Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

On 10/26/25 8:21 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi

Hi Bastian,

> 
> We never did a real discussion about architecture baselines before, but I think
> we should do that.  We also don't have any guidelines what we as Debian want to
> actually support.  But given that we are a general purpose distribution, we
> have to find a balance.
> 
> As a general guidance I would like to aim for a ten to 15 years support range
> at release time. 


It would be more reasonable to count 7 years since mass sales or wide 
availability ends as hardware typically lasts 5 to 7 years in production 
environment.

Milan