can see which packages have lost their
> maintainers ;-)

Why do the 64 bit changes require package recompiles?  Is something going
to break, or is this for efficiency reasons?

I'm scared -- I have local packages that I don't want to recompile...
-- 
Joe Buehler