Re: Hardware donation for ppc64el LTS support

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

Hi Timothy,

the business model behind LTS is that the external company Freexian SARL 
sells subscriptions for Debian Long Term Support,[1] and then hires
hourly-paid consultants like me to do the actual work.

Adding ppc64el to LTS is an option you could discuss with Freexian,
but this discussion would be about how much you would have to pay
for buying this service.

LTS builds happen on the regular Debian buildds, I don't think there 
would be any issues on that side regarding adding ppc64el.

Yours
Adrian

[1] https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/


On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 01:31:30PM -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> I just wanted to follow up with this to see if there is anything we can do to extend the ppc64el security builds for Debian?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Timothy Pearson" <tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com>
> > To: "debian-lts" <debian-lts@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2025 12:59:19 PM
> > Subject: Hardware donation for ppc64el LTS support
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > We run a large cluster of OpenPOWER (ppc64el) machines using Debian, and we
> > would like to see a longer security update cycle that is more in line with
> > amd64.  We are willing to donate at least one POWER9 build host to this effort;
> > is this something that would be feasible and help extend the security update
> > lifecycle?
> > 
> > Thank you!