Re: ftp.debian.org: remove armel from forky and unstable

On Fri, 26 Sep 2025, Sylvain Beucler wrote:

> The last ELTS armel support was just dropped with jessie-elts in July, an=
d the
> last LTS armel support for stretch-lts ended in 2022.

Yes.

I=E2=80=99m specifically asking to do {,E}LTS for armel one last time
because it=E2=80=99s a release architecture for trixie and users now
cannot just upgrade to the next release.

Unfortunately I cannot offer funding, as a private individual=E2=80=A6

If indeed underfunded you could at least run the buildds for
armel as well for those fixes that are applied for the other
arches. This would not catch armel-specific issues, but be
better than nothing.

(Considering it=E2=80=99s dropped from sid, obtaining enough buildd
capacity for trixie shouldn=E2=80=99t be an issue either.)

> (Note: AFAIU only Raspberry Pi v1/v2 and Raspberry Pi Zero v1 are
> affected, later models run on arm64.)

Some 2/3 models can run armhf but not arm64, but, yes, this is
a model 1 I got as a gift because it was not in use, and to
prevent, again, e-waste. It runs good enough=E2=80=A6

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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