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

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Aug 2025 18:37:45 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation
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Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/303

* Justin B Rye <[email protected]> [250801 17:20]:
>Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>> --- 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.
>
>Elsewhere we've mostly standardised on "serial comma", which would
>mean "Raspberry Pi Zero, Zero W, and 1" - that seems clearer to me.
>Or we might want to reorder it as "Raspberry Pi 1, Zero, and Zero W"
>if that was the order the models appeared in (I assume "1" is the
>2012 version that originally didn't have a version number).

I've applied this and pushed it to https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/303

Lets continue there.

Chris