The release characteristics are important regardless of the brake type - it depends on the compound, how the Cf changes with temperature, how fast the brakes heat up, how the change in temperature front to rear affects that Cf change, and then how fast the brakes and pads cool once you release the pedal.
We once went through a brake locking on release issue on an FF where no matter what the driver did to the balance bar, the lockup would change front to rear in an unexpected fashion. That was with the car fitted with LD19s and I believe PFC pads ( I could be wrong on the pads). We refitted the car with narrowed LD20's to fit the 1/4 inch rotors correctly, used the same compound pads, and the problem went away and the driver could feel a big difference in braking consistency - no more lockup on release as well as a better feel to the pedal. What we deduced as the difference between the two setups was the temperatures that the pads were going to during a braking cycle, with the larger LD20 pads going to a slightly lower temperature that stayed just below the temp that caused the CF spike upon release.
With a front disk and rear drum setup, I would expect that the temperature rise and fall of the 2 ends of the car to be very different, with the drums most likely cooling off more slowly than the front disks. Exactly how that will affect the release characteristics and brake balance throughout a lap will in turn depend on the compounds being used.