Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 05:38:57PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
> On 10/26/25 8:21 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Hi
> 
> Hi Bastian,
> 
> > 
> > We never did a real discussion about architecture baselines before, but I think
> > we should do that.  We also don't have any guidelines what we as Debian want to
> > actually support.  But given that we are a general purpose distribution, we
> > have to find a balance.
> > 
> > As a general guidance I would like to aim for a ten to 15 years support range
> > at release time.
> 
> 
> It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide
> availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in production
> environment.

Then an ordinary user would want the 5 to 7 years of support to count
from the end of mass sales, since that may be when he bought it.

Are we supporting users or manufacturers?

-- hendrik