XPost: linux.debian.devel.release, linux.debian.doc
* Sebastian Ramacher <
[email protected]> [250801 15:32]:
On 2025-08-01 14:35:22 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 02:25:03PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
Package: release-notes
I realized that the release-notes list armel as supported arch, but there is
no debian-installer for this arch anymore.
Thank you for the reminder, I thought about this last week but
immediately forgot about it again.
Maybe we should add a sentence about this somewhere?
Thoughts?
I was wondering what the official armel architecture status is now.
Is it in the same boat as i386, or something different?
-release: could you clarify the situation?
armel will be dropped after the trixie release, so forky will release
without armel.
The last discussion of that was in the thread starting at >https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/08/msg00003.html.
Thanks!
So the release-notes could say something like:
--- i/source/issues.rst
+++ w/source/issues.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,23 @@ possible, or retiring the hardware.
`Cross-grading <
https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading>`__ without a
reinstall is a technically possible, but risky, alternative.
+.. _armel_last_release:
+
+Last release for armel
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+From trixie, armel is no longer supported as a regular architecture:
+there is no Debian installer for armel systems, and only Raspberry
+Pi Zero, Zero W and 1 are supported by the kernel packages.
+
+Users running armel systems can upgrade to trixie, provided their
+hardware is supported by the kernel packages, or they use a third-party +kernel.
+
+trixie will be the last release for the armel architecture. Debian +recommends, where possible, reinstalling armel systems as armhf or arm64,
+or retiring the hardware.
+
.. _mips_removed:
MIPS architectures removed
Corrections, comments, insight, etc welcome.
Chris
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