Re: Bug#1110222: release-notes: some words about armel arch?
* Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> [250801 15:32]:
On 2025-08-01 14:35:22 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 02:25:03PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Package: release-notes
>
> I realized that the release-notes list armel as supported arch, but there is
> no debian-installer for this arch anymore.
Thank you for the reminder, I thought about this last week but
immediately forgot about it again.
> Maybe we should add a sentence about this somewhere?
>
> Thoughts?
I was wondering what the official armel architecture status is now.
Is it in the same boat as i386, or something different?
-release: could you clarify the situation?
armel will be dropped after the trixie release, so forky will release
without armel.
The last discussion of that was in the thread starting at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/08/msg00003.html.
Thanks!
So the release-notes could say something like:
--- i/source/issues.rst
+++ w/source/issues.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,23 @@ possible, or retiring the hardware.
`Cross-grading <https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading>`__ without a
reinstall is a technically possible, but risky, alternative.
+.. _armel_last_release:
+
+Last release for armel
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+From trixie, armel is no longer supported as a regular architecture:
+there is no Debian installer for armel systems, and only Raspberry
+Pi Zero, Zero W and 1 are supported by the kernel packages.
+
+Users running armel systems can upgrade to trixie, provided their
+hardware is supported by the kernel packages, or they use a third-party
+kernel.
+
+trixie will be the last release for the armel architecture. Debian
+recommends, where possible, reinstalling armel systems as armhf or arm64,
+or retiring the hardware.
+
.. _mips_removed:
MIPS architectures removed
Corrections, comments, insight, etc welcome.
Chris
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