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

Hi,

On 27/09/2025 01:17, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure who to check this with honestly. For LTS I believe the 
supported vs. built architectures are discussed with the wanna-build 
team. For ELTS this is a separate Freexian infrastructure.

> (Considering it’s dropped from sid, obtaining enough buildd
> capacity for trixie shouldn’t be an issue either.)

IIUC armel builds are done on the arm64 builders, I'm not sure what the 
situation is there.

>> (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…

Wrt e-waste, Raspberry Pi OS still supports a specific armhf-v6 32-bit 
build, based on Debian, that works on all models and that is more 
performant than our armel build on the Pi1:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

Maybe it would make more sense to switch to that?

Cheers!
Sylvain