Bug#1110222: release-notes: some words about armel arch?

* Sebastian Ramacher <[email protected]> [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