Re: Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky)

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-release@zugschlus.de>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 03:00:24PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Tue Oct 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM CET, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:59:11AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> > > Planned obsolescence is bad, not good.
> >
> > Still, Debian has to rely on stable support in kernel and toolchain.
> > Once kernel and toolchain stop supporting¹ an architecture there is
> > nothing that Debian could do about that with its limited personpower and
> > resources.
>
> The kernel and/or toolchain dropping support is a valid argument IMO.
> Dropping support because 7/8/10/15 years have passed is not.
> Some 'random' other distro dropping support is (IMO) not a valid
> argument in itself. Maybe their reasons behind dropping it, is.

The problem is that Bastian has a point here in wanting to announce that 
YEARS in advance, but toolchain/kernel usually having a much shorter 
horzion. So, when we want to guess what they're going to do we have to 
be really careful and err to the conservative side.

Greetings
Marc


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