Re: arm (not armel) d-i buildd is over
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> This also raises the question what to do about arm, i.e. whether we
>> can remove support for arm from the kernel, installer and other
>> packages. Riku and Aurelien initially agreed to remove it, but then
>> Riku pointed out that we may have to keep support around in sid if arm
>> wants to take part in lenny+half.
>>
>> I think it makes sense to support arm for lenny+half in terms of the
>> kernel upgrade, but not for the installer (since we don't want any new
>> installations of arm anyway).
>
> As we used the *Lenny* installer for Etch-n-half, supporting new installs
> for Lenny-n-half would not be possible anyway (assuming we'd use the same
> setup, and I currently don't see any reason why not) as it will just be
> impossible to build the installer for arm in Squeeze.
>
> I suggest completely removing any trace of arm from D-I SVN.
I'm at same path as Frans.
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