Re: Inquiry about armel support for Debian upgrades post-Trixie

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Our systems in the field run on an armv5 chip (armel architecture) which we
> can't replace with newer boards with a different architecture.
>
> Could you please clarify whether armel will be supported during future
> upgrades from Trixie to Forky (and even Duke)?

After support for Trixie runs out (presumably around 2028), your best
hope would presumably be to see if some group of enthusiasts decided to
try and preserve a Debian-derived distribution specifically for armel,
and if there's no such thing I'd see if maybe OpenWRT still supports it.


        Stefan